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We Downplayed The Signs Of Peace, Then Downplayed The Signs Of War, Yossi Alpher Oct 2023

We Downplayed The Signs Of Peace, Then Downplayed The Signs Of War, Yossi Alpher

Faculty Journal Articles

The October War came as a shock to the Israeli leadership and security community. Their failure to take Sadat’s peace approaches and the imminent threat of war seriously led to changes to both the regional and domestic Israeli political landscapes


Miscalculations And Legacies: A Look Back At The 1973 War Half A Century On, David Makovsky Oct 2023

Miscalculations And Legacies: A Look Back At The 1973 War Half A Century On, David Makovsky

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Historians continue to debate “what if” scenarios about the pivotal conflict which reshaped the Middle East.


What If The October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt Oct 2023

What If The October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt

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Four “what ifs” that could have changed the course of history.


Shifting Tides: Egypt’S Unexpected Path After The 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki Oct 2023

Shifting Tides: Egypt’S Unexpected Path After The 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

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What prompted Egypt to move from a socialist state to a capitalist one, from Israel’s adversary to its reluctant diplomatic partner, from being a country with a strong national identity to a deeply divided one? The answer is war.


United States Diplomacy And The 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer Oct 2023

United States Diplomacy And The 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer

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Before the October 1973 War, U.S. administrations showed little interest in trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. The war was pivotal in launching U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and kick-starting serious steps toward Egyptian-Israeli peacemaking.


The 1973 October War And The Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov Oct 2023

The 1973 October War And The Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov

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The Soviets tried to work out viable policies to deal with the fallout of the October War and Egypt’s pivot to the West.


Israel And The United States Did Not See The 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom Oct 2023

Israel And The United States Did Not See The 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom

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Israel’s mistaken pre-war assumptions about the 1973 War caused it to fail to foresee the potential outbreak of a war with Egypt and Syria. What were these calculations based on and why did the United States follow suit?


The 1973 War And Its Aftermath: The View From Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati Oct 2023

The 1973 War And Its Aftermath: The View From Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati

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Syrian gains in the conflict were elusive as an unilateral strategic move from the Egyptians put them in jeopardy.


1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy Oct 2023

1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy

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The outcomes of wars are evaluated based on how close any of the warring parties come to reaching their objectives. In the case of Egypt in the October War, it is undeniable that the country fulfilled its objectives.


Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince Oct 2023

Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Ringside Seat To Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak Oct 2023

Ringside Seat To Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak

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Research on radicalization finds that exposure to violence leads to further violence. Israel’s military campaign has made Gaza a “living Hell.”


Failures Of International Law And Violence In Gaza, Abigail Flynn Oct 2023

Failures Of International Law And Violence In Gaza, Abigail Flynn

Faculty Journal Articles

The recent attacks on Gaza have raised important questions regarding the effectiveness of international law in preventing violence.


‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson Oct 2023

‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson

Faculty Journal Articles

The war being fought today offers the latest evidence that the brutal reality of Palestinian dispossession has changed little in the decades since Israel’s founding.


Biden Aims To Contain Violence In Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami Oct 2023

Biden Aims To Contain Violence In Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami

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Biden’s recent attempts at deescalation do not challenge or overturn decades of America enabling Israel’s violent occupation of Palestine. Instead, Biden has continued to systematically dismantle any non-violent avenues for Palestinian resistance while strengthening the militant Israeli far right.


Scouring For Meaning, And Hope, In The Rubble Of Gaza, Karim Haggag, Firas Al-Atraqchi Oct 2023

Scouring For Meaning, And Hope, In The Rubble Of Gaza, Karim Haggag, Firas Al-Atraqchi

Faculty Journal Articles

The latest war in Gaza has shocked the world by its sheer violence, and the potential to escalate into a full-blown regional conflict. Worst of all has been the international community’s deafening silence.


Delivering The Palestinians To Israel: The Lasting Effects Of The 1973 War On The Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy Oct 2023

Delivering The Palestinians To Israel: The Lasting Effects Of The 1973 War On The Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy

Faculty Journal Articles

In the years following the creation of Israel, the United States became the game master of the Arab-Israeli peace process. For Palestinians, this meant that they would not have a seat at the table for decades to come.


