Event

The Oslo Accord 30 Years on: Anatomy of Failure

Date
7 Nov 2023
Time
14:15 UK time
Speakers
Avi Shlaim
Where
St Antony's College, Middle East Centre, Board Room, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Series
Israel Studies Seminar
Audience
Members of the University only
Booking
Not required
Avi Shlaim will examine the motives of Israel and the PLO for signing the Oslo Accord; the terms of the accord, the implementation of the accord; and the reasons for the breakdown of the Oslo peace process. The reassessment will draw on recently declassified Israeli records'

Avi Shlaim is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (1988); War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (1995); The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000, updated edition 2014); Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (2007); Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009); and Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew (2023).