Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, Second Edition

The book is well written, without the usual political science jargon characteristic of books on similar topics. It is well researched and well documented with clear and useful maps. * Journal of Third World Studies * A highly useful text for the study of the Arab-Israel conflict. * Jewish Book World / Jewish Book Council * For an introductory course, the text does a commendable job of presenting the cases and providing an interpretive framework. * Middle East Journal * In an innovative study, two historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict reflect on what their craft can contribute to peacemaking. * Middle East Quarterly * [A] valuable addition to the literature on Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy. . . Kurtzer and Lasensky have a keen sense of what policymakers need to know about the mistakes of the past, and their recommendations are so sensible many have already been put in place by the Obama administration.Reading List 7/22/09 * Foreign Affairs * In an innovative study, two historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict reflect on what their craft can contribute to peacemaking. * Middle East Quarterly * The book is well written, without the usual political science jargon characteristic of books on similar topics. It is well researched and well documented with clear and useful maps. * Journal of Third World Studies * 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 ArabIsraeli 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 ArabIsraeli diplomacy, this would be a good contender. * Journal of Peace Research * A highly useful text for the study of the Arab-Israel conflict. * Jewish Book World / Jewish Book Council * The new edition includes a 38-page bibliography and 125 related documents available online and coordinated with the text. . . . Recommended. * Choice * For an introductory course, the text does a commendable job of presenting the cases and providing an interpretive framework. * Middle East Journal * The book is clearly and objectively written . . . The strength of this book is its clear, systematic, and well-annotated analysis, pointing out which processes and frameworks were helpful and which harmful, coupled with the easy access to valuable primary sources. Fall 2011 * Jewish Book World * [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 *

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is a Teaching Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She is the author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948 and many articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Neil Caplan is Scholar-in-Residence at Vanier College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University, both in Montreal, Canada. He is author of Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925, Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations to 1956, and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories.

List of Maps Preface to the Second Edition List of Abbreviations Introduction. Historical Patterns: Bad Habits Are Hard to Break Part 1. The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Beginnings 1. Hot Wars and a Cold Peace: The Camp David Accords, 19771979 2. Mission Impossible: The 1983 Israel-Lebanon Agreement 3. Premature Peacemaking: The 1987 Hussein-Peres London Document Part 2. The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Madrid and After 4. Setting the Peace Table: The Madrid Conference and Washington Talks, 19911993 5. Out of the Shadows and into the Light: The Jordanian-Israeli Peace Process, 19911994 6. Falling Short of the Heights: Israel and Syria, 19912000 Part 3. The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Oslo 1993 and Beyond 7. Breakthrough: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Oslo Peace Process 8. Breaking Down: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Collapse of Oslo 9. Broken beyond Repair? Camp David II and the Second Intifada Conclusion. Peace as a Process Epilogue. Rebuilding amid the Rubble Appendix A. Timeline Appendix B. Documents Online Notes Bibliography Index