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Master of the game : Henry Kissinger and the art of Middle East diplomacy

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  • Running Time: 25:00 hrs
    Narrator: Simon Vance
    Publisher:
    Alfred A. Knopf, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 25:00 hrs
    Narrator: Simon Vance
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Indyk, Martin
    Date:
    Created
    2021
    Summary:

    A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

    Contents:
    • The strategy
    • Gaining control
    • The Jordan crisis
    • A failure of imagination
    • Resupply
    • Cease-fire
    • DEFCON 3
    • Golda's inferno
    • Henry of Arabia
    • "A time for peace"
    • The Sinai disengagement
    • "Ploughing the ocean"
    • Breakthrough
    • The step not taken
    • Breakdown
    • Reassessment
    • Denouement.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, History and geography, Political science
    Subject(s): Arab-Israeli conflict | Diplomatic relations | Kissinger, Henry | Mediation, International
    Original Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781101947548, 1101947543, 9780593454190