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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE TWO PERSPECTIVES ON IRANIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- 1 The "Pariah" Syndrome: The Complexities of the Iranian Predicament -- 2 Religious Dogma and the Economic and Political Imperatives of Iranian Foreign Policy -- PART TWO IRAN AND ITS NON-ARAB NEIGHBORS -- 3 Relations with Pakistan and India -- 4 Iran and Turkey: Permanent Revolution or Islamism in One Country? -- PART THREE IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION -- 5 Iran and the Arab World -- 6 Iran's Relations with Israel, Syria, and Lebanon -- PART FOUR FOCUS ON THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR -- 7 Iran and the War: From Stalemate to Cease-fire -- 8 The Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War -- PART FIVE IRAN AND THE SUPERPOWERS -- 9 Double Demons: Cultural Impedance in U.S.-Iranian Understanding -- 10 The Soviet Union and Iran: Changing Relations in the Gorbachev Era -- PART SIX CONCLUSION -- 11 The Internal Struggle, the Rushdie Affair, and the Prospects for the Future -- Index.

This is an analysis of the major strategic minerals (sometimes called strategic materials), including some of the precious metals, which are vital to the Western economies. It focuses primarily on Soviet strategic minerals policies and examines the conflicting hypotheses for and against a resource war waged by the Soviet Union. The conclusions reached on the strength of the evidence so far is that Soviet policies have been chiefly economic and motivated by economic self-interest ; the Soviet Union is seen as an eager competitor for markets to acquire hard currency and not as a power eager to deprive the West of critical resources. A case is also made for the increasing importance of materials science, ocean mining and substitution, which is likely to make the West, including the USSR, invulnerable to supply disruptions in the future.

Summary in English. Emphasis is on production and export-import trade.