ABSTRACT
This chapter compares Egyptian-Israeli interaction sequences in two wars: the June war of 1967 and the October war of 1973. It identifies which unidimensional and which multidimensional interactions occurred in the course of these intense and escalating conflicts. The chapter undertakes a mode of analysis first proposed by McClelland (1961) in his influential article on the acute international crisis. McClelland suggested a way of diagraming crisis interactions so as to represent, among other things, the extent to which a nation’s policymakers depart from kind-for-kind responses to provocations from an adversary. Five categories of behavior that form the basis for analyzing crisis interaction are yield or conciliate (YC), verbal conflict (VC), diplomatic activity (DA), conflictual action (CA), and armed attack (AA).
