Review: Middle East: The Diplomacy of Patience
| Date | 01 March 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300120 |
| Published date | 01 March 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
In
assessing
the
impact
of
post-
however,
written
entirely
from
an
cold war
geography
and
of
techno-
Israeli
perspective.
Canadian
poli-
logical
change
on
the
region,
Kemp
cies
and
actions
are
judged
almost
and
Harkavy
have
successfully
risen
exclusively
in
terms
of
their
useful-
to
a
formidable
research
and
analyt-
ness
in
advancing
Israeli
interests
ical
challenge. However,
in
an
effort
and
purposes,
Canadian
politicians
to
cover
all
possible
eventualities,
and
officials
are
simplistically
they
occasionally
put
forward
sce-
divvied
up
into
two
camps,
'pro-
narios
which
if
not
implausible
are
Arab'
and
'pro-Israeli.'
The
notion
highly improbable
and
reminiscent
that
the
Canadian
government
of
some
of
the
least
convincing might
formulate
its
policies
on
the
'worst-case'
contingency
planning
basis
of
its
own
assessments
of
what
exercises
conducted
by
certain
mili-
was
best
for
Canada
or
of
its
own
tary
staffs
during
the cold
war.
This
appreciation
of
events
in
the
Middle
is
a
minor
defect
in
a
fine
piece
of
East
seems
to
escape
the
author
scholarship.
The
text
is
clearly
writ-
completely.
ten
and
is
supplemented
by
a
wide
array
of
notes, appendices,
maps,
and
tables,
enough
in
fact
to make
this
a
valuable
reference
work.
THE
DIPLOMACY
OF
PATIENCE
Canada
and
Israel
1948-1958
Zachariah
Kay
Montreal
and
Kingston:
McGill-
Queen's University
Press,
1996,
xiv,
1
35pp,
$44.95
Works
on
Canada's
relations
with
the
countries
of
the Middle
East are
relatively
few
and
any addition
to
this
sparse
literature would at
first
sight
seem
to be
a
welcome
develop-
ment.
But
there
are
additions
and
additions.
Zachariah
Kay's
examination
of
relations
between
Canada
and
Israel
from
1948
to
1968
purports
to be
a
study
of
Canadian
diplomacy. It
is,
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