Few features of international relations have so engrossed the great powers and have so heavily influenced the agenda of the United Nations as the relationship between Israel and the Arab States. Now Avi Schlaim sets out the histroy of that relationship from the partition of Palestine and the creation of the State of Isreal through decades of confrontation and war, up until the Oslo accords and the first faint hopes of an eventual accommodation. For this, the definitive account of Israel's relationship with the Arab world from 1948 to 1998, Avi Schlaim has been able to use a massive amount of previously unexplored archive material. The result is an amalgamation of diplomatic, military and cultural history.
Few features of international relations have so engrossed the great powers and have so heavily influenced the agenda of the United Nations as the relationship between Israel and the Arab States. Now Avi Schlaim sets out the histroy of that relationship from the partition of Palestine and the creation of the State of Isreal through decades of confrontation and war, up until the Oslo accords and the first faint hopes of an eventual accommodation. For this, the definitive account of Israel's relationship with the Arab world from 1948 to 1998, Avi Schlaim has been able to use a massive amount of previously unexplored archive material. The result is an amalgamation of diplomatic, military and cultural history.
The emergence of Israel 1947-1949; consolidation 1949-1953; attempts at accommodation 1953-1955; the road to Suez 1955-1957; the alliance of the periphery 1957-1963; poor little Samson 1963-1969; immobilism 1969-1974; disengagement 1974-1977; peace with Egypt 1977-1981; the Lebanese quagmire 1981-1984; political paralysis 1984-1988; stonewalling 1988-1992; the breakthrough 1992-1995; the setback 1995-1996; back to the iron wall 1996-1998.
Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford. His previous books include COLLUSION ACROSS THE JORDAN (1988) and WAR AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1995).
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