The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle EastWhy do international crises seem to occur so often in the Middle East? Former U. S. diplomat Richard B. Parker presents three detailed studies of policy failures that he believes were precipitated by miscalculations on the part of diplomats and of government and military leaders in one or more Middle Eastern countries, the United States, and the former USSR. They are the Soviet Egyptian miscalculation leading to the June 1967 war between Israel and