Bernard ReichBERNARD REICH, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, and currently serves as a consultant to various U.S. government agencies and is Chairman of Advanced Area Studies (Middle East—Fertile Crescent) atthe Department of State's Foreign Service Institute and an adjunct faculty member of several defense and armed forces schools and institutes. He is a member of the Board of advisory editors of the Middle East Journal and has published widely on the Middle East. His most recent books for Greenwood Press include The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Historical Encyclopedia (forthcoming shortly), curing the Covenant: United States Relations after the Cold War (1995), Iraeli Politics in the 1990s: Key Domestic and Foreign Policy Factors (1991) and Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary (1990), among others. Read More Read Less