Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Winter 2008
DIPLOMACY UNDER COLONIALISM,
1897-1948
• The Zionist vision of the path to statehood: the
clash between political and practical Zionism
• The Arab vision of Palestine—competing
perspectives (Greater Syria, Greater Jordan,
indigenous Palestine)
• Diplomacy during WWII
• The diplomacy of the UN Partition Plan
• Prewar diplomacy: Israel-Jordan, Inter-Arab
POSTWAR DIPLOMACY: THE
POLITICS OF SUSPICION, 1949-67
• Israeli-Jordanian Negotiations
• The Husni Za’im proposal
• Israeli-Egyptian secret negotiations
• Israeli-Jordanian negotiations, 1963-67
• Why did diplomacy fail in the 1949-67
period?
Post 1967 Diplomacy:
Between Frustration and
Arrogance
• The Israeli lone peace proposal of June
19, 1967: the unintended initiative and
its strange outcome
• Arab reaction to the 1967 war: the
Khartoum summit
• The diplomacy of U.N. Resolution 242.
• The Sadat initiatives and Israeli
reactions
• The 1973 war as a jump start for
diplomacy: Why diplomacy failed?
Post-1973 Diplomacy:
From Step-by-Step to
Separate Peace
• Diplomacy through stalemate—How the
US managed the Arab-Israeli conflict
• The logic of step-by-step diplomacy
• Comprehensive vs. separate peace—the
Arab dilemma
• Comprehensive vs. separate peace—the
Israeli dilemma
• Surprise diplomacy—Sadat’s strategy
FROM CAMP DAVID I TO CAMP
DAVID II: GETTING THE
PALESTINIANS IN
• A model for peacemakers? Camp David I in
perspective
• Saving the Israelis and Palestinians from themselves:
how third parties got diplomacy going—Jordan, the
United States, and Iraq
• Track II diplomacy and the transformation of Israeli-
Palestinian relations
• Oslo and after: Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy in the
1990s
• Israeli-Syrian negotiations, 1992-2000
• The Camp David II controversy
• Beyond Camp David—the Roadmap and other
intangibles
Mediation concerns a range of activities by a party
external to a conflict between two states aimed at
managing or resolving the conflict by peaceful means.
Mediation No. of
Outcome Cases Pct.
Failure 17 45.95%
Partial Success 12 32.43%
Success 8 21.62%
Total 37 100.00%
Mediator Outcome
Failure Partial Success