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Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U.S. leaders of the moment. The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy, develop strategy and tactics, and see through negotiations to agreements on an issue that has been of singular importance to U.S. interests for more than forty years. In 2006, the authors of The Peace Puzzle formed the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace, to develop a set of "best practices" for American diplomacy. The Study Group conducted in-depth interviews with more than 120 policymakers, diplomats, academics, and civil society figures and developed performance assessments of the various U.S. administrations of the post-Cold War period. This book, an objective account of the role of the United States in attempting to achieve a lasting Arab-Israeli peace, is informed by the authors' access to key individuals and official archives.

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T H E PE ACE PUZ Z L E

T H E PE AC E PUZZLE

A M E R IC A’ S QU E S T F OR A R A B -I S R A E L I PE AC E , 19 8 9 –2 011

DANIEL C. KURTZER, SCOTT B. LASENSKY,

WILLIAM B. QUANDT, STEVEN L. SPIEGEL,

AND SHIBLEY Z. TELHAMI

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE WASHINGTON, DC

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2013 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The peace puzzle : America’s quest for Arab-Israeli peace, 1989–2011 / Daniel C. Kurtzer . . . [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5147-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Arab-Israeli conﬂ ict—1993—Peace. 2. Arab-Israeli conﬂict—1993—Diplomatic history. 3. United States—Foreign relations—Middle East. 4. Middle East—Foreign relations—United States. I. Kurtzer, Daniel.

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CONTENTS

Preface Introduction: The Decline of American Mideast Diplomacy

1. Opportunities Created, Opportunities Lost: Negotiations at Oslo and Madrid 2. Within Reach: Israeli-Syrian Negotiations of the 1990s 3. The Collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

4. George W. Bush Reshapes America’s Role

5. The Annapolis Denouement

6. Obama: An Early Assessment Epilogue: Lessons Learned and Unlearned Notes Index

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PREFACE

In 2006, the authors formed the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The effort, chaired by Daniel Kurtzer and co-directed by Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky, was aimed at developing a set of “best practices” for American diplomacy. The Study Group conducted in-depth interviews with over 120 policymakers, diplomats, academics, and civil society ﬁgures and developed performance assessments of the various ad-ministrations of the post–Cold War period. An initial study,Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East(USIP Press, 2008), co-authored by Kurtzer and Lasensky, serves as a guidebook for American negotiators. Given that the project had a unique set of primary sources, that ofﬁcial ar-chives were likely to remain closed for many years, and that memoirs largely dominated the discourse of the period and thus created the need for an objective and scholarly account, in 2009 members of the Study Group set out to write this book. Additional interviews were conducted, and we also sought the release of select documents that offer further insight into this period; many of these docu-ments are available in the appendix to this volume, accessible online at www.thepeacepuzzle.org. From the beginning, the focus of our work has remained unchanged: to ex-plain and to assess the role of the United States. Although Israeli and Arab leaders feature prominently in the book, as do political developments in the region, our

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assessments—by design—are limited to one and only one party. Rather than pro-vide a deﬁnitive, comprehensive history, this book focuses on critical junctures and decision points for the United States. Although every uptick in the peace pro-cess is not covered, the book does include the most critical inﬂection points. Some subjects, such as Madrid, Oslo, and Camp David II, have been studied elsewhere. For others subjects, such as critical periods in the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, virtually no scholarly accounts exist. For this reason, in the latter cases we offer a more detailed narrative, in addition to the net assessment of U.S. policy common to all chapters. Across all of the cases, this book brings forth new source material and a common, critical analytical framework. All ﬁve authors worked collaboratively to examine the interview material, dig through numerous secondary sources and memoirs, and then develop a common framework for this book. The introduction and the epilogue emerged from a series of workshops and exchanges between the authors in 2010 and 2011. The case studies each had lead authors: Daniel Kurtzer on the Introduction and the Madrid and Oslo breakthroughs; William Quandt on Syria-Israel negotiations; Shibley Telhami on Camp David and the collapse of the Oslo process; and Scott Lasensky and Steven Spiegel on the two chapters on the George W. Bush adminis-tration. The chapter on the Obama administration was authored by Kurtzer and Quandt. We relied on repeated and exhaustive internal critiques as part of a review pro-cess that scrutinized and ﬁne-tuned each case study. All the authors stand behind the underlying analysis and conclusions of the entire book. In September 2011, the manuscript was recommended for publication as the result of a joint peer review process managed by Cornell University Press and USIP Press. We thank the publishers, particularly the lead editors, Roger Haydon (Cor-nell) and Valerie Norville (USIP), as well as the anonymous peer reviewers. Thanks also to Priscilla Hurdle (Cornell) and the USIP management team—Richard Solomon, Tara Sonenshine, and Abiodun Williams. Special recognition goes to Debbie Masi, the production editor at Westchester Publishing Services, and Pat Cattani, the copy editor. The book was also made possible through the able re-search assistance of Robert Grace, Liz Panarelli, Leslie Thompson, Surur Sanjalal, Rachel Brandenburg, Neda Afsharian, Mary Svenstrup, Jonathan Pearl, Bilal Saab, and David A. Weinberg. Britt Manzo at the United States Institute of Peace provided invaluable, boundless and thoughtful support in managing the entire project. The authors take sole responsibility for the content of this book. Although several of the authors have served in government, this book was written in their private capacities. William Quandt worked in the White House under presidents Nixon and Carter. Daniel Kurtzer held senior positions with several administra-

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tions throughout much of the period of this book, including a role on the Obama-Biden transition team. Shibley Telhami served as a special adviser to Senator George Mitchell, President Obama’s ﬁrst special envoy for Middle East Peace. After this book was approved for publication, Scott Lasensky accepted a position in the De-partment of State. The home for this project through its almost six years of gestation was the United States Institute of Peace. We are most grateful for the opportunities the Institute afforded us to work together on this extraordinary project.

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