By Michael Sharnoff
Gamal Abdel Nasser used to be arguably essentially the most influential Arab leaders in historical past. As President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970, he can have completed a peace contract with Israel, but he most well-liked to keep up his distinct management function by means of asserting pan-Arab nationalism and championing the liberation of Palestine, a standard euphemism for the destruction of Israel.
In that period of chilly battle politics, Nasser brilliantly performed Moscow, Washington, and the United international locations to maximise his bargaining place and maintain his rule with out compromising his middle ideals of Arab solidarity and unity. strangely, little research is located relating to Nasser’s private and non-private views on peace within the weeks and months instantly after the 1967 conflict. Nasser’s Peace is a detailed exam of the way a constructing state can rival global powers and the way fluid the definition of “peace” can be.
Drawing on lately declassified fundamental resources, Michael Sharnoff completely inspects Nasser’s post-war process, which he claims used to be a four-tiered diplomatic and media attempt which includes his public declarations, his deepest diplomatic consultations, the Egyptian media’s propaganda computing device, and Egyptian diplomatic efforts. Sharnoff unearths that Nasser manipulated every one tier masterfully, offering the solutions they wanted to pay attention, instead of mentioning the reality: that he wanted to take care of keep watch over of his dictatorship and of his foothold within the Arab world.
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