Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947
Published in 2018, the book is available from Lexington and is now out in paperback. The book is arguably the first to provide a comparative look at how the conflict between Israel, the Arabs and the Palestinians are viewed beyond the West.
It documents how several countries which would one day become the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) responded to the conflict and why they failed to offer alternative responses.
“It is truly impressive that Burton mastered knowledge of such a temporal and geographic reach: seven decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as domestic and foreign policies of these five BRICS states.”
“Guy Burton’s book is a highly timely and readable account of the rising powers’ policies vis-à-vis the Arab-Israeli conflict. The emergence of regional powers in the post-Cold War global setting has spurred an increasing volume of literature on their Middle Eastern policies.”
“The author’s historical description is brilliant and pointed, and his (perhaps too) brief analysis that concludes every historical chapter is also very illuminating.”
“...the reconceptualization of the conflict from the 1940s to the 2000s through a BRICS eyepiece presents us with most interesting insights. Let’s call Guy Burton’s new book a real eye opener.”