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Book Stabilizing the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book Stabilizing the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Ḳobi Mikhaʼel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Future of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book Future of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Yossi Alpher and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Project on Arab-Israeli Futures is a research effort designed to anticipate and assess obstacles and opportunities facing the peace process over the next 5 to 10 years. Stepping back from the day-to-day ebb and flow of events in the Middle East, this project examines broader, ¿over-the-horizon¿ developments that could foreclose future options or offer new opportunities for peace. The effort brings together U.S., Israeli, and Arab researchers. This report identifies which local, regional, and international trends will have the greatest impact on Israel¿s relationships with Palestinians in the coming years. Author Yossi (Joseph) Alpher is a former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Book Measures of Effectiveness

Download or read book Measures of Effectiveness written by Ann Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue is the first in a re-designed and peer-reviewed series of the Pearson Papers that provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can openly engage with the complexities of evolving peace operations. In light of the international community?s large investment in peace operations, measuring their effectiveness has become an important topic in the public discourse. The first re-designed and peer-reviewed issue of the Pearson Papers, then, focuses on the theme: ?Measures of Effectiveness: Peace Operations and Beyond.? In the first paper in this issue, ?Our Seven Wars in Afghanistan: Progress under the SWORD Model,? Captain N.N. French assesses progress in Afghanistan using the SWORD model?s seven strategic dimensions. Following his trends-based analyses, French contends that chances for success in Afghanistan are improving and he recommends ways to further progress. Dr. Sarah Jane Meharg?s paper, ?Measuring the Effectiveness of Reconstruction and Stabilization Activities,? argues for the need to include social and cultural narratives, rather than traditional military statistics, when analyzing reconstruction efforts. ?What to Measure in Peace Operations? by Joseph Schumacher analyzes peace operations from a theoretical angle, presenting a combination of macro and impact evaluation approaches. In the final paper, ?Israeli-Palestinian Bi-level Conflict Zone and Its Implications for International Intervention: What Went Wrong and What Can be Done?? authors Dr. Kobi Michael and David Kellen use the Israel-Palestine conflict to illustrate the need to redefine conceptual approaches to addressing conflict while focusing on stabilization and reconstruction efforts. -- Publisher's Description.

Book The Costs of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book The Costs of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by C. Ross Anthony and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the past century, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has been a defining feature of the Middle East. Despite billions of dollars expended to support, oppose, or seek to resolve it, the conflict has endured for decades, with periodic violent eruptions, of which the Israel-Gaza confrontation in the summer of 2014 is only the most recent. This executive summary highlights findings from a study by a team of RAND researchers that estimates the net costs and benefits over the next ten years of five alternative trajectories a two-state solution, coordinated unilateral withdrawal, uncoordinated unilateral withdrawal, nonviolent resistance, and violent uprising compared with the costs and benefits of a continuing impasse that evolves in accordance with present trends. The analysis focuses on economic costs related to the conflict, including the economic costs of security. In addition, intangible costs are briefly examined, and the costs of each scenario to the international community have been calculated. The study's focus emerged from an extensive scoping exercise designed to identify how RAND's objective, fact-based approach might promote fruitful policy discussion. The overarching goal is to give all parties comprehensive, reliable information about available choices and their expected costs and consequences. Seven key findings were identified: A two-state solution provides by far the best economic outcomes for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israelis would gain over two times more than the Palestinians in absolute terms $123 billion versus $50 billion over ten years. But the Palestinians would gain more proportionately, with average per capita income increasing by approximately 36 percent over what it would have been in 2024, versus 5 percent for the average Israeli. A return to violence would have profoundly negative economic consequences for both Palestinians and Israelis; per capita gross domestic product would fall by 46 percent in the West Bank and Gaza and by 10 percent in Israel by 2024. In most scenarios, the value of economic opportunities gained or lost by both parties is much larger than expected changes in direct costs. Unilateral withdrawal by Israel from the West Bank would impose large economic costs on Israelis unless the international community shoulders a substantial portion of the costs of relocating settlers. Intangible factors, such as each party's security and sovereignty aspirations, are critical considerations in understanding and resolving the impasse. Taking advantage of the economic opportunities of a two-state solution would require substantial investments from the public and private sectors of the international community and from both parties.--

