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<br> Paul Chamberlin's The Global Offensive moves from the camps of the Palestinian refugees to the air conditioned offices of the White House, from the deliberations of the Vietnamese guerrillas to the calculations of Tel Aviv's political elite. Drawn from an array of archives, Chamberlin's narrative teaches us that international relations is not simply the whimsy of states but that it is constrained and enabled by the dreams and frustrations of ordinary people forced to be extraordinary because of their circumstances. A brilliant study of how the Palestinian liberation struggle moved from the valleys of the Levant onto the world stage. --Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World<p><br> With balanced and comprehensive scholarship, Paul Chamberlin traces the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat, the widening gap of generations in both Israel and the Arab world, and the dilemmas of the U.S. government as Lebanon descended into civil war. The GlobalOffensive is a masterly account of the worldwide as well as the regional dimension of Arab-Israeli conflict in the critical decades of the 1960s and 1970s. --Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin<p><br> Chamberlin is the first to frame the story of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a truly global context, and in so doing he sheds startling new light on his subject. He shows how the Palestinian struggle in the 1960s and 1970s was embedded in global revolutionary networks that stretched from Cuba to Vietnam, and argues convincingly for its centrality in the drama of Cold War decolonization and the transformation of international relations in this era. This book is not only a rare judicious intervention in the history of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians; it is also a superb contribution to postwar international history writ large. --Erez Manela, author of The Wilsonian Moment<p><br> A major contribution to understanding US fo

<br> Paul Chamberlin's The Global Offensive moves from the camps of the Palestinian refugees to the air conditioned offices of the White House, from the deliberations of the Vietnamese guerrillas to the calculations of Tel Aviv's political elite. Drawn from an array of archives, Chamberlin's narrative teaches us that international relations is not simply the whimsy of states but that it is constrained and enabled by the dreams and frustrations of ordinary people forced to be extraordinary because of their circumstances. A brilliant study of how the Palestinian liberation struggle moved from the valleys of the Levant onto the world stage. --Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World<p><br> With balanced and comprehensive scholarship, Paul Chamberlin traces the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat, the widening gap of generations in both Israel and the Arab world, and the dilemmas of the U.S. government as Lebanon descended into civil war. The GlobalOffensive is a masterly account of the worldwide as well as the regional dimension of Arab-Israeli conflict in the critical decades of the 1960s and 1970s. --Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin<p><br> Chamberlin is the first to frame the story of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a truly global context, and in so doing he sheds startling new light on his subject. He shows how the Palestinian struggle in the 1960s and 1970s was embedded in global revolutionary networks that stretched from Cuba to Vietnam, and argues convincingly for its centrality in the drama of Cold War decolonization and the transformation of international relations in this era. This book is not only a rare judicious intervention in the history of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians; it is also a superb contribution to postwar international history writ large. --Erez Manela, author of The Wilsonian Moment<p><br> Paul Chamberlin's history of the relationsh

The Global Offensive makes a laudable contribution to the growing body of scholarship that places the developing world and transnational actors at the forefront of international politics, rather than treating them as peripheral, secondary actors or curiosities. --Jeffrey James Byrne, H-Diplo By establishing connections between the PLO and other revolutionary nationalist groups that most historians have either previously ignored or failed to recognize, Chamberlin has written a true work of transnational history that includes discussion of the United States, Palestinians, Israel, Vietnam, China, Algeria, and South Africa. By establishing connections between the PLO and other revolutionary nationalist groups that most historians have either previously ignored or failed to recognize, Chamberlin has written a true work of transnational history that includes discussion of the United States, Palestinians, Israel, Vietnam, China, Algeria, and South Africa. --Craig Daigle, H-Diplo Chamberlin's most innovative move is simply to insist that we view the PLO as part of a larger landscape of third-world revolutionaries and the global radical left, of which it viewed itself a part, and not merely as a subset of the Arab-Israeli struggle or the history of Arab nationalism and decolonization. --Bradley Simpson, H-Diplo The Global Offensive would be quite valuable for undergraduate and graduate history courses on the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, or twentieth-century global history. Students and teachers would undoubtedly benefit from the balance of narrative and argumentation buttressed by clearly written explanations of key players and events. Most importantly, the book offers an opportunity for teacher and students to engage in questions regarding the latter decades of the twentieth century as less of a coda for the post-World War II global order and more as a beginning point toward understanding the twenty-first century. --Teaching Hi

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Paul Chamberlin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.

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