Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003 by Itamar RabinovichReview by: L. Carl BrownForeign Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 2004), p. 180Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20034115 .

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Recent Books

Jews; and most of all, an end to the 37-year-old Israeli occupation.

Waging Peace: Israel and theArabs, 1948-2003, 2nd ed. BY ITAMAR

RABINOVICH. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 344 pp. $16.95.

This new edition traces developments in the five years since Waging Peace first appeared, with two new chapters ("Ehud Barak and the Collapse of the Peace Process" and "Sharon, Bush, and Arafat") plus a revised conclusion. All the strengths of the first edition remain in place, making this informed presenta tion of the policies and performances of the different parties possibly the best short account of Israel's relations with the Arabs, especially from the 1991 Madrid

Conference to the present. Rabinovich is at his best in breaking down critical issues, such as the Arafat-Barak-Clinton

Camp David talks, into the available options. In tracing the breakdown of the promise of Israeli-Palestinian peace beginning in 1993, his analysis depicts less a single turning point than a myriad of false steps and failures on all sides. The

Oslo peace process, he concludes, did not fail; it was never properly implemented.

Uncle Sam in Barbary:A Dilomatic History. BY RICHARD B. PARKER.

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004,320 pp. $59.95.

From the 1770S until 1815, the young American republic confronted the Barbary states, which were acting on the principle that warfare existed and ships would be seized in the absence of a treaty that en tailed paying tribute. With independence, the Americans lost the treaty protection, backed up by naval power, that they had

enjoyed as British subjects. What to do? Seek the support of Britain or some other European power? Line up a coalition of lesser maritime powers to confront the

Barbary menace? Create a navy that could protect U.S. shipping? Or negotiate treaties

with the Barbary states, paying tribute and ransoming prisoners? From the 1770S until 181S, all of the above were tried. Parker provides an overview of U.S. relations with the Barbary states, concentrating on the most important-Algiers-and giving lesser attention to Tunis and Tripoli. (Relations with Morocco, with which the United States signed a treaty of friendship by 1786, were smoother.) Having once served as U.S. ambassador to Algeria and Morocco, Parker brings a good understanding of Maghreb history and culture and painstakingly reconstructs the activities and personalities of the earliest U.S. diplomats. Uncle Sam in Barbary is also copiously illustrated, offering a baker's dozen of well-chosen

appended documents. Those who point to U.S. activities in this period as a guide for contemporary events would do well to consult Parker's nuanced account.

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change. EDITED BY NORA BENSAHEL AND DANIEL L. BYMAN.

Santa Monica: Rand, 2004,

365 pp. $30.00. This collection offers an up-to-date re gional survey that seeks, with considerable success, to integrate many different issues and countries into an overview. Since Rand research is commissioned by the U.S. Air Force, this book may also be seen as both reflecting and influencing official U.S. thinking about the Middle

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