Book Description

This report represents an interim statement on research accomplished during the second phase of the study, covering the period 1 October 1965-30 September 1966. Chapter One of this report describes the historical background of the Suez crisis and carries the narrative through the entire five periods of this study. Nearly seventy-five thousand words of documents authored by top leaders in Egypt and Israel during periods two (28 October-10 November 1956) and three (11 November-25 November 1956) were content analyzed by the IBM 7090 computer. A preliminary report on these attitudinal data is presented in Chapter Two. The results of scaling action data for the period 25 October-25 November 1956 is reported in Chapter Three. A technique for scaling international events and for comparing the results of two or more situations is described in Chapter Four. Chapter Five reports on the content analysis program developed during the past year which resolves a number of difficulties previously existing. Chapter Six summarizes a theoretical study on a concept of major importance to our analysis of the Middle East crisis: hostility. (Author).