Fall 2008

(8-19-08)

PLIR 524

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace

Instructor: William B. Quandt

Wed. 2:00-4:30, Cabell 318

Office Hours: Wed. 10:00 a.m.-noon.

and by appointment, Cabell 255

Tel.: 924-7896

e-mail: wbq8f@virginia.edu

WBQ Home Page: www.people.virginia.edu/~wbq8f

Class Home Page: https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/portal

This seminar will seek to accomplish several goals: you will be introduced to main concepts and general principles from negotiation theory; you will study in depth a number of the most important moments in Arab-Israeli peace negotiations; and you will work with other class members to develop a negotiating strategy for dealing with aspects of the on-going Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

For the ten class sessions from September 3 through November 5, you will write eight short essays (2-3 pages single-spaced). I want everyone to write a paper for September 3 on theory; after that you may choose the remaining seven cases. Each paper should critque main ideas from the readings as well as develop your own point of view. You should try, where appropriate, to integrate theoretical ideas with the case materials. The papers will be due on the Sunday preceding class by 5 pm. I will read the papers before we meet on Wednesday and we will discuss them in class.

Each week, I will ask some members of the class to take the lead in introducing one or more of the readings, or one of the additional readings for the week. I also expect each student to participate actively in class discusssions.

Toward the end of the semester, we will engage in an in-class simulation that will carry on over two weeks. The class will be divided into several teams – one for Israel, one for the Palestinians, and one for the United States. Each team will develop an initial strategy paper; will keep track of how its positions evolved during the simulation; and will produce a final report that will be presented on the last day of class. Our goal will be to replicate as realisticlly as possible the actual neotiating situation between Israelis and Palestinians, with the goal of identifying key tradeoffs that would be needed in order to reach a compromise agreement.

You will be expected to purchase the following books.

R. Fisher- Getting to Yes
D. Kurtzer - Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace

A. Miller - The Much Too Promised Land

W. Quandt - Peace Process (most of you probably have this already from PLIR 365)

W. Quandt - Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics
U. Savir - The Process

T. Wittes - How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate

These books will be available for purchase at the University bookstore, but you may also want to look on line for less expensive options.

The class web page (UVaCollab) will have a Resources section with other required readings.

August 27 Introduction

September 3 Negotiating Theory

Reading: Fisher et. al., Getting to Yes

Miller, pp. 1-124

Quandt, PP. pp. 1-22

Zartman, e-reserves

Additional:

R. Haass, Conflicts Unending

G. Shell, Bargaining for Advantage

M. Watkins, Breakthrough International Negotiations

R. Lewicki, Essentials of Negotiation

B. Starkey, Negotiating in a Complex World

September 10 Kissinger and Shuttle Diplomacy part I

Reading: Miller, pp. 125-156

Quandt, PP, pp. 55-130

Kissinger parts I-II (five segments), e-reserves

September 17 Kissinger and Shuttle Diplomacy part II

Reading: Quandt, PP, pp. 130-173

Quandt on Kissinger, e-reserves

Additional: National Security Archives

Kissinger, Crisis

September 24 Carter and Camp David part I

Reading: Quandt, CD, pp. 1-167

Miller pp. 157-190

Carter I-II-III, e-reserves

CD Strategy paper, e-reserves

October 1 Carter and Camp David part II

(I will be in Cairo this week. Andrew Miller will teach the class, focussing on the topic of third-party mediation).

