Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace
Patterns, Problems, Possibilities
Neil Caplan author Laura Zittrain Eisenberg author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Publishing:1st Apr '25
£36.00
This title is due to be published on 1st April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Fifteen years since the publication of its second edition, this foundational text in the history of Arab-Israeli peacemaking endeavors has been updated to include developments from the past twenty-five years.
Thoroughly revised and expanded, the third edition of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace examines the history of recurrent efforts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict since the 1970s and identifies a pattern of negative negotiating behaviors that repeatedly derail peacemaking efforts. In addition to updating all of the book's existing chapters with post-2010 sources and developments, authors Eisenberg and Caplan have added new chapters on the Arab Peace Initiative, the Annapolis Conference, the Kerry mission, and the Abraham Accords, as well as a conclusion that questions several core notions regarding the nature of the conflict, the possibility of its resolution, Arab-Israeli "normalization," and the viability of the two-state solution. An epilogue extends the book's framework into present-day crises in the region, specifically Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. A companion website comprises nine appendices, among them 145 primary source documents, expanded notes, links to websites for maps, data and analysis, peace activities, and additional visual and documentary sources. Also online is a robust instructor's guide offering supplementary resources and ideas for assignments, research and classroom exercises, all of which draw upon and complement the themes running throughout the text.
By measuring contemporary diplomatic episodes against the historical pattern of counterproductive negotiating habits, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace makes possible a coherent comparison of some eighty years of Arab-Israeli negotiations and offers readers a framework with which to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of peace-making attempts—past, present, and future.
"Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace is in a class of its own elucidating the reasons underlying decades of diplomatic failure in the search for peace. It is a book to be enjoyed by expert practitioners, well-read scholars, inexperienced undergraduates, and interested readers in the public. The authors are to be congratulated for such a notable achievement."—Frederic C. Hof, author of Beyond the Boundary: Lebanon, Israel, and the Challenge of Change
"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
"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
"[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
ISBN: 9780253072559
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494 pages
third edition