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Identifier	Thesis 1606
Author	Polson, William R
Title	The White House backdoor : the Carter administration's secret contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization / William R. Polson
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2000
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	STATEMENT OF PURPOSE To examine the Carter administration's attempts to bring peace to the Middle East from 1977 to 1980 by secretly contacting the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The specific question this paper wants to answer is "What role did secret contacts with the PLO play in the Carter administration's Middle East policy?" RELATIONSHIP OF STUDY TO RELATED RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF PERTINENT RESEARCH (LITERATURE REVIEW) The thesis will break new ground in the study of the Carter administration's Middle East policy by focusing on secret contacts with the PLO. A great quantity of material has been written on Carter's mainstream (ie. open negotiations through normal diplomatic channels) approach to dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict. One of the most recognized experts on the subject is William Quandt (a senior fellow in the Brookings Institute Foreign Policy Studies program and a National Security Council staff member from 1977 to mid 1979). Quandt has published a plethora of books, including Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics, The Middle East: Ten Years After Camp David, and The Peace Process, which all depict a comprehensive picture of Carter's foreign policy. However, Quandt, like many other authors that follow him, writes about Carter's Middle East policy by focusing on his mainstream negotiations with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. To his credit, Quandt provides some of the best recorded information on secret contacts between Carter and PLO chairman Yassir Arafat. He gives the best detailed account of one of these "backdoor" secret contacts; Landrum Bolling, Carter's primary "backdoor to Arafat. However, Quandt stops short of exploring in depth this lesser known aspect of American foreign policy during the late 1970s. For students of American foreign policy in the Middle East, this leaves a somewhat disappointing gap in the understanding of these contacts - especially considering his background, connections and personal knowledge of the events in the Carter White House. Other authors also make mention of these contacts, but do not delve into a more completion discussion. Fred J. Khouri, author of The Arab-Israeli Dilemma, makes several mentions of secret contacts in his review of American involvement in the Middle East. Another storehouse of similar tidbits can be found in Steven L. Spiegel's The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict, which explores White House Middle East policy from President Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. STATEMENT OF NEED My thesis examines one aspect of American-PLO relations during their early stages under the Carter administration. This topic is especially timely now as President Clinton meets with Palestine National Authority President Arafat to find a solution for the Palestinian homeland question that eluded Carter approximately 30 years ago. The study of Carter-Arafat contacts will hopefully grow in importance as American historians specializing in the Middle East expand their studies of this relationship in this time. This paper hopes to fill this need: to provide an initial collection of information and insight about U.S.-PLO secret contacts during the Carter administration, and to offer a starting point for future researchers of this topic.
Subject	Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States Carter, Jimmy, 1924- Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Mezvinsky, Norton
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	45278042
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