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Gamal Abdel Nasser was arguably one of the most influential Arab
leaders in history. As President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970, he
could have achieved a peace agreement with Israel, yet he preferred
to maintain his unique leadership role by affirming pan-Arab
nationalism and championing the liberation of Palestine, a common
euphemism for the destruction of Israel. In that era of Cold War
politics, Nasser brilliantly played Moscow, Washington, and the
United Nations to maximize his bargaining position and sustain his
rule without compromising his core beliefs of Arab unity and
solidarity. Surprisingly, little analysis is found regarding
Nasser's public and private perspectives on peace in the weeks and
months immediately after the 1967 War. Nasser's Peace is a close
examination of how a developing country can rival world powers and
how fluid the definition of "peace" can be. Drawing on recently
declassified primary sources, Michael Sharnoff thoroughly inspects
Nasser's post-war strategy, which he claims was a four-tiered
diplomatic and media effort consisting of his public declarations,
his private diplomatic consultations, the Egyptian media's
propaganda machine, and Egyptian diplomatic efforts. Sharnoff
reveals that Nasser manipulated each tier masterfully, providing
the answers they desired to hear, rather than stating the truth:
that he wished to maintain control of his dictatorship and of his
foothold in the Arab world.
Gamal Abdel Nasser was arguably one of the most influential Arab
leaders in history. As President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970, he
could have achieved a peace agreement with Israel, yet he preferred
to maintain his unique leadership role by affirming pan-Arab
nationalism and championing the liberation of Palestine, a common
euphemism for the destruction of Israel. In that era of Cold War
politics, Nasser brilliantly played Moscow, Washington, and the
United Nations to maximize his bargaining position and sustain his
rule without compromising his core beliefs of Arab unity and
solidarity. Surprisingly, little analysis is found regarding
Nasser's public and private perspectives on peace in the weeks and
months immediately after the 1967 War. Nasser's Peace is a close
examination of how a developing country can rival world powers and
how fluid the definition of "peace" can be. Drawing on recently
declassified primary sources, Michael Sharnoff thoroughly inspects
Nasser's post-war strategy, which he claims was a four-tiered
diplomatic and media effort consisting of his public declarations,
his private diplomatic consultations, the Egyptian media's
propaganda machine, and Egyptian diplomatic efforts. Sharnoff
reveals that Nasser manipulated each tier masterfully, providing
the answers they desired to hear, rather than stating the truth:
that he wished to maintain control of his dictatorship and of his
foothold in the Arab world.
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