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This book comprises findings from the author´s wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict. Brecher reflects back on his detailed analysis of the UN Commission created in November 1947, and his near-seven decades of research and publications on this complex protracted conflict continued since the first of nine Arab/Israeli wars. The book includes an analysis of the crucial early phase of the unresolved struggle for control of Jerusalem in 1948-49 and beyond, based on extensive interviews with Israel´s leaders and prominent Egyptian senior officials, journalists and academics. It addresses the many diverse attempts at conflict resolution, including a peace plan to resolve the Arab/Israel conflict of the author´s own design. It concludes with historical reflections about Israel´s behavior, domestically and externally, in 1948-1949 and 2008 and beyond. No other book on this protracted conflict contains so many important interviews with the first two generations of Israeli leaders and Egyptian officials and academics, and no other author can speak from such a deep and prolonged engagement.

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1. Introduction
2. Historical Roots
3. Struggle for Jerusalem
4. Arab-Israel Perceptions
5. Israeli Leaders´ Perceptions of the Arabs, the Arab-Israel Conflict, and Peace: Formative Generation, 1948-1977
6. Encounters with Arab Intellectuals and Officials: Views of Israel, Palestine, and Their Conflict (1975)
7. Conflict-Sustaining Acts in the Arab-Israel PC
8. The Arab-Israel Military Balance: 1967 and 1973
9. Crises Within the Arab-Israel PC: 1948-2014
10. Israel´s Behavior in 1967 and 1973 Wars: Overall Findings
11. Evidence on Conflict Resolution: Partial Agreements and Overall Failed Attempts, 1937-2014
12. Assessments of the Way Out
13. Israel at 68: Beneath the Glitter

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Michael Brecher has authored 20 books and 85 articles, and edited 6 books in International Relations and Political Science, including two prestigious book awards, from the American Historical Association, for Nehru: A Political Biography (1959), and the Woodrow Wilson Prize, American Political Science Association, for the best book in politics and international affairs, The Foreign Policy System of Israel (1972). He has received Nuffield, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Canada Council Research Fellowships, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, USA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Stanford University, USA.

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