Rising powers and the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1947

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Rising powers and the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1947

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Guy Burton

Creator

• Burton, Guy

Subject

• Arab-Israeli conflict -- History
• Middle East -- Foreign relations
• Peace-building -- Middle East -- History

Language

eng

Summary

What has been the role of rising powers in the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as rising powers’ behavior in the world more generally? This book studies the way that five rising powers-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS countries-have approached the conflict since it first became internationalized in 1947. Conflict management consists of different methods, from peacekeeping to mediation and the use of economic incentives and sanctions and (non)enforcement of international legal decisions. What distinguishes them is whether they are active or passive: active measures seek to transform a conflict and resolve it; passive measures seek to ameliorate its worst effects, but do not change their underlying causes. Since 1947 rising powers’ active or passive use of these methods has coincided with their rise and fall and rise again in the international system. Those rises and falls are tied to global changes, including the Cold War, the emergence of the Third World, economic and ideological retrenchment of the 1980s and 1990s and the shift from unipolarity to multipolarity after 2000. --

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• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography