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Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace
Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain; Caplan, Neil
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Description for Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace
Paperback. The current Arab-Israeli peace process and its historical context Series: Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 452 pages, 37 b&w illus., 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBX; GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Thoroughly updated and expanded, this new edition of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace examines the history of recurrent efforts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict and identifies a pattern of negative negotiating behaviors that seem to repeatedly derail efforts to achieve peace. In a lively and accessible style, Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan examine eight case studies of recent Arab-Israeli diplomatic encounters, from the Egyptian-Israeli peace of 1979 to the beginning of the Obama administration, in light of the historical record. By measuring contemporary diplomatic episodes against the pattern of counterproductive negotiating habits, this book makes possible a coherent comparison of over ... Read moresixty years of Arab-Israeli negotiations and gives readers a framework with which to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of peace-making attempts, past, present, and future.
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Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Series
Indiana Series in Middle East Studies
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
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About Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain; Caplan, Neil
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is a Teaching Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She is the author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948 and many articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Neil Caplan is Scholar-in-Residence at Vanier College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University, both in Montreal, Canada. He is ... Read moreauthor of Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925, Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations to 1956, and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. Show Less
Reviews for Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace
The book is well written, without the usual political science jargon characteristic of books on similar topics. It is well researched and well documented with clear and useful maps.
Journal of Third World Studies
A highly useful text for the study of the Arab-Israel conflict.
Jewish Book World / Jewish Book Council
For an introductory course, ... Read morethe text does a commendable job of presenting the cases and providing an interpretive framework.
Middle East Journal
In an innovative study, two historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict reflect on what their craft can contribute to peacemaking.
Middle East Quarterly
[A] valuable addition to the literature on Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy. . . Kurtzer and Lasensky have a keen sense of what policymakers need to know about the mistakes of the past, and their recommendations are so sensible many have already been put in place by the Obama administration.Reading List 7/22/09
Foreign Affairs
In an innovative study, two historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict reflect on what their craft can contribute to peacemaking.
Middle East Quarterly
The book is well written, without the usual political science jargon characteristic of books on similar topics. It is well researched and well documented with clear and useful maps.
Journal of Third World Studies
One of the striking qualities of this book is the authors' ability to present a wide variety of views by referring to an extensive range of literature. Negotiating Arab–Israeli Peace is thus a highly nuanced account, providing a presentation of the various processes that is not only clear but also deeply analytical. If one were in need of a single book to cover Arab–Israeli diplomacy, this would be a good contender.
Journal of Peace Research
A highly useful text for the study of the Arab-Israel conflict.
Jewish Book World / Jewish Book Council
The new edition includes a 38-page bibliography and 125 related documents available online and coordinated with the text. . . . Recommended.
Choice
For an introductory course, the text does a commendable job of presenting the cases and providing an interpretive framework.
Middle East Journal
The book is clearly and objectively written . . . The strength of this book is its clear, systematic, and well-annotated analysis, pointing out which processes and frameworks were helpful and which harmful, coupled with the easy access to valuable primary sources. Fall 2011
Jewish Book World
[This] is a first-rate study that reflects the authors' familiarity with and understanding of Arab-Israeli relations spread over more than a century of conflict and diplomacy, their gift for presenting complex problems in clear prose, and the thoroughness of their research.
Middle East Book Review
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