Confidence Building Measures in the Middle East
First published 1994 by Westview Press
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Contents
PART ONE
Introduction
, Gabriel Ben-Dor and David B. Dewitt
PART TWO
Regional Actors: The Israelis and the Palestinians
, Rex Brynen
, Alan Dowty
, Mark A. Heller
, Noemi Gal-Or
PART THREE
Regional Actors: Arab States
, Gideon Gera
, Gideon Gera
, Emile Sahliyeh
, Janice Gross Stein
PART FOUR
External Actors and Interactions
, Bernard Reich
, Victor A. Kremenyuk
, Keith R. Krause
, Gabriel Weimann
PART FIVE
Reflections About Confidence Building in the Middle East
, Howard Adelman
, Gabriel Ben-Dor and David B. Dewitt
, Andrew Richter
Guide
This volume grew out of two separate sets of discussions. First and foremost, it is the natural follow-on to our earlier volume, Conflict Management in the Middle East (1987), and we owe a debt of gratitude to all those who offered comments and suggestions concerning the issues raised in that book. Second, we acknowledge the role played by the CRB Foundation (Montreal). In preliminary discussions with Tom Axworthy, executive director, concerning the kinds of research that needed to be supported, Howard Adelman and David Dewitt proposed a long-term program on Israeli-Palestinian confidence building. There were to be two parts: one focusing on the perceptions of security and the future held by Palestinians in Israel, in Gaza and the West Bank, and in communities beyond; the other on confidence building between Israel, the Palestinians and the core Arab states. The CRB provided initial support for both projects and direct assistance in convening early meetings for each.
The research workshop in which many of the early drafts of the chapters in this volume were presented took place in Toronto in April 1992. In addition to the CRB Foundation, we have pleasure in acknowledging the financial assistance provided by the former Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and York University. A number of scholars and other experts attended or in other ways provided assistance to this project. Some also offered papers either at that time or soon thereafter for consideration in this volume, but unfortunately due to the vagaries of publication restrictions we were not able to include them.
Among those who contributed in various ways were Tom Axworthy, Juergen Dedring, David Harries, Linda Hossie, Andy Knight, Nabil Mekhael, Lourie Mylroie, Emile Nahkleh, Michael Shenstone, and Thom Workman. Gideon Gera deserves a separate note. For two years as a visiting scholar at York Centre for International and Strategic Studies he ensured that we maintained a critical focus on our project, not letting it become all things to all people. He also allowed us to draw on his unique expertise to write an additional chapter on Syria when our original contributor was suddenly unable to participate.
Special thanks to Kathy Byers, Steve Mataija and Heather Chestnutt for handling the conference preparations, with an additional nod of gratitude to Steve for working with us over the year on editorial revisions and to Heather for managing the process of transforming the revised papers into a copyedited typescript. The Centre for International and Strategic Studies, York University, provided a congenial and supportive home for us both during this period. Gabriel Ben-Dor also acknowledges the role played by the Department of Political Science, York University, and the Canada-Israel Faculty Academic Exchange program, which together made his stay in Canada possible. Dewitt acknowledges, with thanks, The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern & African Studies, Tel Aviv University, for granting him a Dayan Research Fellowship, 199394, during which time the final chapter and typescript revisions were completed. Finally, our thanks to Westview Press and Mick Gusinde-Duffy for handling this book efficiently and professionally.
As this typescript goes off to the publisher, the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli peace processes are facing yet another challenge. Violence against both Jewish and Arab civilians has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the leadership of both Rabin and Arafat in undertaking the Oslo Declaration of Principles is being questioned from within their own camps. Confidence building requires that this type of crisis be used as an opportunity to reassure and confirm all the commitments previously entered into and requires also the capabilities and political will not to allow extremism to have a veto over the legitimate political process. By the time this volume has been published, history will have recorded the outcome of this particular period. We, as so many others, hope that wisdom and reason will prevail and that a negotiated equitable peace for all will result.
Gabriel Ben-Dor
David B. Dewitt
Howard Adelman is Professor of Philosophy and former Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto. Professor Adelman has published extensively on a variety of subjects, both theoreticalHegel, philosophy of history, the logic of discovery in science, political philosophy and theoryand applied fieldsnuclear disarmament, higher education, humanitarian intervention, and extensively on the Middle East. He is currently completing a book on the role of the United Nations in the partition of Palestine.
Gabriel Ben-Dor is Professor of Political Science and former Rector, Haifa University. He is the author of over 70 professional articles and two books, and is contributing editor to three books, including, with David Dewitt, Conflict Management in the Middle East (1987).
Rex Brynen is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Middle East Studies Program at McGill University. He is author of Sanctuary and Survival: The PLO in Lebanon (Westview 1990), editor of Echoes of the Intifada: Regional Repercussions of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Westview, 1991), and coeditor of The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World (1993) and Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World (forthcoming). Under the auspices of the Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies (Montral), he is currently engaged in research on the developmental aspects of regional security in the Middle East, with particular reference to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
David B. Dewitt is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, and Director of the Centre for International and Strategic Studies. His current research focuses on regional security and conflict management, including evolving security concerns in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East as well as Canadian foreign and security policy. His most recent publication, edited with David Haglund and John Kirton, is Building a New Global Order: Emerging Trends in International Security (1993).
