The disputes will eventually be decided, as all such disputes
are, on a basis of power politics and not of any abstract consideration of justice. But, for what it is worth, Mr. Kelly's array of well-marshalled and well-documented facts makes it clear that the Sa`udi claim to Buraimi has no basis at all, either in international law or equity.
Professor Bernard Lewis, in The Middle East and the West, takes us over ground which has been extensively, if not always profoundly, covered by innumerable European and Ameri- can, and Middle Eastern, writers whose books, more often than not, are redolent of the journ- alist's date-line rather than the scholar's lamp. Professor Lewis is a scholar; his knowledge of Arabic and Turkish literature, and of. Middle East history, illuminates this book, which con- sists of the texts of six lectures on various aspects of the impact of the West on the Turkish, Arab and Persian civilisations. Altogether a dis- tinguished contribution to a subject which, from both sides of the hill, usually produces more heat than light.
JOHN MARI 'WE
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