October 1973: Memoires Of A Soldier And Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly Oct 2023

October 1973: Memoires Of A Soldier And Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly

Faculty Journal Articles

Reflections on how I experienced the war, first as a student-activist, then as a soldier, and later as a political scientist.


Fuelling Transition Or Entropy?, Sarah El-Shaarawi Apr 2023

Fuelling Transition Or Entropy?, Sarah El-Shaarawi

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No abstract provided.


Timeline: Environmental Diplomacy From Rio To Cop27, Cairo Review Apr 2023

Timeline: Environmental Diplomacy From Rio To Cop27, Cairo Review

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No abstract provided.


Reflections On Cop27: How Egypt And India Can Work Together, Sanjay Verma Apr 2023

Reflections On Cop27: How Egypt And India Can Work Together, Sanjay Verma

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In the face of the global climate crisis, India and Egypt must continue to lead the Global South in pursuing equitable climate action and building on the outcomes of the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties in Sharm El-Sheikh.


Could The Future Of Work Be Green? Two Plot Twists, Ghada Barsoum Apr 2023

Could The Future Of Work Be Green? Two Plot Twists, Ghada Barsoum

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Given the pressures of climate change could “green” define the future of work? Why are green jobs limited and who is pushing for them to grow?


The Future Of Water In Mena Is At Stake, Malak Altaeb Apr 2023

The Future Of Water In Mena Is At Stake, Malak Altaeb

Faculty Journal Articles

The MENA region, one of the driest in the world, is facing unprecedented water management challenges due to the effects of climate change.


Inclusion And Implementation At Cop27: Just The Beginning, Cairo Review Apr 2023

Inclusion And Implementation At Cop27: Just The Beginning, Cairo Review

Faculty Journal Articles

Achieving a COP of inclusion and implementation


A Bank Of Actions: Making Good On Losses And Damages, Arunabha Gosh Apr 2023

A Bank Of Actions: Making Good On Losses And Damages, Arunabha Gosh

Faculty Journal Articles

In the seat of the COP27 Presidency, Egypt has the chance to reframe the Conference of the Parties as a forum for action based on accountability.


Lessons From Cop27: Between Progress And Challenges, Martha Delgado Apr 2023

Lessons From Cop27: Between Progress And Challenges, Martha Delgado

Faculty Journal Articles

While COP27 made progress in the areas of mitigation, adaptation, financing, and incorporating a gender, youth, and human rights perspective, Mexico is putting forward various initiatives to tackle remaining challenges.


When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas Apr 2023

When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas

Faculty Journal Articles

The outcome of the UN climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh gives hope for climate justice, but leaves behind many challenges for the upcoming COP28 in Dubai.


Cop27 And The Sustainable City: Global Climate Solution Or Mirage?, Patrick J. Bohlen Apr 2023

Cop27 And The Sustainable City: Global Climate Solution Or Mirage?, Patrick J. Bohlen

Faculty Journal Articles

The COP27 meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh highlighted the gap between climate policy goals and climate reality. In the MENA region and globally, cities are key to advancing climate goals


Hearing The Global South In Climate Convos, Zeinab Shaker Apr 2023

Hearing The Global South In Climate Convos, Zeinab Shaker

Faculty Journal Articles

If progress on climate change is to be made, voices from the most vulnerable Global South and African countries must be heard and included in conversations at climate conferences.


All Policy Is Climate Policy, Jennie Stephens Apr 2023

All Policy Is Climate Policy, Jennie Stephens

Faculty Journal Articles

Scholar and activist Jennie Stephens discusses the future of climate policy, emphasizing a “people-first” perspective and the need for larger societal structural transformation.


Good To The Last Drop, Thomas L. Crisman, Zachary S. Winters Apr 2023

Good To The Last Drop, Thomas L. Crisman, Zachary S. Winters

Faculty Journal Articles

Why nature-based solutions and adaptive management may hold the key to water conservation in the MENA region.