1st Edition

Conflict, Diplomacy and Society in Israeli-Lebanese Relations

Edited By Efraim Karsh, Michael Kerr, Rory Miller Copyright 2010
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a wide-ranging and innovative study of Israeli-Lebanese relations from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948 to the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006. Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbours is a subject of perennial interest in the Middle East. The relationship between Israel and Lebanon has taken numerous forms since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948 and the chapters in... Read more

1. The Evolution of Israeli-Lebanese Relations: from Implicit Peace to Explicit Conflict  Hilal Khashan

2. Point of Departure: the 1967 War and the Jews of Lebanon  Kirsten E. Schulze

3. 'A positive aspect to the tragedy of Lebanon' - The convergence of US, Syrian and Israeli interests at the outset of Lebanon's Civil War  Michael Kerr

4. History Revisited or Revamped? The Maronite Factor in Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon  Laurie Eisenberg

5. The Israeli-Syrian-Lebanese Triangle-The Renewed Struggle over Lebanon  Eyal Zisser

6. Between Israel and Lebanon: The Druze Intifawfda of October 2007  John Maher

7. The 2006 Lebanon War and the Front of Legitimacy  Alan Craig

8. The Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group: A Building Block for a future Israel-Lebanese Accord?  Adir Waldman

Biography

Efraim Karsh is Professor of Mediterranean Studies at King's College London, UK. His most recent books include Islamic Imperialism: A History, and Arafat's War: The Man and his Battle for Israeli Conquest, and Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923.

Michael Kerr is Professor of Conflict Studies at King's College London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies. He is the author of Imposing Power Sharing: Conflict and Coexistence in Northern Ireland and Lebanon and editor of Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution.

Rory Miller is Professor and Director of Middle East & Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. He is the author of Divided Against Zion: Opposition in Britain to a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948 and Ireland and the Palestine Question, 1948-2004 ; Inglorious Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians since 1967; and editor of Palestine, Britain and Empire: The Mandate Years.