Abstract
Most aspects of Jordan’s foreign and domestic policies during the reign of King Hussein somehow are linked to relations with Israel. Jordan’s general alignment with the West during the Cold War often placed the Kingdom in a problematic position in intra-Arab politics against Israel. Moreover, the Palestinian question was both a domestic and a foreign policy issue that threatened the survival of the regime. Throughout his reign, King Hussein frequently relied on his charisma and charm in handling Jordan’s politics through his relationships with Israeli leaders—at first in secret and later publically.
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Notes
- 1.
Avi Shlaim, Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (London: Penguin, 2007), p. 251.
- 2.
Charles Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 29.
- 3.
Shlaim, pp. 360–363.
- 4.
Yehuda Lukacs, Israel, Jordan and the Peace Process (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), p. 183.
- 5.
Abdul Salam Al-Majali, et al. Peacemaking: The Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Treaty (London: Garnet Publishing, 2014), pp. 23–50.
- 6.
Shlaim, p. 527.
- 7.
“Treaty of Peace between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel” October 26, 1994, http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/peacetreaty.html, accessed 2 February 2018.
- 8.
Russell E. Lucas, “Jordan: The Death of Normalization with Israel,” Middle East Journal 58:1 (Winter 2004), pp. 97–98.
- 9.
Ibid., 106–108.
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Lucas, R.E. (2019). Jordanian-Israeli Relations Under King Hussein. In: Kumaraswamy, P.R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9166-8_26
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