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The long armistice : UN peacekeeping and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-1960
- Title
- The long armistice : UN peacekeeping and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-1960 / Nathan A. Pelcovits.
- Author
- Pelcovits, Nathan A. (Nathan Albert), 1912-1997.
- Publication
- Boulder : Westview Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS119.7 .P443 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 264 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Drawing on previously, untapped documents, interviews with key actors, and his own experiences in the Department of State, Nathan Pelcovits takes a fresh look at the impact of UN intervention, as peacekeeper and peacemaker on the Arab-Israeli conflict during the formative years between 1948 and 1960. He examines the reasons behind the UN assumption of a quasi-custodial role in the dispute and how it is that Israel and the Arab states have come to hold diametrically opposed views of the value, of engaging the UN as intermediary, with the UN-Israel relationship cooling into one of mutual suspicion and mistrust. Most relevant to the current peace process, Pelcovits explains why UN action shifted early in the game from an ambitious effort at peaceful settlement to "keeping" the peace of a long armistice."--BOOK JACKET. "Pelcovits argues that the wounds of the formative years have affected the dynamic of the peace process to this day. The UN has been accorded a marginal role in the negotiations - ceremonial and passive - and UN peacekeepers are not likely to be enlisted as guarantors of the settlement."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- United Nations > Palestine
- United Nations > Armed Forces > Middle East
- United Nations
- Vereinte Nationen
- United Nations > Eretz Israel
- Conference on Disarmament
- 1948-1967
- Arab-Israeli conflict > 1948-1967
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 > Armistices
- Sinai Campaign, 1956
- Armistices
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Armed Forces
- Friedensbemühung
- Nahostkonflikt
- Arabisch-Israëlisch conflict
- Vredesoperaties
- Verenigde Naties
- Jewish-Arab relations > History > 1948-1967
- Palestine
- Geschichte 1948-1960
- Middle East
- Middle East > Palestine
- Israel > History > War of Independence, 1948-1949
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-253) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Samuel W. Lewis -- 1. The Fateful Year -- 1948-1949 -- 2. From Peacemaking to Peacekeeping -- 3. The Armistice Regime Erodes, 1952-1955 -- 4. The Egyptian Front, 1955-1956 -- 5. After Suez: Conditions of Withdrawal -- 6. Enforcing the Restored Armistice -- 7. Guardians of the Arab-Israeli Stalemate.
- ISBN
- 0813384834
- 9780813384832
- LCCN
- 93019519
- OCLC
- ocm27975336
- 27975336
- SCSB-1996340
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library