The Israel-Palestine Conflict - Neil Caplan

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

Contested Histories

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2009
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-7539-5 (ISBN)
95,90 inkl. MwSt
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories offers non-specialist readers insights into the causes and consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A general introduction is followed by a detailed historical overview of the issues that have defined more than a century of political tensions and open hostilities.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates
Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable
Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute
Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove who is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’

"This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and even-handedly between the two narratives, reflecting the parties’ own views without embracing the cause of any party."
–Joseph Nevo, University of Haifa

"An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study that is extremely well-informed, resolutely fair-minded, and filled with thoughtful insights."
–Mark Tessler, University of Michigan

A native of Montreal, Neil Caplan received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since retiring from teaching in 2008 he has held an affiliate position in the History Department of Concordia University and is Scholar-in-Residence at Vanier College, both in Montreal. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and eight books, including Futile Diplomacy, a 4-volume documentary history of Zionist-Arab and Arab-Israeli negotiations, 1913-1956 and (with Laura Z. Eisenberg) Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities. His most recent publication is My Struggle for Peace: The Diary of Moshe Sharett, 1953-1956, co-edited with Yaakov Sharett.

List of Maps. Preface.

Chronology.

Part I Introduction.

1. Problems in Defining the Conflict.

2. Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless.

Part II Histories in Contention.

3. Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict.

4. Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions, 1917–1928.

5. Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929–1939.

6. Shoah, Atzma’ut, Nakba: 1939–1949.

7. Israel and the Arab States, 1949–1973.

8. Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians.

9. From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon.

10. From Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982–2008.

Part III Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab–Israeli Conflict.

11. Writing about the Conflict.

12. Confronting the Obstacles.

Bibliography.

Index.

Reihe/Serie Contesting the Past
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 163 x 236 mm
Gewicht 626 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-4051-7539-7 / 1405175397
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-7539-5 / 9781405175395
Zustand Neuware
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