Book Blind Spot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Khaled Elgindy
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2019-04-02
  • ISBN : 0815731566
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Blind Spot written by Khaled Elgindy and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the history of US-Palestinian relations The United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution. Yet American attempts to broker an end to the conflict have repeatedly come up short. At the center of these failures lay two critical factors: Israeli power and Palestinian politics. While both Israelis and Palestinians undoubtedly share much of the blame, one also cannot escape the role of the United States, as the sole mediator in the process, in these repeated failures. American peacemaking efforts ultimately ran aground as a result of Washington’s unwillingness to confront Israel’s ever-deepening occupation or to come to grips with the realities of internal Palestinian politics. In particular, the book looks at the interplay between the U.S.-led peace process and internal Palestinian politics—namely, how a badly flawed peace process helped to weaken Palestinian leaders and institutions and how an increasingly dysfunctional Palestinian leadership, in turn, hindered prospects for a diplomatic resolution. Thus, while the peace process was not necessarily doomed to fail, Washington’s management of the process, with its built-in blind spot to Israeli power and Palestinian politics, made failure far more likely than a negotiated breakthrough. Shaped by the pressures of American domestic politics and the special relationship with Israel, Washington’s distinctive “blind spot” to Israeli power and Palestinian politics has deep historical roots, dating back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate. The size of the blind spot has varied over the years and from one administration to another, but it is always present.

Book State Expansion and Conflict

Download or read book State Expansion and Conflict written by Oren Barak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed comparison of Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, two expanded states which have experienced conflict and stability domestically and in their mutual relations.

Book Kings and Presidents

Download or read book Kings and Presidents written by Bruce Riedel and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of the often-fraught U.S.-Saudi relationship Saudi Arabia and the United States have been partners since 1943, when President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs. Subsequent U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those kings and their successors—setting the tone for a special partnership between an absolute monarchy with a unique Islamic identity and the world's most powerful democracy. Although based in large part on economic interests, the U.S.-Saudi relationship has rarely been smooth. Differences over Israel have caused friction since the early days, and ambiguities about Saudi involvement—or lack of it—in the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States continue to haunt the relationship. Now, both countries have new, still-to be-tested leaders in President Trump and King Salman. Bruce Riedel for decades has followed these kings and presidents during his career at the CIA, the White House, and Brookings. This book offers an insider's account of the U.S.-Saudi relationship, with unique insights. Using declassified documents, memoirs by both Saudis and Americans, and eyewitness accounts, this book takes the reader inside the royal palaces, the holy cities, and the White House to gain an understanding of this complex partnership.

Book Caught in the Middle East

Download or read book Caught in the Middle East written by Peter L. Hahn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postwar American officials desired, in principle, to promote Arab-Israeli peace in order to stabilize the Middle East. This book shows how, during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the desire for peace was not always an American priority. Instead, they consistently gave more weight to their determination to contain the Soviet Union.

Book Public Opinion in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book Public Opinion in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Jacob Shamir and published by United States Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book The Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Yehuda Lukacs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of documents and statements of the position of the parties involved in attempts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Book Watershed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen C. Lonergan
  • Publisher : IDRC
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 1552500977
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Watershed written by Stephen C. Lonergan and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watershed describes the water crisis faced by Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories today; a crisis that will have much to do with the design and the success of the current peace proposals. The authors examine the geopolitics of water in the region, the economic importance, problems of water supply and water quality, and regional conflicts over water.

Book New Issues in Mediating the Israel Palestine Deadlock

Download or read book New Issues in Mediating the Israel Palestine Deadlock written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American efforts continue to help resolve intractable Israel-Palestine conflict. I. William Zartman, Amira Schiff, Galia Golan, Walid Salem, and Barry Steiner, seek here to enhance the American contribution to a two-state Israel-Palestine solution.

Book Resolving the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book Resolving the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Moises F. Salinas and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of papers and keynote presentations that were delivered at a conference called "Pathways to Peace," which was held in March of 2008.

Book One State  Two States

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benny Morris
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-04-28
  • ISBN : 0300156049
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book One State Two States written by Benny Morris and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What is so striking about Morris’s work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone’s prejudices, least of all his own,” David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris’s 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. With the same commitment to objectivity that has consistently characterized his approach, Morris now turns his attention to the present-day legacy of the events of 1948 and the concrete options for the future of Palestine and Israel. The book scrutinizes the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability and practicality of proposed solutions in the light of complicated and acrimonious realities. Throughout his groundbreaking career, Morris has reshaped understanding of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Here, once again, he arrives at a new way of thinking about the discord, injecting a ray of hope in a region where it is most sorely needed.

Book The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Download or read book The Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Y. Bar-Siman-Tov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the September 2000 confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, examining the characteristics of a confrontation that developed into a protracted low-intensity conflict. Topics addressed include the strategies adopted by both sides, the reasons for the failure of moderation, and the phenomenon of unilateral disengagement.

Book Land  Labor and the Origins of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict  1882 1914

Download or read book Land Labor and the Origins of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict 1882 1914 written by Gershon Shafir and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-08-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

Book Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction

Download or read book Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction written by United States Institute of Peace and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Chabrol's second film follows the fortunes of two cousins: Charles, a hard-working student who has arrived in Paris from his small hometown; and Paul, the dedicated hedonist who puts him up. Despite their differences in temperament, the two young men strike up a close friendship, until an attractive woman comes between them.