Jordan, the United States and the Middle East Peace Process, 1974–1991

Madiha Madfai explores Jordan's role in the USA's peacemaking efforts during the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations.

Madiha Rashid al Madfai (Author)

9780521036795, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 June 2007

304 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg

"All of this story makes for rather fascinating reading, perhaps particulary for the reader with a broad international perspective...especially informative and enlightening for the general reader...Al Madfai's work helps a good deal to enlighten both specialist and general reader about a little-known aspect of Middle Eastern history and politics." Barry Preisler, The International History Review

On 31 July 1988 King Hussain of Jordan renounced all administrative and legal ties with the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the River Jordan, initiating a turning point in the Middle East peace process. In this study, Madiha Madfai explores Jordan's role in the USA's peacemaking efforts during the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations. She examines the events culminating in the action of 1988 and convincingly demonstrates a history of anger, anguish and frustration with the Middle East peace process that lay behind the Jordanian decision. Dr Madfai also assesses the effects the American-Jordanian relationship had on stability in the Middle East.

Foreword William B. Quandt
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. Kissinger's legacy and imprint on the Middle East
Part I. Jordan in the Carter Middle East Policy: 3. Carter picks up the threads
4. The Camp David accords and Jordan
5. An evaluation of the development of American strategy for the 1980s
Part II. Jordan in the Reagan Middle East Policy: 6. The evolution of Reagan's strategy
7. The US, Israel and Jordan: collaboration and discord
8. Two cases of collaboration and discord
9. The US and Jordan: how 'much' became 'too much'
Part III. US, Jordan and Arab Approaches to Peace: 10. The Arab framework for peace
11. Jordan embarks on several lines of foreign policy
12. US and Jordan: more wheeling and dealing
13. Postscript: evaluation and conclusion
Appendix A: comparison of Middle East peace proposals
Appendix B: Jordan-US exchange of questions and answers on the Camp David Accords, September 1978
Appendix C: US assistance to Jordan 1975–1989
Appendix D: Arab assistance to Jordan paid in accordance with the 1978 Baghdad Summit Conference and 1980 Amman Arab summits
Appendix E: Peres-Hussain Agreement (The London Document), 11 April 1987
Appendix F: Shamir's Four-point plan, April 1989
Appendix G: Baker's Five-point plan, December 1989
Appendix H: Invitation to Madrid Peace Conference, 18 October 1981
Appendix I: Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians, 18 October 1981
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]