Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Avraham Sela is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University, Israel.

• PrefaceList of Abbreviations I. Nation, State, and Regional Conflict 1. Introduction: Explaining Regional Arab Politics2. The Regional Arab System3. The Emergence of a Regional Conflict SystemII. The Politics of Escalation—From the "Arab Cold War" to the June 1967 War 4. For the Sake of Palestine: "Unity of Action"5. Collapse of Summitry and the Road to WarIII. The Politics of Reappraisal and Adaptation 6. A Turning Point in Khartoum7. The Beleaguered Nasir8. The Road to the October WarIV. The Politics of the Peace Process 9. The Divisive Peace Diplomacy10. The Lebanese Civil War: Brokers and Pawns11. The Burden of Arab Consensus: Egypt-Israel Peace Accord and Arab Response V. The Decade of Fragmentation and Disarray The Arab World in the 1980s: An Overview12. The Iraq-Syria Conflict and the Gulf War13. Crossroads of the Lebanon War14. In Search of Another Peace ProcessVI. The Dialectic of Force and Diplomacy Between the Palestinian and Gulf Crises15. The Intifada and New Regional Alignment16. The Kuwait Crisis and the Peace Process: Toward A New Middle East Order?ConclusionAppendicesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"Unlike other studies … this book accentuates the shifting powers from the Arab League to Arab summitry as an instrument of regional dialogue … This is the best book yet written on inter-Arab alignments, the historical drift of Arab summitry, the fading of Pan-Arabism since the 1967 war, and the evolution toward Middle East peace." — American Historical Review"…an excellent book … meticulously detailed and documented…" — SHOFAR"This is an extremely complete account of the public record of the diplomatic history of the Arab world with regard to Israel and inter-Arab conflict. It's meticulous in its presentation of the available record regarding the historical drift of Arab summitry." — Ellis Goldberg, University of Washington