The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Gregory S Mahler

. .

Auteur(s) : Gregory S Mahler

Editeur : Taylor & Francis

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 416.0

Expédition : 608

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.3

ISBN : 9781138047686

Résumé :
The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most protracted and contentious disputes in modern history. This wide-ranging textbook examines the diplomatic and historical setting within which the conflict developed, from both the Israeli and Palestinian perspectives, and gives a comprehensive overview of the peace process. The new edition includes a fully revised and updated introduction and a wider selection of documents up to the first year of the Trump presidency. Enabling students to easily access and study original documents through the supportive framework of a textbook,?The Arab-Israeli Conflict: presents over eighty of the most important and widely cited documents in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict presents these documents in an edited form to highlight key elements includes an introductory chapter which sets the context for the study of the history of the area covers a comprehensive historical period, ranging from the 19th?Century to the present day incorporates a wide range of pedagogical aids: original documents, maps and boxed sections. This important textbook is an essential aid for courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East peace process, and will be an invaluable reference tool for all students of political science, Middle East studies and history....

Biographie:

Gregory S. Mahler is Academic Dean Emeritus and Research Professor of Politics at Earlham College. He received his B.A. degree from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University. He has authored or edited over thirty books in the areas of comparative politics and Israeli and Middle Eastern Politics, and his academic interests include political institutions and democratic government.

...

Sommaire:

PART I: INTRODUCTION

PART II: FROM HERZL (1896) TO RECOGNITION AS A STATE (1949)

1. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (1896):

2. The Basle Program, Resolutions of the First Zionist Congress (August 30, 1897)

3. Sir Henry McMahon: The McMahon Letter (October 24, 1915)

4. The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)

5. The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917)

6. The Weizmann-Feisal Agreement (January 3, 1919)

7. The White Paper of 1922 (June, 1922) (The Churchill White Paper)

8. The Mandate for Palestine (July 24, 1922)

9. British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Letter to Chaim Weizmann (February 13, 1931)

10. The Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission): Report (July 24, 1937)

11. British Government: Policy Statement Against Partition (November 11, 1938)

12. British Government: The White Paper (May 17, 1939)

13. Zionist Reaction to the White Paper (1939)

14. The Biltmore Program: Towards a Jewish State (May 11, 1942)

15. Arab Of?ce Report to Anglo-American Committee (March, 1946)

16. U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181, The Partition of Palestine (November 29, 1947)

17. Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)

18. Creation of a Conciliation Commission, General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) (December 11, 1948)

19. Admission of Israel to the United Nations, General Assembly Resolution 273 (May 11, 1949)

PART III: FROM RECOGNITION (1949) THROUGH THE START OF A PEACE PROCESS (1978)

20. General Assembly Resolution 303 (IV): Palestine: Question of an International Regime for the Jerusalem Area and the Protection of the Holy Places (December, 1949)

21. State of Israel: Law of Return (July, 1950)

22. U.N. Security Council: Resolution 95, Concerning . . . the Passage of Ships Through the Suez Canal (September 1, 1951)

23. Palestine National Authority: Palestine Liberation Organization Draft Constitution (December, 1963)

24. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban: Speech to the Security Council of the United Nations (June 6, 1967)

25. Protection of Holy Places Law (June 27, 1967)

26. The Khartoum Resolutions (September 1, 1967)

27. U.N. Security Council: Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967)

28. The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council (July 1-17, 1968)

29. The Seven Points of Fatah (January, 1969)

30. U.N. Security Council: Resolution 338 (October 22, 1973)

31. Palestine National Council: Resolutions at the 12th Session of the Palestine National Council (June, 1974)

32. Interim Agreement Between Israel and Egypt (September 1, 1975)

33. Statement to the Knesset by President Anwar al Sadat (November 20, 1977)

34. Statement to the Knesset by Prime Minister Menachem Begin (November 20, 1977)

35. Six-Point Program of the Palestine Liberation Organization (December 4, 1977)

36. The Camp David Accords (September 17, 1978)

PART IV: FROM ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN PEACE (1979) TO ISRAELI-JORDANIAN PEACE (1994)

37. Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt (March 26, 1979)

38. Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (July, 1980)

39. Saudi Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz: The Fahd Plan (August 7, 1981)

40. Golan Heights Law (December 14, 1981)

41. Prime Minister Menachem Begin: The Wars of No Alternative and Operation Peace for the Galilee (August 8, 1982)

42. Agreement Between Israel and Lebanon (May 17, 1983)

43. Palestine National Council: Declaration of Independence (November 15, 1988)

44. Israel's Peace Initiative (May 14, 1989)

45. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker's Five-Point Plan (Oct...