Download or read book Sadat and His Statecraft written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sadat and the Art of Statecraft Great Men Dedicated to Peace and Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay examines the 1972-1974 period of Anwar Sadat's leadership as President of Egypt with a focus on his abilities as a statesman and his skill as a practitioner of the art of statecraft. The author shows that Sadat was an adept statesman, particularly during the key policy event of this period: the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War. He successfully created and harnessed this event, using all the means of statecraft, to secure the national interests and objectives he wanted for his country. Though the Arab-Israeli war is one way to highlight Sadat's skill as a statesman, it was the 1973 Arab-Israeli peace that shows the true expertise of Sadat's statecraft, because war was only one tool used by Sadat to reach his overall objectives. In this case the art of war worked closely with the art of diplomacy to fashion a synergistic Egyptian foreign policy that would attain a better state of peace. This examination of the structure and success of Sadat's grand strategy begins by looking at Egypt's national interests and the threats to those interests. Next is an assessment of Sadat's perception of Egyptian power and a look at the opportunities available to him in the context of the environment he faced. The essay assesses Sadat's effectiveness in adapting to the unexpected and marshaling the tools of statecraft to secure a better peace, and presents the lessons others can learn from his example.
Download or read book The Statecraft of Anwar El Sadat and the October War written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the controversy over the utility and meaning of the concept of national interest, there is relatively little dispute that preserving the internal security of a country, its people, territory, and institutions is a basic and unchanging objective of nation states and their leaders, and one pursued with the highest intensity -- in Nuechterlein's terminology a "survival" or "vital" interest. Thus, the recapturing or restoration of Egyptian and Arab lands lost to Israel in the 1967 war was a fundamental national interest in Anwar El-Sadat's mind. However, given Israel's unquestioned military superiority in 1973, a critical assessment of Sadat's decision to begin the October 1973 war should focus on whether his national security strategy set goals that could be accomplished with the resources available to him (i.e., reflected a rational assessment of ends and means). Secondly, given the high costs associated with the use of coercive power, one must question whether Sadat's direct use of military force was necessary to achieve his goals. The answer to both questions appears to be "yes."
Download or read book Anwar Sadat and the October War The Strategy and Statecraft of a Twentieth Century Pharaoh written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategy and statecraft of Anwar Sadat with respect to the October 1973 war with Israel. Sadat's strategy is examined using a classical approach to grand strategy. First, the author discusses the international environment that Sadat faced in 1972 and 1973. Second, he examines the international, domestic, and psychological determinants of power that affected Sadat's strategic thinking. Third, he speculates on how Sadat may have analyzed Egypt's national interests and threats to its national interests, and how he may have selected the objectives he used in formulating his grand strategy. Fourth, he looks at the execution of Sadat's strategy using the traditional tools of statecraft. And finally, he assesses Sadat's overall performance as a grand strategist.
Download or read book Sadat s October War A Road to Peace written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his foresighted statecraft, Anwar el-Sadat, President of Egypt, started the October War, a conflict Egypt could not "win" in the conventional sense, but which would rescue his nation from the untenable position it occupied in 1973. Egypt's situation at that time was characterized by the following: (1) a continuing hostility with Israel because Israel's past wartime successes both stiffened her resolve to insist on settlement terms that her neighbors could not accept, and robbed Egypt (and others) of the flexibility they needed to come to terms with the Israelis; (2) an ineffective and dependent relationship with the Soviet Union; and (3) potential unrest at home because of economic disequilibrium stemming from enormous military expenditures and loss of Suez canal revenues. To his great credit, Sadat, though he was operating from a position of extreme weakness, rectified these problems to the advantage not only of Egypt, but of her region and the rest of the world. The steps he took defied conventional logic. He deliberately cut himself off from the only superpower that would sell him arms, while he began a war he knew he could not win militarily. In doing so, he opened the door for the successful intervention of the United States, which he correctly identified as the only authority capable of balancing regional power by bringing both Egypt and Israel to the negotiating table. Sadat's success stemmed from his correct identification of the real issues at stake and his recognition of Egypt's real priorities.
Download or read book Middle Power Statecraft written by Jonathan H. Ping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Ping's volume establishes a unifying theory for the concept of middle power (MP). MPs are states which have an innate form of statecraft and perceived power as a result of their size. The book presents hybridization theory as a basis for analysis, policy development and prediction of MP statecraft and perceived power. A prerequisite to the founding of hybridization theory is the new statistical method of definition which identifies sixteen MPs of Asia and the Pacific. The volume takes a comparative focus on Indonesia and Malaysia to inform and test hybridization theory, as well as to provide a historical analysis of Southeast Asia from a statecraft and perceived power perspective. It offers researchers and scholars of international relations and international political economy a theory that can be applied to the practical study of all middle sized states, while middle sized states can apply the same theory to enhance their own ability to (re)create their state.
Download or read book Statecraft in the Middle East written by Imad Mansour and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity? Thisbook argues that government policies in both foreign relationsand domestic politics must always be situated within a broaderideational and societal context. Imad Mansour analyses how governments in thecontemporary Middle East have governed internally and acted externally basedon societal narratives, which bring together a variety of ideas about a society'shistory and place in the world. He argues that there is a dominant societalnarrative that acts as a primary building block of statecraft, where statecraftis understood as an ongoing set of local, regional and global state-buildingprocesses. Mansour investigates the ways in which statecraft in the Middle Easthas been guided by narratives through a close historical reading and comparativediscussion of the political activity of six states - Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey,Saudi Arabia and Iran - in the second half of the twentieth century and the earlytwenty-first century. His book demonstrates the analytical power of narrativesin understanding statecraft and explains why governments' decisions need to beunderstood in complex ways.
