This SIIS faculty syllabus examines the history of Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations with special attention paid to the American role in the processes.
Essential Reading
Kurtzer, Daniel; Scott B Lasensky, William B Quandt, Steven L Spiegel & Shibley Z Telhami, eds (2013) The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab–Israeli Peace, 1989–2011. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Chapters 3, 4, 5, online.
Recommended Reading
Birnbaum, Ben and Amir Tibon. “The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and Watched It Crumble,” The New Republic, July 20, 2014.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118751/how-israel-palestine-peace-deal-died
Fayyad, Salam. “Oslo is Dead,” Foreign Affairs, October 2, 2014.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2014-10-02/oslo-dead
Friedman, Uri. “Martin Indyk Explains the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process,” The Atlantic, July 3, 2014.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/indyk-netanyahu-and-abbas-loathe-each-other/373922/
Inskeep, Steve. “Palestinians Ask: The Two-State Solution Or The Two-State Illusion?,” NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, March 14, 2015.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/13/392765111/palestinians-ask-the-two-state-solution-or-the-two-state-illusion
Ross, Dennis; David Makovsky; Ghaith Al-Omari. “Israel’s Drive Toward Self-Destruction,” Politico, March 30, 2015
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/israel-self-destruction-netanyahu-116525.html#.VWXEpfnZW-8
Wade, Robert. “Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale,” London Review of Books, October 24, 2014.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/10/24/robert-wade/organised-hypocrisy-on-a-monumental-scale