Arab-Israeli Politics
Class 3: The Middle East context: a strategic
area, unstable and "penetrated" political systems, diplomatic
paralysis, and local arms races.
Remember for Friday - your issues and
roles for our inclass conference - the
Israeli-Palestinian issues cannot be divorced from regional and
global concerns. Also please fill out the blank map
to hand in on Friday. Meanwhile keep an eye on our 2008 News and
Resources
The Global Context: Maps of the
"cockpit"/"shatter zone":
United States interest?
- transport, oil, and hegemonic
responsibilities. for how much longer? - did the "American [half]
Century" end here?
- the special Israeli connection.
- hence the vital interest in the "peace
process"
The US "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia
- to be superceded by US-Iraq??
- Frank D. Roosevelt meeting with King Abd
al-Aziz Saudi (Red Sea, 1945)
- the legacy of ARAMCO: some oil
statistics (with a certain American
resentment at the
pump)
- Saudi Arabia: Islamic foundations - Mecca and
Medina - haj or annual pilgrimage
- Islam and Jerusalem
- 1973 oil production
boycott and production cutbacks! - and
Kissinger shuttle diplomacy 1973-75 "step-by-step" vs. Jimmy
Carter's comprehensive approach
Jimmy Carter, Camp David (Sept 1978) -
without Palestinians, Jordanians, or
Syrians - leading to a separate
Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty (March 1979)
The renewed Peace Process: Madrid Conference
Oct 1991: bilateral and multilateral tracks (1993-1997)
- bilateral
- Israel-Palestinians
- Israel-Syria
- Israel-Jordan - 1994 peace
treaty
- multilateral
- security
- refugees
- water
- environment
- economic development: the embarrassments of
Madelaine Albright at Doha, Qatar, November 1997
- Breakdown: Camp David II (July 2000) and
the Second Intifada
8 Sept. 2008
- Department
of Government, College
of Liberal Arts, University
of Texas at Austin.
- Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to
chenry@mail.utexas.edu
