The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order

by Paul Thomas Chamberlin

Book Overview

On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan. They suffered terrible casualties, but they won a stunning symbolic victory that transformed Arafat into an Arab hero and allowed him to launch a worldwide campaign, one that would reshape Cold War diplomacy and revolutionary movements everywhere...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190217820
• ISBN13: 9780190217822
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"