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Briefly Noted  Book Reviews / Bustan: The Middle East Book Review  () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/187853010X533493 Briefly Noted Yevgeny Primakov, Russia and the Arabs (New-York: Basic Books, ),  pp. ISBN-: x. In  Winston Churchill famously remarked about the foreign policy of the Soviet Union: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Few former Soviet officials fit Churchill’s description better than Yevgeny Primakov. Primakov was for many years the Soviet Union’s chief Middle East expert. He spent several years in the Middle East as an intelligence officer, thinly disguised as a newspaper correspondent; he then headed the Soviet Academy’s Oriental Institute and was catapulted to three senior positions in the new Russia, after the Soviet Union’s collapse: head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, foreign minister, and prime minister. Given this background, Primakov’s Russia and the Arabs could conceivably shed new light on several major events that have proved to be turning points in the Middle East over the past few decades. Unfortunately, while full of tan- talizing anecdotes and perceptive insights, the book does not offer an author- itative http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bustan: The Middle East Book Review Brill

Briefly Noted

Bustan: The Middle East Book Review , Volume 1 (1): 58 – Jan 1, 2010
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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/187853010X533493
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 Book Reviews / Bustan: The Middle East Book Review  () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/187853010X533493 Briefly Noted Yevgeny Primakov, Russia and the Arabs (New-York: Basic Books, ),  pp. ISBN-: x. In  Winston Churchill famously remarked about the foreign policy of the Soviet Union: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Few former Soviet officials fit Churchill’s description better than Yevgeny Primakov. Primakov was for many years the Soviet Union’s chief Middle East expert. He spent several years in the Middle East as an intelligence officer, thinly disguised as a newspaper correspondent; he then headed the Soviet Academy’s Oriental Institute and was catapulted to three senior positions in the new Russia, after the Soviet Union’s collapse: head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, foreign minister, and prime minister. Given this background, Primakov’s Russia and the Arabs could conceivably shed new light on several major events that have proved to be turning points in the Middle East over the past few decades. Unfortunately, while full of tan- talizing anecdotes and perceptive insights, the book does not offer an author- itative

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