|
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups
|
Buy Now
The Global Offensive - The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,346
Discovery Miles 13 460
|
|
|
The Global Offensive - The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in International History
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
In 1968, a ragtag group of Palestinian guerrillas burst onto the
world stage as part of a global offensive that combined
controversial armed operations, diplomacy, and revolutionary
politics. In the following years, the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) forced the question of Palestine to the
forefront of the world's attention and cement its status as the
sole legitimate representative of a nation of people striving for
statehood. While their spectacular acts of revolutionary violence -
hijackings, guerrilla attacks, suicide operations - seized
headlines and made the PLO the face of "international terrorism" in
the 1970s, it would be the organization's diplomatic campaign that
would propel it to prominence in the global arena. By the middle
years of the decade, the PLO would stand beside Vietnamese, Cuban,
Algerian, and South African guerrilla fighters at the vanguard of a
new generation of revolutionaries in the Third World. More than
just a subplot in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian
struggle sat the juncture of a critical phase in the Cold War and
the wave of revolutions that swept through the Third World in the
1960s. Using Arabic sources and recently declassified U.S.
documents, The Global Offensive returns the PLO's story to its
international context. As the PLO gained both prestige and infamy,
leaders in both the United States and the Soviet Union hastened to
come to terms with this new force in Middle Eastern affairs.
Fearing the PLO's potential to revolutionize the Arab world and
project armed violence across a global spectrum, American leaders
faced the choice of establishing diplomatic relations with the
organization or crafting a containment policy for a new generation
of Arab revolutionaries. Their decisions-along with those of
Palestinian, Arab, and Israeli leaders-would have dramatic
implications into the twenty-first century and help to remake the
art of revolution and the structure of global power in the
late-Cold War world and beyond. However, despite its sweeping
victories in the international system, the Palestinian liberation
struggle would not gain statehood in the twentieth century.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
(3)
