Good Neighbourly Relations: Jordan, Israel and the 1994-2004 Peace Process

by Dona J. Stewart

Overview

In 1994 Jordan became the second Arab country to sign a peace agreement with Israel and set out to create a 'warm peace', and not just an end to hostilities. As such, the treaty sought to stimulate extensive networks of bilateral economic, cultural, societal and security relationships. Dona Stewart argues that, while the treaty itself remains intact, relations between the two states have far from fulfilled expectations. The decade that followed the treaty was turbulent, as the Oslo process collapsed, Rabin was assassinated, violence between Palestinians and Israel escalated and peace failed to deliver expected dividends to Jordan. Stewart approaches this subject through both Jordanian and Israeli perspectives, dissecting the challenges to establishing 'good neighbourly relations' and the obstacles that have prevented the idea of peace from filtering down from government and into the rest of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848859708
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/28/2012
Series:	Library of Modern Middle East Studies
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dona Stewart is the director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development at Georgia State University, Atlanta and associate professor of Geography. She is a former Fulbright Scholar in Jordan and Visiting Scholar at the Amman Center for Peace and Development.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgements
• The Challenge to Create ‘Good Neighbourly Relations’
• The Road to Peace Between Jordan and Israel
• The Jordanian-Israeli Security Relationship
• A Relationship Challenged: The Tunnel, Naharayim and Mish’al
• ‘The Fruits of Peace’: Sharing Water Resources
• Economic Cooperation and Trade: Little Known Tangible Results
• Tourism: Dashed Hopes Amid Rising Tension
• Building Peace Between the People: The Eff orts of Non-Governmental Organizations
• Perceptions of Peace in Jordan and the Anti-Normalization Movement
• Lessons from an Incomplete Peace
• Appendix: Treaty of Peace between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Editorial Reviews

""Dona Stewart's short monograph adds a new and interesting dimension to the literature on Jordanian-Israeli relations... Among the more significant contributions in this book are the data that Stewart has collected on various aspects of normalization. In each aspect of bilateral relations, Stewart methodically chronicles a story of hopeful expectations and far fewer successful realities."" - Daniel C. Kurtzer, Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Princeton University

""This volume is a lesson to would-be peacemakers: as Stewart points out, enduring peace requires constant nurturing and a continuing effort to compromise and make sacrifices. Her recommendations are realistic, as are her ultimately pessimistic forecasts for the road ahead. Ultimately this book is more than an account of Jordanian-Israeli exchanges since the 1994 Treaty was signed: it is more akin to a marriage guidance resource for peacemakers who seek the long-term happy ending."" - Asian Affairs (Journal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs), March 2008

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