Pathways to Peace America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict [Hardcover]

Recent upheavals in the Middle East are challenging long-held assumptions about the dynamics between the United States, the Arab world, and Israel. In Pathways to Peace, today's leading experts explain these changes in the region and their positive implications for the prospect of a sustained peace between Israel and the Arab World.Foreword; J.A.Baker III & S.Berger Introduction; D.C.Kurtzer PART I: THE REGIONAL DIMENSION Israeli-Palestinian Peace Prospects in Regional Context; W.B.Quandt The Arab Peace Initiative; M.Muasher PART II: THE ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN DIMENSIONS Israel's Strategic Dilemmas: Don't Wait for the Dust to Settle; Act Now; A.Gil Palestine as a Partner in Peace; S.A.Abid & S.Hulileh Israel and the US Role; Y.Alpher Constrained and Now Corrosive: How Palestinians View the U.S. Role; G.Khatib The Other Negotiator: The Israeli Public at the Peace Table; G.Gorenberg The Peace Process and the Palestinian National Movement; R.Malley PART III: THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEACE PROCESS Memorandum to the President: Thinking through an Israel-Palestinian Initiative; A.D.Miller Integrating the Top-Down with the Bottom-Up Approach to Israeli-Palestinian Peace; R.M.Danin The Security Conundrum; P.J.Dermer & S.White American Policy, Strategy, and Tactics; D.C.Kurtzer

This is absolutely the right time for a book of essays that reinforce the urgent necessity of lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. This book is the antidote to the fatalism and pessimism; and above all it shows that with will and courage, a solution could be found. These are serious practical essays in policy making. You can agree or disagree with all that is written. But the essential urgency of the case is undeniable and brilliantly set out here. - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1997-2007), Quartet Representative to the Middle East since 2007

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