Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, 322 pages. DJ has wear and soiling. Endpaper map. Maps. Footnotes. Includes Preface, and Notes on Arabic Transliteration and Usage, as well as Appendices, Selected Bibliography, Biographical Sketches, and Index. Chapters include Wartime Commitments,1914-18; The Difficulties of Peace, 1919; Failure of the Paris Peace Conference; The Year of Violence, 1920; London: Prelude to Cairo; The Cairo Conference, March, 1921; Iraq; Palestine; Transjordan; and Perspective and Conclusions. The author received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and was the editor of the Journal of International Affairs. Drawing extensively on previously unavailable documents of the British government as well as private papers and memoirs, the author uses the Cairo Conference as the focal point for a detailed study of Britain's involvement in Middle Eastern affairs. After tracing the background that led to the conference, Aaron Klieman describes and analyzes the deliberations themselves, and assesses the effect of the decisions taken on Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, and Arabia. He demonstrates that many of the contemporary problems of the Middle East--political instability, disillusion with democratic institutions, inter-Arab rivalry, the Arab-Israeli conflict--originated in this earlier, decisive period. More