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What caused the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973?
Swedish Defence University.
2024 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Israel have been a particularly war-ridden state, since its inception in 1948 the Israelis had already fought five different wars in its first 30 years of existence. This essay aims to investigate the cause of two of these wars that had both been fought with Egypt. The 1967 six-days war and the Yom-Kippur war of 1973.To try and answer this question this essay uses Stephen Van Everas stability theory which tries to explain how states act when presented with a first move advantage. The study concludes that the main causes of these wars was hasty and truncated diplomacy combined with a lucrative first-strike advantage. The six-day war started as a result of Egyptian posturing turned to dreams of conquest and the Yom-kippur as a result of bitter resentment for the new status quo and total lack of diplomatic negotiations.

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2024. , p. 33
Keywords [en]
Israel, Egypt, Causes of War, Six-day war, Yom-kippur war, Stability theory
Keywords [sv]
Israel, Egypten, Orsaker till krig, sexdagars kriget, Yom-kippur kriget, stabilitets teori
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-12617OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-12617DiVA, id: diva2:1877470
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War Studies, Thesis
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Officersprogrammet (OP)
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Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2024-06-26 Created: 2024-06-25 Last updated: 2024-06-26Bibliographically approved

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