Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities (Indiana Series in Arab & Islamic Studies) - Softcover

Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain; Caplan, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025321159X ISBN 13: 9780253211590

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1998

Synopsis

What factors have led to the failure of efforts at resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict? What patterns of negotiating behavior hold more promise for advancing peace in the Middle East? "Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace" offers a well-informed, up-to-date view of attempts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. It focuses on key negotiations from the Camp David agreements to the Oslo accords and concludes with an analysis of the Netanyahu government's negotiating tactics.Moving beyond strict historical chronology, Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan construct a characterization of past negotiating practices by identifying the constellation of prior experiences, purposes, motives, timing, and psychological factors involved in each situation. The authors point to recurring factors that seem to doom negotiations and illuminate patterns that break the cycle of failure and hold more promise for moving toward an enduring peace. A generous selection of documents and a sampling of political cartoons contribute to this unique and thought-provoking presentation.

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Review

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

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

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

In this second edition, Eisenberg (history, Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and Caplan (history, Concordia Univ., Canada) begin (as in the first edition) with an account of early-19th-century Arab-Jewish negotiations. They end with President Obama's belief that his vision of Middle Eastern peace is compatible with Muslim concerns and interests. The history of these peace efforts, they claim, reveals seven reoccurring areas of diplomatic difficulty, such as previous experience in negotiating, psychological factors affecting leaders and followers, and the role of third-party involvement. Several peace efforts, beginning with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978 through the 1993 Oslo Accords, are examined in detail by considering these seven areas of difficulty. The authors assert that past peace negotiations failed to take into account one or more of the seven characteristics. Original chapters were updated and reflect new information and scholarship since the first edition 12 years ago. The new edition includes a 38-page bibliography and 125 related documents available online and coordinated with the text. A series of illustrative political cartoons is integrated throughout the text. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers, undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty. -- ChoiceD. Peretz, emeritus, SUNY at Binghamton, February 2011

"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"

"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"

"The new edition includes a 38-page bibliography and 125 related documents available online and coordinated with the text.... Recommended." Choice"

"A highly useful text for the study of the Arab-Israel conflict." Jewish Book World / Jewish Book Council, reviewing a previous edition or volume"

"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"

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 025321159X
• ISBN 13: 9780253211590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288