WEST ASIA AND THE USA: THE PEACE PROCESS SINCE CAMP DAVID

In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Heft 297, S. 60-72

Abstract

THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS SINCE CAMP DAVID. THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE AND THE FUTURE STATUS OF JERUSALEM NOW CONSTITUTE THE CORE OF THE ARABISRAELI DISPUTE. BUT THE ARABS ARE NEITHER UNITED AMONG THEMSELVES NOR DO THEY SHARE IDENTICAL VIEWS ON HOW TO SOLVE THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM. THE AUTHOR NOTES THE ABANDONMENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVENESS OF CAMP DAVID, A DECLINE IN US ACITIVISM, STUDIES THE IMPACT OF THE SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN AND THE CARTER DOCTRINE, AND EXAMINES THE IMPACT OF THE FAILURE OF US DIPLOMACY IN LEBANON ON WASHINGTON'S FUTURE ABILITY TO ACT AS A NEUTRAL MEDIATOR IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.