The peace process : from breaktrough to breakdown / Afif Safieh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction by Afif Safieh ---- 1. The PLO: The challenge and the response --- 2. One people too many? --- 3. Dead ends? --- 4. Palestinian peace diplomacy --- 5. Resurrecting the European working paper --- 6. Sources of Lebanese-Palestinian tensions --- 7. Interview with Gene Sharp on Non-violent Struggle --- 8. Minutes of evidence taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee --- 9. Superpower politics and the Middle East --- 10. On the Madrid peace process --- 11. On Jerusalem --- 12. Those were the days --- 13. The role of third parties --- 14. Historical or territorial compromise --- 15. From breakthrough to breakdown? --- 16. Out of Jerusalem? --- 17. Fifty years on: achievements and challenges --- 18. On Sabeel --- 19. Diplomacy: The art of delaying the inevitable --- 20. The end of pre-history --- 21. The international will and the national whim --- 22. Rome and its belligerent Sparta --- 23. Letter to Prime Minister Blair --- 24. On Edward Said --- 25. Which way is forward? 26. On Yasser Arafat --- 27. Anatomy of a mission: London 1990 -- 2005.

Afif Safieh served as Palestinian General Delegate in London, Washington and Moscow from 1990 to 2008. During this time, he met and interacted with the leading figures of our times: from Yasser Arafat to Tony Blair; to Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, and Pope John Paul II. The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown brings together Afif Safieh's articles, lectures and interviews from 1981, when he was a staff member in Yasser Arafat's Beirut office, to 2005, at the end of his mission in London...,