Historians are usually most comfortable addressing issues of the past. Nevertheless, an analysis of the Gulf states and the U.S. policy of dual containment is well-suited to a historian, since – as far as those states are concerned — dual containment really is history.

Full Text: “The Gulf States and the End of Dual Containment,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 2 (September 1998), pp. 21-26.