Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities - Softcover

Caplan, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025321159X ISBN 13: 9780253211590

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1998

Synopsis

""In an innovative study, two historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict reflect on what their craft can contribute to peacemaking."" -- Middle East Quarterly

""A fine overview of the troubled Arab-Israeli negotiations since Camp David, filled with sound analysis and a wealth of documentary material. Students and diplomats alike will benefit from this thoughtful study."" -- William B. Quandt, Byrd Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

""This timely book... will be invaluable for students of Middle East international relations and for policy makers who seek a mutually acceptable resolution of this protracted conflict."" -- Michael Brecher, McGill University

""No matter where one stands on the issues, this valuable work commends itself to students, peace makers, and anyone concerned about the Arab-Israeli conflict and its peaceful resolution."" -- Philip Mattar, Institute for Palestine Studies

.."". Eisenberg and Caplan offer the reader lessons of the past and sound guidance for the present and the future.... a well-researched and well-written book."" -- Itamar Rabinovich, Tel-Aviv University

What must change before the Arab-Israeli conflict is resolved diplomatically? By illuminating recurring factors that seem to doom peacemaking, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace offers a fresh interpretation of how, when, and why the process does and does not work and points to diplomatic strategies that may produce an enduring peace.

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About the Author

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Visiting Associate Professor in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948.Neil Caplan teaches in the Humanities Department at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada. His publications include Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925, The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking, and Futile Democracy, a multi-volume documentary history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Review

As with the first edition, the second edition of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace is extremely well-written. It covers the latest significant details in the negotiations and will be very useful as a resource for researchers and students alike. (Rex Brynen McGill University)

Nothing in my library comes close to Eisenberg and Caplan's unique and balanced treatment of the peace process. Their book is more essential today than when it was first published and contains many lessons that the parties could still benefit from. (Philip Mattar editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa)

One of the best presentations of how the Middle East not only can be but should be approached from a theoretical perspective. (Glenn Palmer Penn State University)

In separating the Arab-Israeli from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this second edition clarifies important differences in their nature, dyanmics, and degrees of intractability. (Christina W. Michelmore Chatham University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 025321159X
• ISBN 13: 9780253211590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272