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A Lost Peace - Great Power Politics and the Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967–1979 (Hardcover)
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A Lost Peace - Great Power Politics and the Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967–1979 (Hardcover)
Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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In A Lost Peace, Galen Jackson rewrites an important chapter in the
history of the middle period of the Cold War, changing how we think
about the Arab-Israeli conflict. During the June 1967 Middle East
war, Israeli forces seized the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip
from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank and
East Jerusalem from Jordan. This conflict was followed, in October
1973, by a joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Israel, which threatened
to drag the United States and the Soviet Union into a confrontation
even though the superpowers had seemingly embraced the idea of
détente. This conflict contributed significantly to the ensuing
deterioration of US-Soviet relations. The standard explanation for
why détente failed is that the Soviet Union, driven mainly by its
Communist ideology, pursued a highly aggressive foreign policy
during the 1970s. In the Middle East specifically, the conventional
wisdom is that the Soviets played a destabilizing role by
encouraging the Arabs in their conflict with Israel in an effort to
undermine the US position in the region for Cold War gain. Jackson
challenges standard accounts of this period, demonstrating that the
United States sought to exploit the Soviet Union in the Middle
East, despite repeated entreaties from USSR leaders that the
superpowers cooperate to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli
settlement. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now available to
scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and the Soviet
Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East peace during
the 1970s.
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