Peace Process

In this timely new edition of Peace Process, William B. Quandt analyzes how each U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson has dealt with the complex challenge of brokering peace in the Middle East, from the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to the death of Yasir Arafat. This classic work has now been updated to reflect recently declassified U.S. government documents and other published materials relating to the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton presidencies, and to carry the story through George W. Bush's first term.

The most comprehensive account of the Middle East peace process in print, the book places the current situation in historical context and point to possible ways out of the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians. The text is complemented by extensive documentary appendixes containing significant treaties, resolutions, and speeches, which are available on the Brookings Institution's web site.

William B. Quandt is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at The Brookings
Institution. He is the author of several books, including The United States and Egypt: An Essay on Policy for the 1990s (1990) and Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics (1986). Peace Process is a substantially revised and expanded version of one of his earlier books, Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1976, published by the University of California Press in 1977.