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Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947, Hardback Book

Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947 Hardback

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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. In summary, rising powers' management of the Arab-Israeli conflict has shifted from active to more passive methods since 1947.

Their actions have occurred alongside two key changes within the conflict.

One is the shift from a primarily state-based conflict between Israel and the Arabs to one that is more ethnic and territorial in scope, between Israel and the Palestinians.

The other the emergence of the Oslo framework which has frozen power imbalance between Israel and the Palestinians since 1993.

By pursuing the Oslo process, rising powers have separated conflict management from developing 'normal' diplomatic and economic exchanges with Israel and the Palestinians.

In adopting this more passive conflict management approach, rising powers are disregarding both emerging alternatives that may potentially transform the conflict's dynamics (including involvement with civil society actors like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) and undertaking more active efforts at conflict resolution-and presenting themselves as global powers.

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