Download or read book Israeli Statecraft written by Yehezkel Dror and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a comprehensive study of Israeli statecraft, using an interdisciplinary framework to enable an in-depth understanding of its characteristics, challenges, and responses"--
Download or read book A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East written by Linda T. Darling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, "the Circle of Justice" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government’s justice toward the population generates political power, military strength, prosperity, and good administration. This book traces this set of relationships from its earliest appearance in the political writings of the Sumerians through four millennia of Middle Eastern culture. It explores how people conceptualized and acted upon this powerful insight, how they portrayed it in symbol, painting, and story, and how they transmitted it from one regime to the next. Moving towards the modern day, the author shows how, although the Circle of Justice was largely dropped from political discourse, it did not disappear from people’s political culture and expectations of government. The book demonstrates the Circle’s relevance to the Iranian Revolution and the rise of Islamist movements all over the Middle East, and suggests how the concept remains relevant in an age of capitalism. A "must read" for students, policymakers, and ordinary citizens, this book will be an important contribution to the areas of political history, political theory, Middle East studies and Orientalism.
Download or read book Sadat S Jihad written by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Shimon Mendes and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SADATs JIHAD is the fruit of seven years research. The author describes the real reasons, in his opinion, that led the Israel Defense Forces to be utterly surprised in the Yom Kippur War. Israeli Intelligence had concluded, with direct assistance of Sadat himself, that he was illiterate politically and militarily impotent. Admittedly, Sadat ultimately showed himself as a political intellectual and military strategist; a visionary leader, who gazed back 7000 years, yet stared forward into Eternal History. The Egyptian surprise that carried out successfully, conducted by the Egyptian President. Nevertheless, despite the sophisticated brilliant gambit that preceded the war, Israel succeeded to turn the table on Egypt, and Egypt almost suffered a crippling defeat again. Shimon Mendes introduces Anwar al-Sadat as The First Muslim Pharaoh. Within the multiple stratagems that preceded his war, Sadat had chosen to interlace Old and New. Consequently, Israeli Intelligence could not read him. He started the war as a Moslem Caliph and ended the war as a Modern Pharaoh.
Download or read book The Modern Middle East written by Mehran Kamrava and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Writing for a wide audience, Mehran Kamrava takes us from fall of the Ottoman Empire to today, exploring along the way such central issues as the dynamics of economic development, authoritarian endurance, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. For this new, thoroughly revised edition, he has brought the book fully up to date by incorporating events and issues of the past few years. The Modern Middle East now includes information about the June 2009 Iranian presidential elections and their aftermath, changes precipitated so far by the Obama administration, Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2008, the effects of globalization on economic development, and more.
Download or read book A Brief History of Egypt written by Arthur Goldschmidt and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of Egyptian politics, economics, social and cultural developments from ancient times to the present.
Download or read book Building Air Bases in the Negev written by Frank N. Schubert and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Air Bases in the Negev is a remarkable story of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' role supporting national diplomatic initiatives overseas while managing a major construction project in Israel. Frank N. Schubert has written a superbly organized account, tracing from the spring of 1979 to the summer of 1982 the development and completion of two ultramodern air bases at a cost that only exceeded original estimates by less than 3 percent. As Schubert suggests, the air base program helped bring peace between two long-term antagonists--Israel and Egypt. Schubert's work serves as an important case study for analyzing not only engineering project management and construction practices but also demanding sociopolitical, cultural, and business conditions in sovereign foreign lands.
Download or read book Shaping Strategy written by Risa Brooks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure. The most glaring example of this reality is playing out in Iraq today. But what explains why states and their leaders are sometimes so good at strategic assessment--and why they are sometimes so bad at it? Part of the explanation has to do with a state's civil-military relations. In Shaping Strategy, Risa Brooks develops a novel theory of how states' civil-military relations affect strategic assessment during international conflicts. And her conclusions have broad practical importance: to anticipate when states are prone to strategic failure abroad, we must look at how civil-military relations affect the analysis of those strategies at home. Drawing insights from both international relations and comparative politics, Shaping Strategy shows that good strategic assessment depends on civil-military relations that encourage an easy exchange of information and a rigorous analysis of a state's own relative capabilities and strategic environment. Among the diverse case studies the book illuminates, Brooks explains why strategic assessment in Egypt was so poor under Gamal Abdel Nasser prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and why it improved under Anwar Sadat. The book also offers a new perspective on the devastating failure of U.S. planning for the second Iraq war. Brooks argues that this failure, far from being unique, is an example of an assessment pathology to which states commonly succumb.
Download or read book Leadership written by Henry Kissinger and published by Allen Lane. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which he presents them as embodying, to show how it is the combination of character and circumstance which creates history. Kissinger's public experience, personal knowledge and historical perceptions enrich the book with insights and judgements such as only he could make.
Download or read book The Modern Middle East Third Edition written by Mehran Kamrava and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this title offers a classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region.
Download or read book Economic Statecraft written by David A. Baldwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Techniques of statecraft -- What is economic statecraft? -- Thinking about economic statecraft -- Economic statecraft in international thought -- Bargaining with economic statecraft -- National power and economic statecraft -- "Classic cases" reconsidered -- Foreign trade -- Foreign aid -- The legality and morality of economic statecraft -- Conclusion -- Afterword : economic statecraft : continuity and change / Ethan B. Kapstein.
