MIRON REZUN, born in Israel, is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has published widely on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in Etudes Internationales, the International Journal, Queen's Quarterly, and Problems of Communism. He has edited a book called Iran at the Crossroads: Global Relations in a Turbulent Decade (1990). He has also published Post-Khomeini Iran and the New Gulf War (1991), Intrigue and War in Southwest Asia (Praeger, 1991), and Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars (Praeger, 1992).