| Description |
xvi, 426 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 413-414. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- American politics and foreign policy. The role of Congress -- The electoral cycle -- The president and his role -- The pattern of the first year -- The pattern of the second year -- The pattern of the third year -- The pattern of the fourth year -- Conclusion -- Getting started, getting acquainted. The Arab-Israeli conflict in early 1977 -- The Middle East team -- Received wisdom on the Middle East -- Setting the course -- On-the-job education -- Rabin's visit and adventures in public diplomacy -- Carter meets the Arabs -- Conclusion -- Meeting Menachem Begin. Who is Begin? -- Fahd's visit -- Preparing for Begin -- Carter meets Begin -- Vance to the Middle East, August 1977 -- Conclusion -- The unraveling of the grand design. The search for an opening -- Lebanon, settlements, and the PLO -- Preparing for Geneva -- Secret channels -- Carter's second round of personal diplomacy -- Procedures and politics -- Politics to the fore -- Conclusion -- Changing course. Clinging to Geneva -- Sadat's road to Jerusalem -- Washington reassesses -- Begin's plan for home rule -- Negotiations in Ismailiya and Jerusalem -- Conclusion -- Inching toward Camp David. Outline of an American strategy -- Sadat and Carter at Camp David -- To link or not to link -- Pressure on Israel -- Begin's six noes -- A partial retread -- Proposals, planes, and pleas -- Marking time at Leeds Castle -- Carter decides on a summit meeting -- Conclusion -- The first ten days. Preparations for the summit -- The president's briefing book -- At the summit -- Conclusion -- Success. End game : day eleven, September 15, 1978 -- Waffling on the West Bank : day twelve, September 16, 1978 -- The settlements flap -- The finale : day thirteen, September 17, 1978 -- The scorecard -- Interpretations. Post-summit strategies -- Preparing for the next round -- The Blair House talks -- Opening bids -- Mounting pressures -- Vance to the Middle East -- Conclusion -- The treaty. Talks resume -- Camp David II -- Carter and Begin in Washington -- Carter to the Middle East -- Finale -- Signing the peace treaty -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. Camp David and the Palestinian question -- Assessing Carter's role --- Developments since Camp David -- Camp David : model or obstacle? -- A realistic approach to peace -- The American role -- Appendixes. U.N. resolutions 242 and 338 -- Joint communiqué by the governments of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, October 1, 1977 -- President Anwar Sadat's address to the Israeli Knesset, November 20, 1977 -- Egyptian proposal at Camp David -- First draft of the American proposal at Camp David, September 10, 1978 -- President Carter's first draft of the Sinai proposal -- The Camp David accords, September 17, 1978 -- American answers to Jordanian questions, October 1978 -- Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Marcy 26, 1979. |
| Subject |
Israel-Arab War, 1973 -- Peace.
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Camp David Agreements (1978)
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Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (1979 March 26)
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
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Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977-1981.
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| ISBN |
0815772904 |
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9780815772903 |
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0815772890 (paperback) |
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9780815772897 (paperback) |
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