Balancing Act
Subtitle: Us Foreign Policy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Us Foreign Policy and Conflict in the Islamic World)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780754635918
Subjects: United States; Political Science; International Relations - General; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Middle East - General; 21st century; History of specific subjects; International relations; Petroleum & oil industries; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; USA; Warfare & Defence; Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign relations; Middle East
First sentence: The Arab-Israeli conflict has been described as a 'war without end'.1
Table of contents: value: Introduction; Context of conflict: perspectives on the Arab-Israeli conflict; Present at the creation: US policy to 1949; Evolution of a 'Special Relationship': 1949–1967; War and peace: 1967–1979; From Cold War to Gulf War: new threats and new opportunities, 1979–1991; Implementing Oslo: 1991–2000; After Oslo: the politics of peace and terror, 2000–2002; Conclusion: assessing the balance sheet; Bibliography; Index