| Sect. I | | Europe and the US in the Middle East | | |
| 1 | | Britain and the Middle East: In Pursuit of Eternal Interests by Mark Sedgwick | | 3 |
| 2 | | Old Interests, New Purpose: French Foreign Policy in the Middle East by Daniel W. Kuthy | | 27 |
| 3 | | Germany and the Middle East: The Construction of Moral Interests by Jack Covarrubias and Chris White | | 47 |
| 4 | | US-Russian Competition in the Middle East: Convergences and Divergences in Foreign Security Policy by Mira Duric and Tom Lansford | | 63 |
| Sect. II | | The Far East and the US in the Middle East | | |
| 5 | | Chinas Middle East Policy Since the Post-Mao Reform by Chunlong Lu and Jie Chen | | 81 |
| 6 | | Japan between the United States and the Middle East by George Ehrhardt | | 97 |
| 7 | | At the Crossroads of Foreign Policy Decisions: India in the Middle East by Anna Rulska and David Jackson | | 109 |
| Sect. III | | The Middle East and the US | | |
| 8 | | The United States and Israel: The Implications of Alignment by Daniel J. Graeber | | 123 |
| 9 | | Realpolitik and Religion: The Twin Sources of Saudi Arabias Foreign Policy by Evan Campbell and Steve A. Yetiv | | 137 |
| 10 | | The Centrality of Egypt to the Future of the Greater Middle East by B. J. Jordan and Robert J. Pauly, Jr. | | 157 |
| 11 | | Iran and the Middle East: The Pursuit of Security and Legitimacy in the American Age by Vaughn P. Shannon | | 171 |
| Sect. IV | | International Organizations and the US in the Middle East | | |
| 12 | | NATO and the Middle East: The Road to Greater Engagement by Chris Zambelis and Eva Svobodova | | 197 |
| 13 | | The United States and the Arab League by Jack Kalpakian | | 217 |
| 14 | | The United States and the United Nations: Partnership for Peace? by Tom Lansford | | 229 |