The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Oslo and the Lessons of Failure: Perspectives, Predicaments, Prospects

by Rothstein, Robert L.; Ma'oz, Moshe; Shikaki, Khalil

• ISBN13: 9781845190583
• ISBN10: 1845190580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

Summary

This book, the third in the series Studies in Peace Politics in the Middle East, is an expert assessment on what went wrong with the Oslo peace process - a process that began in euphoria and degenerated into disaster. The contributors provide a wide-ranging, albeit very different, retrospective of the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace, and analysis of how negotiations should best proceed from here on. Contributors include: Mustafa Abu Sway, Professor and Director of the Islamic Research Center, Al Quds University, an eminent authority on the Islamic position on the Arab-Israeli conflict; Yossi Ben-Aharon, an Israeli ambassador and former Deputy Director General of the Foreign Ministry; Abraham Diskin, former Chairman of the Political Science Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and advisor to several Israeli prime ministers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Knesset; Manuel Hassassian, Professor of International Relations and Executive Vice-President of Bethlehem

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xvii
A Fragile Peace: Could a ``Race to the Bottom'' Have Been Avoided?	1	(30)
Robert L. Rothstein
The Pursuit of Israeli--Palestinian Peace: A Retrospective	31	(6)
Aaron D. Miller
Ending the Conflict: Can the Parties Afford It?	37	(10)
Khalil Shikaki
Domestic Israeli Politics and the Conflict	47	(12)
Abraham Diskin
Foundering Illusions: The Demise of the Oslo Process	59	(19)
Yossi Ben-Aharon
Islamic Perspectives on the Oslo Process	78	(10)
Mustafa Abu Sway
From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?	88	(26)
Ron Pundak
Why Did Oslo Fail?: Lessons for the Future	114	(19)
Manuel Hassassian
The Oslo Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown	133	(16)
Moshe Ma'oz
The Middle East Peace Process -- Where to Next?	149	(12)
Ziad Abu Zayyad
A Fragile Peace: Are There Only Lessons of Failure?	161	(9)
Robert L. Rothstein
The Contributors	170	(2)
Index	172