Foreign Policy and the Search for National Identity

Abstract

The geographic and historic setting Egypt responds to the West - Pan-Islam, Egyptian nationalism and Arabism Nasser and the rise of Arab nationalism in Egypt Sadat and his early foreign policy the October War and its aftermath oil diplomacy and Arab reconciliation eight players in search of a peace conference - the Geneva preparations of 1977 the road to Jerusalem Camp David and its consequences the making of a new Arab coalition foreign policy and the search for national identity Arab politics and the peace process.