Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Oslo and the Lessons of Failure --- Perspectives, Predicaments, Prospects (Peace Politics in the Middle East) - Hardcover

9781903900093: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Oslo and the Lessons of Failure --- Perspectives, Predicaments, Prospects (Peace Politics in the Middle East)

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ISBN 10: 1903900093 ISBN 13: 9781903900093

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2002

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A full length assessment of what went wrong with the Oslo peace process -- a process that began in euphoria and degenerated into disaster. Contents: A Fragile Peace: Could a ''Race to the Bottom'' Have Been Avoided?; The Pursuit of Israeli--Palestinian Peace: A Retrospective; Ending the Conflict: Can the Parties Afford It?; Domestic Israeli Politics and the Conflict; Foundering Illusions: The Demise of the Oslo Process; Islamic Perspectives on the Oslo Process; From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?; Why Did Oslo Fail?: Lessons for the Future; The Oslo Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown; The Middle East Peace Process -- Where to Next?; A Fragile Peace: Are There Only Lessons of Failure?; The Contributors; Index.

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Review

"The contributions vividly demonstrate current contradictions: the Palestinians hoped that 'structure', i.e. a state, would emerge; the US and Israel appeared interested only in 'process', i.e. the war against terrorism." -- Choice. "This volume presents a broad range of political perspectives on the Oslo process, from left-wing Israelis to an Islamist Palestinain who describes how the 'very existence of 'Israel' is considered illegal' from an 'Islamist point of view'. The book makes for interesting reading, partly because each one of the commentators has a different view of what the Accords required and what the best way is to move forward." -- Michigan Law Review.

About the Author

Mustafa Abu Sway, Professor and Director of the Islamic Research Center, Al Quds University, is an eminent authority on the Islamic position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. * Yossi Ben-Aharon, as Israeli ambassador and former Deputy Director General of the Foreign Ministry, has been involved in the key Arab-Israeli negotiations of the 1980s/1990s. * Abraham Diskin, formerly Chairman of the Political Science Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was advisor to several Israeli prime ministers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Knesset. * Manuel Hassassian is Professor of International Relation and Executive Vice-President of Bethlehem University. He has been extensively involved in the peace process (now as Head of the Jerusalem Task Force). * Aaron D. Miller was Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator for Arab-Israeli Negotiations at the State Department; he has served as an advisor to four Secretaries of State, and has helped formulate US policy on the Middle East. * Ron Pundak played a decisive role in the secret track of unofficial negotiations that culminated in the Oslo Accords, and advised on the blueprint for Final Status Negotiations. * Robert L. Rothstein is Harvey Picker Professor of International Relations at Colgate University. He recently edited After the Peace: Resistance and Reconciliation, the product of an earlier Colgate conference on peace processes in several major conflicts. * Moshe Ma'oz is Professor Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Research Associate of the Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. * Ziad Abu Zayyad is Minister of Jerusalem Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority. He is co-editor and founder of the Palestine-Israeli Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, and has been involved in almost all of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in the last decade. * Khalil Shikaki is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah. He is widely quoted on public opinion, Palestinian Authority governance, and Israeli-Palestinian second-track negotiations.

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