Preface -- Introduction: the Cold War in the Middle East, 1967-73 / Nigel J. Ashton -- The Cold War and the Six Day War: U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli Crisis of June 1967 / Peter L. Hahn -- The politics of stalemate: the Nixon administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973 / Salim Yaqub -- The Cold War and the Soviet attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict / Galia Golan -- Israel's traumatic pre-1967 war experience and its implications for Israel's foreign policy decision-making in the post-war period / Zaki Shalom -- Military/political means/ends: Egyptian decision making in the war of attrition / Laura M. James -- How American and Israeli intelligence failed to estimate the Soviet intervention in the war of attrition / Dima P. Adamsky -- The origins of a misnomer: the "expulsion of Soviet advisers" from Egypt in 1972 / Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez -- The "Big Lie" and the "Great Betrayal": explaining the British collapse in Aden / Spencer Mawby -- Cold war, hot war and civil war: King Hussein and Jordan's regional role -- 1967-1973 / Nigel J. Ashton