Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process

by Anthony Wanis-St. John

Book Overview

Wanis-St. John takes on the question of whether the complex and often perilous, secret negotiations between mediating parties prove to be an instrumental path to reconciliation or rather one that disrupts the process. Using the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as a frame-work, the author focuses on the uses and misuses of "back channel" negotiations. Wanis-St. John discusses how top level PLO and Israeli government officials often resorted to secret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815635230
• ISBN13: 9780815635239
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"