Futile Diplomacy: The United Nations, the great powers, and Middle East peacemaking, 1948-1954These two volumes provide a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between the first and second Arab-Israeli wars. Exploiting a range of available archive sources as well as extensive secondary sources, they provide an authoritative analysis of the positions and strategies which the principal parties and the would-be mediators adopted in the elusive search for a stable peace. The author examines the recurring deadlocks in terms of the motives and calculations of the various parties, and reveals how new incentives of pressures offered by outsiders proved incapable of reversing the serious deterioration of Arab-Israeli relations as the region headed for war at Suez. The text of each volume comprises both analytical-historical chapters and a selection of primary documents from archival sources. |
Contents
Documents | ix |
Approaching the Subject | xv |
Historical and Psychological Context 1 | xxvi |
War and Mediation 1948 | 17 |
Egypt and Israel at Rhodes | 34 |
Prenegotiation | 57 |
Manoeuvring at Lausanne | 76 |
The Final Stalemate | 101 |
PCC Paris Conference Autumn 1951 | 162 |
The Paris Conference and the Demise of | 185 |
The United Nations and Direct Negotiations | 212 |
The United Nations Conference that Never Was | 230 |
Conclusion | 257 |
Documents | 279 |
Notes | 301 |
Bibliography | 367 |
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