The first ten months of the Obama administration’s efforts to achieve a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli peacemaking have led to widespread disappointment among Palestinians and to growing anxiety among Israelis. Inevitably, this unsatisfactory interim report card is partly a result of the high expectations created by President Barack Obama himself, during the presidential campaign as well as in hi...

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As President of the United States, Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as capital Israel served heighten tensions in Middle East and instantly undermined his stated goal bringing peace troubled region. This paper will argue that there are important lessons be gained from political process Northern Ireland help bolster a East. Through an analysis Unionist politics pre- post- Anglo-Iri...

Peter Jones is Project Leader of the Middle East Security and Arms Control Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Prior to joining SIPRI in 1995, he spent seven years with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs dealing with arms control and security issues in the Middle East, Europe, and at the United Nations. Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from Kin...

trying to reach to is an important factor affecting peace and stability in the middle east. in 1980-1990, iraq demonstrated two times that it was a determining element in reaching hegemony. on the other hand, iran tried to prove itself as a balancing power in the middle east. even, it tried to spread islamic fundamentalism. following these goals ended in a harsh conflict between the two countri...

This paper relies on theoretical approaches from the IR-discipline to account for important changes in Germany’s support for a common European foreign policy toward the ArabIsraeli dispute since the early 1990s. It first describes two major shifts in Germany’s approach towards Middle East peace making: first, Germany’s growing support for EuroMediterranean cooperation in the second half of the ...