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Part 1 American perspectives: the United stataes and its allies - ahistorical perspective, Thomas A. Keaney; post Cold-War allies - the illusionof unipolarity, Ted Hopf; US military capabilities in the post-Cold War era -implications for Middle East Allies, Michael Eisenstadt. Part 2 Europe: theAnglo-American defense partnership, Christopher Choker; perspectives onGerman security and defense policy, Karl-Heinz Kamp. Part 3 Middle East:Turkey and the United States - ambivalent allies, Kemal Kirisci; the UnitedStates and the Gulf States - an allaince in need, Joseph Kostiner; Israel andthe United States - can the special relationship survive the new strategicenvironment?, Gerald M. Steinberg. Part 4 Asia: the Japan-US alliance - a keyto the peace and stability of the Asia Pacific region, Toshiyuki Shakata; thechanging ROK-US alliance - from containment to cooperative engagement,Yong-Sup Han; from strategic ambiguity to "Three No's" - the changing natureof US policy toward Taiwan, Philip Y.M. Yang; the US-Australian alliance,Desmond Ball.