The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Diplomacy, Legacy - Hardcover

Asaf Siniver is Senior Lecturer in International Security in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include conflict resolution, international mediation and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and his work has appeared in various academic journals. He is the author of Nixon, Kissinger and US Foreign Policy: The Machinery of Crisis and the editor of International Terrorism post- 9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses. He is a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2011-13) and Associate Editor of the journal Civil Wars.

'An important and authoritative reconstruction by one of the most talented stables of historians and experts ever assembled. "The Yom Kippur War" is highly relevant today, as the world faces a new era of upheaval with the potential for war in the Middle East. This comprehensive volume will help a new generation of readers--scholarly and otherwise--puzzle through the lessons learned from the region's most violent clash between Arabs and Israelis." -- Patrick Tyler, author of A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East from the Cold War to the War on Terror and Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country and Why They Can't Make Peace

"Finally, forty years after the October, 1973 War, a comprehensive, 360-degree analysis of a seminal moment in the long-running dispute between Israel and her Arab neighbours. By looking at the war from every perspective, not only from Tel Aviv, Cairo, Damascus and Amman, but from Washington, Moscow, and Europe, the whole picture comes into focus. In the process, it shows those of us who covered the war, how little we knew and understood at the time." -- Terence Smith, Israel correspondent for the New York Times during the Yom Kippur war

"...offers rich perspectives on a forty-year-old war that somehow does not recede in time." -- Abraham Rabinovich author of The Yom Kippur War, in The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

"Siniver's study of this watershed event will interest all who wish to understand the complexity of the Egypt-Israel relationship." -- History Today

"Asaf Siniver has been able to assemble an impressive group of scholars to bring new light to bear on the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. ... the chapters are well researched and present largely convincing pictures of aspects of this major crisis. an important book for anyone interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict at one of its seminal moments." -- William Quandt, Journal of Cold War Studies

"Asaf Siniver has been able to assemble an impressive group of scholars to bring new light to bear on the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. ... the chapters are well researched and present largely convincing pictures of aspects of this major crisis. an important book for anyone interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict at one of its seminal moments" -- William Quandt, Journal of Cold War Studies