Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

This first encyclopedia about the Arab-Israeli conflict by a team of experts gives detailed and comprehensive coverage of the important political, military, and diplomatic events, places, people, groups, agreements, treaties, and issues that have marked this controversial and complex regional and international conflict. A team of authorities with varying backgrounds, interests, disciplines, and perspectives gives special attention to the period since the adoption of the Palestine partition plan in November 1947, the first Arab-Israeli War up to the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles and subsequent agreements, as well as the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and implementation process.

Hundreds of entries arranged alphabetically provide hard-to-find information and point to sources for further reading and research. Extensive cross-references, a chronology of important events, a bibliographical essay, and a general index further enhance this basic research tool. Designed for broad interdisciplinary use by scholars, students, policymakers, and general readers of varying backgrounds, interests, disciplines, and perspectives in college, university, institutional, and public libraries.

BERNARD REICH, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, has published widely on U.S. Middle East policy and on Middle Eastern politics. His works include Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary (1992), Israeli Politics in the 1990s (1992), Securing the Covenant: United States-Israeli Relations after the Cold War (1995), and Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation: A Documentary History (1995), all published by the Greenwood Publishing Group. He is a consultant to a number of U.S. government agencies on Middle Eastern Affairs.