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The Brink of Peace
Princeton University Press, 1998 The Brink of Peace does an excellent job of placing the reader at the negotiating table between Israel...


The View from Damascus
Vallentine Mitchell, 2009 The View from Damascus Sheds new light on the recent history and current politics and policies of this...


The Lingering Conflict
In The Lingering Conflict, Itamar Rabinovich, a former chief negotiator for Israel, provides unique and authoritative insight into the...


Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
March 5, 2017 An insider’s perspective on the life and influence of Israel’s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace...


Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath
By Itamar Rabinovich and Carmit Valensi The Syrian Civil War threw the country, as well as the entire region, into chaos and bloodshed. A...
The Compact Minorities and the Syrian State, 1918-1945
Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 14, 1979, pp.693-712.
Syria, Palestine and Israel, 1945-1977
The Wiener Library Bulletin, Vol. 31, 1978, pp. 135-141.
Historiography and Politics in Syria
Asian Affairs, 1, 1978, pp. 56-66.
The Limits of Military Power: Syria's Role
in E. Haley and L. Snider, Lebanon in Crisis (Syracuse, 1979), pp. 55-73.
Lebanon
(with H. Zamir) in C. Legum and H. Shaked (eds.), Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol I and II, pp. 492-521 and 603-622.
Damascus, the Islamic Wave
The Washington Quarterly, Vol. II, 4, 1979, pp. 139-143.
The Problem of South Lebanon
in ibid., Vol. II, pp. 185-197.
The Challenge of Diversity – the US and the System of Inter-Arab Relations
in H. Shaked and I. Rabinovich (eds.), The Middle East and the United States (New Brunswick, N.J. 1980).
Religion and Nationalism in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon
Social Praxis, 1978 (3-4), pp. 243-257.
The Soviet Union and Syria, The Limits of Co-operation
in Y. Ro'i (ed.) The Limits of Power (London, 1979), pp. 212-231.
Inter-Arab Relations Foreshadowed: The Question of the Syrian Throne in the 1920's and 1030's
Festschrift in Honor of Dr. George S. Wise (Tel Aviv, 1981), pp. 237-250.
The Autonomy Plan and Negotiations for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in their Political Context
In Y. Dinstein (ed.) Models of Autonomy (New Brunswick, N.J., 1981). Pp. 261-281.
The Security Policy of Syria
in Y. Harkabi and El Kokodziej (eds.) Security Politics of Developing Nations (Lexington, Mass., 1981), pp. 267-282.
The Foreign Policy of Syria: Goals, Capabilities and Restraints
Survival, July 1982.
Israel and the Western Alliance
in S. Spiegel (ed.), The Middle East and the Western Alliance (London, Boston, Sydney, 1982), -p. 197-206.
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