Elusive Peace

Elusive Peace

Author: PENGUIN GROUP (UK)

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-09-29

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0141906138

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Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international community. So where did it all go wrong? How did it end, less than two years later, in the total failure of Barak's peace efforts, his defeat at the polls and ejection from office? How did he open the way not to peace, but to Ariel Sharon? Drawing on exclusive interviews with all the major international figures involved, this book traces the history of the Middle East peace process from Barak's election, through the peace talks at Camp David to the current Road Map. It illuminates the characters of Clinton, Arafat, Sharon and many others, and offers many insights into one of the most complex political political situations in the world today.


The Missing Peace

The Missing Peace

Author: Dennis Ross

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 9780374529802

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The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written.


The Much Too Promised Land

The Much Too Promised Land

Author: Aaron David Miller

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2008-12-30

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0553384147

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For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today. Here is a look at the peace process from a place at the negotiation table, filled with behind-the-scenes strategy, colorful anecdotes and equally colorful characters, and new interviews with presidents, secretaries of state, and key Arab and Israeli leaders. Honest, critical, and often controversial, Miller’s insider’s account offers a brilliant new analysis of the problem of Arab-Israeli peace and how it still might be solved.


Middle East Dilemma

Middle East Dilemma

Author: Michael C. Hudson

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780231111393

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From the unification of North and South Yemen, to the struggle for Mahgreb unity, and the experiences of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, this book presents a complex portrait of the history and prospects for Arab integration.


Thirteen Days in September

Thirteen Days in September

Author: Lawrence Wright

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0804170029

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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, The Daily Beast, St. Louis Post-Dispatch In September 1978, three world leaders—Menachem Begin of Israel, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and U.S. president Jimmy Carter—met at Camp David to broker a peace agreement between the two Middle East nations. During the thirteen-day conference, Begin and Sadat got into screaming matches and had to be physically separated; both attempted to walk away multiple times. Yet, by the end, a treaty had been forged—one that has quietly stood for more than three decades, proving that peace in the Middle East is possible. Wright combines politics, scripture, and the participants’ personal histories into a compelling narrative of the fragile peace process. Begin was an Orthodox Jew whose parents had perished in the Holocaust; Sadat was a pious Muslim inspired since boyhood by stories of martyrdom; Carter, who knew the Bible by heart, was driven by his faith to pursue a treaty, even as his advisers warned him of the political cost. Wright reveals an extraordinary moment of lifelong enemies working together—and the profound difficulties inherent in the process. Thirteen Days in September is a timely revisiting of this diplomatic triumph and an inside look at how peace is made.


The Fifty Years War

The Fifty Years War

Author: Jihan El-Tahri

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1998-03-05

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0141937157

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Since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, the region has been the scene of fierce power struggles, injustice and tragic events - a situation which persists to this day. Now for the first time, an Israeli-Arab author collaboration is tackling one of the world's most controversial situations. Published to accompany a six-part BBC television series by the makers of the award-winning DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA, this myth-breaking book draws on candid interviews with key protagonists in the struggles - many of whom have never before spoken out - to reveal behind-the-scenes events and put the record straight. This is a definitive insiders' account of war and peace in the Middle East.


The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

Author: Ian J. Bickerton

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780170244183

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Positioned at the intersections of faiths and continents, of competing global powers and nationalisms peace in the Middle East has been elusive from the mid-20th century to the present day. Balanced and measured in its assessments, this student book explores the origins of the conflicts in the modern Middle East from the time of the inter-war mandates to the early 21st century. It considers the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Persian Gulf wars, Syria and Lebanon.