The Us, Israel, and Egypt: Diplomacy in the Shadow of Attrition, 1969-70

ISBN-13: 9781138319974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 270 str.

Yehuda U. Blanga

Opis

This book traces the web of relations between Egypt and the United States during the War of Attrition; a conflict between Israel and Egypt from late 1969 to early 1970.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. An Internal Shock: Egypt after the 1967 War  2. Nasser is Waiting for Nixon: First Attempts to Achieve an Accord  3. Why Are They Shooting?  4. A Table for Four: De Gaulle and the Multi-Power Diplomatic Initiatives to Resolve the Middle East Crisis  5. The Sisco-Dobrynin Talks: The Failure of the Effort to Draft a Joint Peace Plan  6. Downhill: The Failure of the October Initiative and the First Rogers Plan  7. The Day After: From Failed Peace Proposals to a Cease-Fire Initiative  8. "The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!": The Soviet Involvement in the War of Attrition  9. The Second Rogers Plan: The Initiative to End the War of Attrition  10. Different Perspectives: The Violation of the Cease-Fire  Summary and Conclusions  Bibliography

O autorze

Yehuda U. Blanga is a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on the military and political involvement of the superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, in the Middle East and on Egyptian and Syrian policies (regime, military, and society).