TY - JOUR
AU - Levine, Steven I.
AB - 752 I POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY These two authors ,with Georgy Markus, published Dictatorship over Needs in 1983; it was widely welcomed as a cogent, often penetratin analysi g s of Soviet ­ type societies and thei parti r cular characteristics. It is doubtful if the same wel­ come will be extende to d From Yalta to Glasnost. Stephen White University of Glasgow China ’s Changing Relations with the Middle East by John Calabrese. New York, Pinter Publishers, 1991. 183 pp. $49.00. Until its arms sales to the region garnered international headlines in recent years, China was not usually considered a significant actor in the Middle East. In reality, as Calabrese ’s excellent monograph reminds us, China has been very much involved in the region from the mid-1950s, although its influenc has e never been on a par with that of the superpowers. This excellent addition to the small number of books dealing with China and the Middle East is concise ,substantive, and very well balanced within the limits of its predominantly state-orien ted approach. It is based exclusively on western-language sources, except for those Chines e materials available in English translation. The chapters follow a similar format for each 
TI - China's Changing Relations with the Middle East, by John Calabrese
JF - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2151829
DA - 1991-12-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/china-s-changing-relations-with-the-middle-east-by-john-calabrese-aCNbv0K4c1
SP - 752
EP - 753
VL - 106
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -