The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Legacy, Diplomacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199334810)

The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the modern Middle East more broadly. It marked the beginning of a US-led peace process between Israel and her Arab neighbours; it introduced oil diplomacy as a new means of leverage in international politics; and it affected irreversibly the development of the European Community and the Palestinian struggle for independence. Moreover, the regional order which emerged at the end of the war remained largely unchallenged for nearly four decades, until the recent wave of democratic revolutions in the Arab world. The fortieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War provides a timely opportunity to reassess the major themes that emerged during the war and in its aftermath, and the contributors to this book provide the first comprehensive account of the domestic and international factors which informed the policies of Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan, as well as external actors before, during and after the war. In addition to chapters on the superpowers, the EU and the Palestinians, the book also deals with the strategic themes of intelligence and political of the war on Israeli and Arab societies.

Author: Asaf Siniver
ISBN-10: 0199334811
ISBN-13: 9780199334810
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.99w x 1.10d