Transfer of Arms, Leverage, and Peace in the Middle East

by Nitza Nachmias

Overview

Although Israel has been primarily dependent on U.S. arms for its national security since 1968, supplying military aid has not conferred the degree of policy leverage anticipated by the United States. This study is the first to analyze the reasons why the tactics of transferring or withholding arms have failed to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals in the Middle East. Providing a thorough, up-to-date reexamination of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, Nachmias gives a comprehensive account of U.S. Middle East policy from 1968 to 1988 and explores the international and regional dilemmas that have undercut U.S. policy initiatives for peace.

Nachmias argues that the use of military aid to achieve foreign policy goals ignores the regional conditions that control Middle East politics and does little to advance the peace process or enhance U.S. power in the region. To promote these objectives, she suggests alternative approaches, including the creation of a coherent and consistent U.S. policy for the region and a stronger and more innovative diplomatic role. One of the few analyses to consider international policy questions in terms of leverage between client and patron states, Nachmias's work significantly enlarges our understanding of the complex forces that will continue to shape the Middle East situation in the coming decades. Her book will be a valuable resource for scholars, officials, and students specializing in U.S. politics and foreign policy and Middle East studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313263002
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/18/1988
Series:	Contributions in Military Studies , #83
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

NITZA NACHMIAS is on the faculty of the City College of New York. Her articles on international relations have appeared in U.S. and Israeli jourbanals.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The United States and Israel: The Troubled Alliance
Regional Dilemmas
Global Dilemmas
Leverage in Patron-Client Relationships: Can It Work?
Military Aid for Israel: Concept and Application
The Rogers Peace Plan of 1969: The Wrong Idea at the Wrong Time, for the Wrong Actors
Nixon's Middle East Agenda
The Rogers Peace Plan Takes Shape
The Inevitable Failure of the Rogers Peace Plan
The Disengagement Agreements: A Framework for Peace
The 1973 War: A Prelude to a Settlement
Arms Sales Politics during the 1973 War
A Framework for Peace: The 1974-75 Disengagement Agreements
Arms and Leverage: The Role of Military Aid
The Sinai II Disengagement Agreement: Was Reassessment Successful?
The Camp David Accords: A New Beginning?
Policy Objectives and Conflicts of Interest
A Peaceful Settlement: An Israeli Perspective
Negotiating Peace
Deadlock: Begin's Autonomy Plan
Leverage: Myth and Reality
The Peace Process: An American Perspective
Camp David: Mission Impossible
The Battle over the West Bank and Jerusalem
The Lebanese Crisis (1982-84)
The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
The Collapse of American Policy in Lebanon
Operation Peace for Galilee
The Reagan Peace Plan
Military Aid as Leverage
The Peace Process in the 1980S: New Games, Old Rules
Reagan's Second Peace Initiative: Agenda, Actors
The Step-by-Step Alternative
The Israeli-Jordanian Theater
The Israeli-Syrian Theater
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index