Third-party mediation and domestic political constraints: US initiatives on Middle East peace and Israeli responses, 1982-1990.
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Title
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Third-party mediation and domestic political constraints: US initiatives on Middle East peace and Israeli responses, 1982-1990.
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Identifier
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AAI9224813
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identifier
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9224813
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Creator
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Flamhaft, Ziva.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Dankwart A. Rustow
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Date
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1992
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, International Law and Relations | History, Modern
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Abstract
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The decade of the 1980s witnessed repeated diplomatic attempts by the United States to continue the Camp David peace process. The most notable such attempts were the 1982 Reagan peace plan, the 1988 Shultz initiative, and the 1989 Baker plan--all involving efforts to influence Israel to begin peace negotiations with Jordan and the Palestinians.;Although the diplomatic and international settings during these attempts seemed fit for negotiations, the internal landscape in Israel did not support negotiations. This was so because of the profound political changes that have occurred in Israel since the Yishuv period, namely the replacement in 1977 of the Labor Party by the Likud as the leading party in Israel, and the emergence of a number of new right-wing parties--a change that is traceable to a religious awakening that occurred in the country in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War.;The main conclusion reached in this dissertation is that third parties cannot choose for the adversary parties the timing for negotiations. Rather, the combatants must determine for themselves when the time for negotiations is ripe. That includes domestic support for a negotiated solution.;Other conclusions concerning third party peace initiatives are: (1) the attainment of peace is rarely an exclusive goal; (2) without existence of a pre-negotiation period, a third party ought not initiate, let alone publicize, any new peace plans; (3) when peace as a primary goal cannot be achieved, third parties can still play a useful role if they limit their goal to the obstruction of negative developments.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
