Guyatt, Nicholas.The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. St. Martin's, 1998. Explains the historical context of the Oslo peace efforts and the motives and interests of the various players, regional and international, who are party to the agreements.
Rabinovich, Itamar.The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations. Princeton University Press, 1998. The author places the reader at the negotiating table in this balanced and informative perspective on the subject of peace between Israel and Syria.
Rabinovich, Itamar.Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. Survey of Israeli-Arab relations from the founding of Israel in 1948 to the tentative peace process of the 1990s. Written by a former Israeli ambassador to the United States.
Stein, Kenneth W.Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest. Routledge, 1999. Chronicles the evolution of Israeli-Arab negotiations and analyzes the personalities of the key players and the contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the United States, and Russia.
Wallach, Janet, and John Wallach.Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder. Rev. ed. Diane Publishing, 1999. Arafat and his role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.