The Arab—Israeli conflict
In: International affairs, Band 72, Heft 4, S. 846-846
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: International affairs, Band 72, Heft 4, S. 846-846
ISSN: 1468-2346
World Affairs Online
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 624-627
ISSN: 0020-7438
In: Bulletin of peace proposals: to motivate research, to inspire future oriented thinking, to promote activities for peace, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 291-384
ISSN: 0007-5035
World Affairs Online
In: Introduction to International Politics, S. 131-144
Comprehensive and analytical, A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict presents a balanced and impartial overview of this centuries-old struggle. Taking a clear and chronological approach to this complex subject, and placing events in the context of their longer-term histories, Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the course of its history, bringing the coverage up to date with a twenty-first-century perspective. Starting in the nineteenth century, the book moves through the British Mandate, World War II, and the proclamation of the state of Israel, the widening and deepening conflict and attempts at a peace process, the impacts of 9/11 and the Arab Spring, and finally it discusses events to the end of 2021. In a completely revised Conclusion the authors examine how we interpret many of the startling, rapidly changing, and somewhat unpredictable events of the last five years. Illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, updated maps, tables, and chronologies for each chapter, together with extensive relevant and up-to-date documentary sources, further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is the ideal textbook for all students of the history of the modern Middle East.
In: Middle East quarterly, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 3-12
ISSN: 1073-9467
A review of the pattern of hostilities between the Arabs & Israelis over the last 50 years shows that the Arab side has slowly reassessed Israel, while the Israelis have reduced their demands & again taken up their earlier land-for-peace approach. As long as the conflict was viewed in existential terms -- as Israel's destruction or the Palestinian Arabs' nonexistence -- it was unsolvable. The deadlock persisted for decades, because the Arab side completely rejected compromise. Solutions proposed by the Arab states to achieve stability & progress during the period -- eg, militancy in Iraq or the expulsion of Western influence in Iran -- often made matters worse. Terrorism also damaged the Palestinian cause. After a number of defeats, & the realization that all other options had been exhausted, the Palestinian Liberation Organization strategy of destroying Israel was reappraised, but not until 1991. Israel was ready for peace, & the US then stepped in to define the conflict in a solvable way. The lesson is that zero-sum existential conflicts can be potentially resolvable if leaders differentiate between real chances & unacceptable risks in solutions. M. Pflum
The intellectual and physical setting -- Competing peoples and ideologies -- The convergence -- The Palestine mandate -- Independence and al-Nakba -- Cold wars and the Middle East matrix -- The earthquake -- The road to 1979 -- Mutual fallouts: Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- A decade of hope -- Breakdown... -- ...and reconstruction?
In: British journal of international studies, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 97-118
ISSN: 2053-597X
A Head-on collision between two national movements; a clash between Western and Oriental cultures; disputes over territories, borders, maritime rights, property and refugees; intense mutual suspicion engendered by a long and tortuous history of strife; highly distorted images of the adversary; a chronically unstable pattern of regional politics; the intrusion of Great Power rivalry and a spiralling arms race: these are only some of the ingredients which account for the complexity and uniqueness of the Arab-Israeli conflict and make the Middle East the most volatile and explosive sub-system of the international political system. Here, in Michael Howard's phrase, is a "hell-brew to end all hell-brews". The problem is a political scientist's paradise; a statesman's nightmare; and, for the military specialist, a matter for grisly, but absorbing concern.
In: The Journal of social, political and economic studies, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 305-316
ISSN: 0278-839X, 0193-5941
Israel has very limited indigenous hydrocarbon resources and is located next to the energy-rich Persian Gulf region. This study is divided into two parts. In the first part Israel's energy outlook is profiled. Specifically, the paper examines the country's oil and natural gas exploration and potential. In the second part the seemingly successful negotiations to export natural gas from Egypt to Israel is discussed. This is followed by an analysis of the efforts to export the Iraqi oil via Israel (the Mosul-Haifa pipeline) and the attempt to revive the scheme in the aftermath of the 2003 war in Iraq. Finally, the article examines the shortlived experience in exporting Iranian oil to Israel under the Shah and the current status of the Trans-Israel pipeline. The study suggests that a regional energy-cooperation would benefit all parties and international energy markets. However, such cooperation is unlikely in the near future. Adapted from the source document.
In: The Middle East journal, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 105-107
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: The Middle East journal, Band 68, Heft 4, S. 604
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: The Middle East journal, Band 68, Heft 1, S. 137
ISSN: 0026-3141