The Arab-Israeli Conflict

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Features

• The book provides an ideal starting place for students who need to get to grips quickly with this complex situation.

• Highly structured with sections covering the background, a chronological account of major conflicts, the peace process itself, and an overall assessment.

• A Documents section provides students with an opportunity to study primary source material and reinforces the key points in the text.

• The quality and authority is indicated by the fact that the British Foreign Office give copies to all members of staff who visit the region for the first time.

New to this Edition

• Covers a number of crucial events have occured: the death of Hafez al-Asad in Syria and transition to his son Bashar, the transition in the Jordanian monarchy, the rise and fall of Ehud Barak in Israel, the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada and the current efforts for peace.

• Chapter 9 The Middle East Peace Process  has been divided into three separate chapters to reflect the importance of the on-going peace process.

• Chapter 10 Towards Conflict Resolution. has been completely reworked in light of the changes that have taken place.

• The Document section has been completely updated,

Table of Contents

PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1. The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

PART TWO: WARS AND PEACE

2. The 1948 War
3. The 1956 Suez-Sinai Campaign
4.. The 1967 Six Day War
5. The 1973 October War
6. The Egyptian- Israeli Peace Process
7. The 1982 Lebanon War
8. The Intifada

PART THREE: THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
9. From Madrid to the second Intifada: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations10. Israeli Palestinian Negotiations
11. Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, 1994-2007 

PART FOUR: ASSESSMENT
12. Towards Conflict Resolution

PART FIVE: DOCUMENTS

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Kirsten E. Schulze

In this fully revised new edition, Kirsten Schulze brings us to a new understanding of the causes, course and consequences of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Schulze analyses the dynamics of the violence and explores the numerous attempts at resolving the conflict. She assesses why, in the cases of Israel-Egypt in 1978 and Israel-Jordan in 1994, negotiations succeeded in bringing about a lasting peace and why, in the cases of Israel, and the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon, they failed to do so.  Written in a clear and accessible style, this fully updated second edition:

·         Traces the origins of the conflict from their first intellectual roots in the 19th century.

·         Examines the actions and aims of the competing nationalist movements during the period of the British Mandate which led to the creation of the state of Israel.

·         Outlines and analyses each of the Arab-Israeli conflicts from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948  to the 2006 Lebanon war and the on-going, second Palestinian uprising

With a diverse collection of documents and a Chronology, Glossary, Guide to Further Reading, and a Who’s Who summarizing the careers and contributions of the main figures, this book is absolutely vital to understanding the current Israeli-Palestinian violence, the intra-Palestinian rift between Hamas and Fatah, and why the Arab-Israeli conflict has become the centre of Muslim politics, both violent and non-violent, across the world.

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