Publishing Institution: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs / Topic: Conflict Resolution

Author:: Zalman Shoval
Publication Date:: 07-2000
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: Prime Minister Ehud Barak's tenure started out with almost everything going his way. He had what was often, though misleadingly, described as a "landslide victory" in the 1999 elections (though, in truth, Jewish voters gave him only a slim 3.2 percent majority over Netanyahu - compared to the almost 12 percent margin by which Netanyahu had defeated Peres in the previous elections). Nonetheless, it is true that Barak achieved better electoral results than most other prime ministers in Israeli history. As a result, no Israeli prime minister in recent memory had begun his term with a greater degree of goodwill from different segments of the population - including many who had voted for the other candidate.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, International Relations, Diplomacy, and Politics
Political Geography:: Middle East and Israel

Author:: Dore Gold
Publication Date:: 03-2000
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: Three basic conditions prevailed when the Arab-Israeli peace process began in 1991 in Madrid and accelerated in 1993 at Oslo. First, the Soviet Union crumbled and eventually collapsed, removing what had since 1955 been the strategic backbone of the Arab military option against the State of Israel. Second, Iraq was militarily crushed and under both UN sanctions and monitoring, and was therefore removed from the political and military calculus of relations between Israel and the Arab world. Third, Iran was still recovering from its eight-year war with Iraq and was far from ready to have an impact in the Middle East. Together, these three conditions created a unique moment of Pax Americana, maintained not just by virtue of American power, but by the consent of its potential rivals.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Arms Control and Proliferation, United Nations, War, and Sanctions
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Iran, Middle East, Israel, and Soviet Union

Author:: Gerald M. Steinberg
Publication Date:: 11-1999
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: Europe, both in terms of the individual states and collectively through the 15-member European Union, seeks to play an active role in the Middle East peace process. There are many reasons for this - substantive, political, and symbolic.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, International Relations, Security, and Peace Studies
Political Geography:: Europe and Middle East

Author:: Zalman Shoval
Publication Date:: 03-1997
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: The Hebron agreement is now finally in place. During the months that it took to reach that point, some must have been reminded of what the nineteenth century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerstone once said about the Schleswig-Holstein question: there were only three people who understood it - one of whom was dead, one was in an asylum, and he himself had forgotten it.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, International Relations, and Sovereignty
Political Geography:: Middle East

Author:: David Newman
Publication Date:: 07-1997
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract:: Maps are a very important part of the political process of conflict resolution known as the peace process. Maps are important parts of all territorial conflicts. We often walk around with the idea of a map in our head and think we know what we are talking about, but often we do not.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Peace Studies, and Sovereignty
Political Geography:: Middle East, Israel, and Palestine

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