Books and Documents

Alon, Yoav. The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Bar-Joseph, Uri. The Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2013.

Garfinkle, Adam M. Israel and Jordan in the Shadow of War: Functional Ties and Futile Diplomacy in a Small Place. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992.

Gelber, Yoav. Jewish-Transjordanian Relations, 1921-48. United Kingdom: Frank Cass, 1997.

Ginat, Joseph, and Onn Winckler. Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli Triangle: Smoothing the Path to Peace. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 1998.

Israeli, Raphael. Palestinians Between Israel and Jordan: Squaring the Triangle. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 1991.

Israeli-Jordan Treaty, excerpts, Center for Israel Education, October 1994.

Jordanian King Abduallah II and Donald Trump press conference, Center for Israel Education, February 2025.

Karsh, Efraim, and ‎P.R. Kumaraswamy. Israel, the Hashemites, and the Palestinians: The Fateful Triangle. London: Frank Cass, 2003.

Kleiman, Aaron. Israel, Jordan, Palestine: The Search for a Durable Peace. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981.

Lukacs, Yehuda. Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

London Document, agreement between Israel and Jordan on an international conference, Center for Israel Education, April 1987.

Mishal, Shaul. Investment in Peace: Politics of Economic Cooperation Between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.

Nasser, Riad M. Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary “Others” in the Making of a Nation. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Al-Oran, Mutayyam. Jordanian-Israeli Relations: The Peace Building Experience. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Plascov, Avi. The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, 1948–1957. London: Frank Cass, 1981.

Raz, Avi. The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Rifai, Zaid. Ken Stein interview with former Jordanian prime minister, Center for Israel Education, January 1993.

Schäfer, Philip Jan. Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2013.

Shlaim, Avi. Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Susser, Asher. Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012.

Susser, Asher. Jordan, Palestine and the Politics of Collective Identity: A History, an 18-page excerpt. Lynne Rienner, 2024.

Wolf, Aaron T. Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River: Scarce Water and Its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1995.

Articles

Abdullah II of Jordan and Robert Satloff, “Jordan’s King Abdullah II Addresses Key Mideast Issues in Exclusive Washington Institute Interview,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 27, 2019.

Alon, Yoav, “The Tribal System in the Face of the State-Formation Process: Mandatory Transjordan, 1921-46,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37, No. 2 (2005): 213-240.

Bailey, Clinton, “Changing Attitudes Towards Jordan in the West Bank,” Middle East Journal, 32, No. 2 (Spring 1978): 155-166.

Baker, Alan, “Can Jordan Revoke Its Peace Treaty With Israel?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 19, 2020.

Ben-Dror, Elad, “The Armistice Talks Between Israel and Jordan, 1949: The View From Rhodes,” Middle Eastern Studies, 48, No. 6 (2012): 879-902.

Susser, Asher, and Ghaith al-Omari, “Changes and Continuities in the Israel-Jordan Relationship” (43 minutes), Center for Israel Education webinar, January 31, 2023.

Eran, Oded, “Israel-Jordan: The Peace Agreement’s 20th Anniversary,” INSS Insight, No. 621, 2014.

Frisch, Hillel, “Jordan and the Palestinian Authority: Did Better Fences Make Better Neighbors?” Middle East Journal, 58, No. 1 (2004): 52-71.

Frisch, Hillel, and Yitzhak Sokoloff, “Trump, the Mideast Conflict, and the Jordanian Option,” BESA Center, February 6, 2017.

Gazit, Mordechai, “The Israel-Jordan Peace Negotiations (1949-51): King Abdallah’s Lonely Effort,” Journal of Contemporary History, 23, No. 3 (1988): 409-424.

Gil-Har, Yitzhak, “Boundaries Delimitation: Palestine and Trans-Jordan,” Middle Eastern Studies, 36, No. 1 (2000): 68-81.

Inbari, Pinhas, “Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood Have Their Sights on the West Bank and Jordan,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 23, 2014.

Israel State Archives, “An Honourable Peace, a Balanced Peace, a Peace That Will Last,” documents from the Israel-Jordan treaty process, 2024.

Knight, Kate, and David Pollock, “Domestic Reform Still Top Issue for Jordanians; Most Reject New Peace Deals With Israel, but Perceived Value of U.S. Ties Up Sharply,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 18, 2020.

Levey, Zach, “United States Arms Policy Toward Jordan, 1963-68,” Journal of Contemporary History, 41, No. 3 (2006): 527-543.

Price, David, “Jordan and Palestinians: The PLO’s Prospects.” Conflict Studies, 66, December 1975: 525-556.

Reguer, Sara, “Controversial Waters: Exploitation of the Jordan River, 1950-80,” Middle Eastern Studies, 29, No. 1 (1993): 53-90.

Rubinovitz, Ziv, “Blue and White ‘Black September’: Israel’s Role in the Jordan Crisis of 1970,” The International History Review, 32, No. 4 (2010): 687-706.

Satloff, Robert, Jawad Anani, and Shimon Shamir, “Jordan-Israel Peace at Twenty-Five: Past, Present and Future,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 2019.

Shelef, Nadav, “From ‘Both Banks of the Jordan’ to the ‘Whole Land of Israel’: Ideological Change in Revisionist Zionism,” Israel Studies, 9, No. 1 (2004): 125-148.

Shemesh, Moshe, “On Two Parallel Tracks — The Secret Jordanian-Israeli Talks (July 1967-September 1973),” Israel Studies, 15, No. 3 (2010): 87-120.

Stein, Ken, “The Jordanian, Israeli and Palestinian Triangle,” Center for Israel Education, January 26, 2023.

Stein, Ken, “The Jordanian-Israeli Treaty at 25: Geography, Location and Mutual Interest,” Center for Israel Education, 2019 (includes excellent bibliography of a dozen items for more learning).

Susser, Asher, “Israel’s Place in a Changing Regional Order (1948–2013),” Israel Studies, 19, No. 2 (2014): 218-238.

Susser, Asher, “Jordan and the Islamic State Challenge,” Institute for National Security Studies, 2015.

Susser, Asher, “Jordan 2011: Uneasy Lies the Head,” Middle East Brief, Brandeis University, June 2011.

Susser, Asher, “Jordan Facing Up to the ISIS Challenge: A Net Assessment,” Middle East Brief, Brandeis University, April 2015.

Tal, Lawrence, “Peace for Jordan?” The World Today, 49, Nos. 8/9 (1993): 168-171.