1. t h e u n i v e r s i t y o f t e x a s at a u s t i n
Between 1967 and 1975 the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) burst onto the world stage and
transformed the contours of the Arab-Israeli dispute.
By casting itself as a national liberation movement and
forging ties to other revolutionary groups around the
Third World, the PLO won international attention
and diplomatic support. However, the PLO’s political
victories in the international arena ran headlong into
U.S. and Israeli efforts to contain the revolutionary
organization on the ground.
Paul Thomas Chamberlin is associate professor of
History at the University of Kentucky. His first book,
The Global Offensive:The United States, the Palestine
Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-
Cold War Order was published by Oxford University
Pressin2012.Heiscurrentlyworkingonaninternational
history of the Cold War in the Third World titled The
ColdWar’s Killing Fields:The Superpower Struggle and
the Destruction of the Third World.
P O L I C Y
L E C T U R E
S E R I E S
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN, PH.D.
THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF PALESTINIAN LIBERATION, 1967-1975
20 NOVEMBER 2013 4:00 PM GARRISON HALL 4.100
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern
Studies, the Lyndon B. Johnson
School of Public Affairs, and the
Clements Center for History,
Strategy and Statecraft.