Beyond the Handshake

Arabs and Israelis have battled one another in political and military arenas, seemingly continuously, for some fifty years. The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference sought to change this pattern, launching bilateral and multilateral tracks in the Arab-Israeli peace process. As a result, a broad group of Arab states sat down with Israel and began to cooperate on a wide range of regional issues in what became known as the Middle East multilaterals. Yet why did enemies reluctant even to recognize one another choose to cooperate on regional problems? And once this process began, what drove the parties to continue such cooperation or, in some cases, halt their cooperative efforts? Beyond the Handshake addresses these fundamental questions, exploring the origins of the multilaterals and the development of multilateral cooperation in the areas of arms control and regional security, economic development, water management, and the environment. Dalia Dassa Kaye, challenging conventional concepts of cooperation, argues that multilateral cooperation in the Middle East must be appreciated as a process of interaction rather than solely as a set of outcomes. Presenting theoretical insights of value to students of regional and international relations, Beyond the Handshake provides a unique look at the evolving nature of Arab-Israeli relations and exposes the foundation the multilateral peace process laid for future regional cooperation in the Middle East.

History

Kaye, Dalia Dassa

Middle East

Columbia University Press

On March 21, 2007, the RAND Corporation held a public conference on Capitol Hill, Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? Participants sought to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of various policy options to address the Iranian challenge. This report summarizes remarks presented during the conference. The views expressed in this document are those of the participants, as interpreted by the RAND Corporation.

Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report (Conference Proceedings (Rand Corporation))

Politics & Social Sciences

Harting, Sarah

Dobbins Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan Kosovo Bosnia Haiti and Somalia, James

Politics & Government

RAND Corporation

This monograph examines security-related track two diplomacy efforts in the Middle East and South Asia, including how such efforts have socialized participants into thinking about security in more cooperative terms, and whether the ideas generated in track two forums have been acknowledged at the societal level or influenced official policy. Kaye concludes with suggestions on how to improve future track two efforts.

Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia

<p>A key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy reduces terrorism; however, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positively or negatively. This study explores the relationship between the two by examining the effects of liberalization processes on political violence in six Arab cases.</p>

More Freedom, Less Terror?: Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Grant, Audra K.

Stahl, Dale

Wehrey Carnegie Endowment for International Peace author of Sectarian Politics in, Frederic

Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. To equip U.S. policymakers to better manage the war1s long-term consequences, the authors analyzed its effects on the regional balance of power, local perceptions of U.S. credibility, the domestic stability of neighboring states, and trends in terrorism after conducting extensive interviews in the region and drawing from an array of local media sources.

The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War

Watkins, Jessica

Martini, Jeffrey

Guffey, Robert A.

Asia

<p>Israel and Iran have come to view each other as direct regional rivals. The two countries are not natural rivals; they have shared geopolitical interests, which led to years of cooperation both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution. But their rivalry has intensified recently, particularly with the rise of fundamentalist leaders in Iran and the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran posing grave strategic and ideological challenges to Israel.</p>

Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry

It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons or even that it will gain the capacity to quickly produce them. U.S. and even Israeli analysts continually push their estimates for such an event further into the future. Nevertheless, absent a change in Iranian policy, it is reasonable to assume that, some time in the coming decade, Iran will acquire such a capability. Most recent scholarly studies have also focused on how to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Other, less voluminous writing looks at what to do after Iran becomes a nuclear power. What has so far been lacking is a policy framework for dealing with Iran before, after, and, indeed, during its crossing of the nuclear threshold. This monograph attempts to fill that gap by providing a midterm strategy for dealing with Iran that neither begins nor ends at the point at which Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon capability. It proposes an approach that neither acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran nor refuses to admit the possibility — indeed, the likelihood — of this occurring.

Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Nader, Alireza

Military

Regional artists can play a positive role in shaping public debate and supporting democratic transition in the Middle East. This report explores the challenges artists have faced since the Arab uprisings, U.S. government programs to support arts in the region, and the wide array of nongovernmental activities to engage Arab artists, offering recommendations to improve support for these artists.

Artists and the Arab Uprisings

Schwartz, Lowell H.

Social Sciences

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Beyond the Handshake

Beyond the Handshake

Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report (Conference Proceedings (Rand Corporation))

Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia

More Freedom, Less Terror?: Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World (Rand Corporation Monograph)

The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War

Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry

Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Artists and the Arab Uprisings