Reading: Quandt, CD, pp. 168-319

Brzezinski I-II, e-reserves

Begin as Negotiator, e-reserves

Stein, e-reserves

Additional: National Security Archives

S. Telhami, Power and Leadership in International Relations

October 8 Madrid

Reading: Quandt, PP, pp. 290-318

Miller pp. 191-234

October 15 Oslo

Reading: Savir

Quandt, PP, pp. 321-341

Additional: Corbin, The Norway Channel

October 22 Clinton and Camp David II

Reading: Miller 235-315

Wittes

Quandt, PP, pp. 342-381

Malley, e-reserves

Ross, e-reserves

Additional: D. Ross, The Missing Peace

C. Enderlin, Shattered Dreams

C. Swisher, The Truth About Camp David

S. Ben Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace

G. Sher, The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999-2001

S. Shamir, ed., The Camp David Summit – What Went Wrong?

J. Pressman, “Visions in Collision”, International Security, Fall 2003.

H. Cobban, The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks

A. Bregman, Elusive Peace

I. Rabinovitch, Waging Peace

October 29 Bush and the Road Map: (Aaron Miller will join us for this sessions and will be speaking later in the afternoon at the Miller Center).

Reading: Quandt, PP, pp.385-412

Miller, 321-360

Additional: Enderlin, The Lost Years

November 5 What Works, What Doesn’t

Reading: Kurtzer

Quandt, CD, pp. 320-339

Quandt, PP, pp. 415-428

Miller, pp. 363-385

Additional: Beilin, The Path to Geneva

W. Ury, Getting Past No

November 12 Simulation – round I

November 19 Simulation – round II

December 3 Group Reports

Additional Resources:

M. Abbas (Abu Mazin), Through Secret Channels

H. Ashrawi, This Side of Peace

J. A. Baker, (with Thomas M. DeFrank), The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War

and Peace, 1989-1992

Y. Bar-Simon-Tov, Israel and the Peace Process, 1977-1982

Z. Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser,

1977-1981.

J. Carter, The Blood of Abraham.

------. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

H. Cobban, The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-96 and Beyond

R. Cohen, Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations

J. Corbin, The Norway Channel: The Secret Talks That Led to the Middle East

Peace Accord.

M. Dayan, Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations.

A. Eban, An Autobiography.

------. Personal Witness: Israel through My Eyes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993.

L. Eisenberg and N. Caplan, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace

I. Fahmy, Negotiating for Peace in the Middle East.

M. Golan, The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step-by-Step Diplomacy

in the Middle East.

A. Haig, Caveat

Y. Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Hour

R. Haass, Conflicts Unending: The United States and Regional Disputes.

M. Heikal, Secret Channels

M. Heller and S. Nuseibeh, Broken Trumpets

S. M. Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.

M. Indyk, ``To the Ends of the Earth'': Sadat's Jerusalem Initiative.

W. Isaacson, Kissinger

M. Kamil, The Camp David Accords

A. Klieman, Statecraft in the Dark: Israel's Practice of Quiet Diplomacy

H. Kissinger, White House Years.

------. Years of Renewal.

------. Crisis

D. Korn, Stalemate: The War of Attrition and Great Power Diplomacy in the

Middle East, 1967-1970.

Y. Lukacs, ed., The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record, 1967-1990.

D. Makovsky, Making Peace with the PLO

R. M. Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

J. Peters, Pathways to Peace: The Multilaterals

S. Peres, The New Middle East

W. Quandt, ed., The Middle East: Ten Years After Camp David

M. Rabie, The U.S.-PLO Dialogue

Y. Rabin, The Rabin Memoirs (afterword by Y. Peri)

I. Rabinovitch, The Road Not Taken

……….., The Brink of Peace

………..., Waging Peace

J. Rothman, "Negotiation as Consolidation", Jerusalem Journal of International

Relations, 1991.

J. Rubin, ed., The Dynamics of Third Party Intervention

D. Rusk, As I Saw It.

E. Said, Peace and its Discontents

G. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State.

S. Spiegel, ed., The Arab-Israeli Search for Peace

……….., The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy

from Truman to Reagan.

J. Stein, ed., Getting to the Table: The Process of International Prenegotiation

……….., "Structure, Tactics and Strategies of Mediation: Kissinger and Carter in the

Middle East", Negotiation Journal, October 1985.

M. Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

H. Teicher, Twin Pillars to Desert Storm

S. Tuval, The Peace Brokers

C. Vance, Hard Choices: Critical Years in America's Foreign Policy.

E. Weizman, The Battle for Peace.