Book Series in Politics & International Relations

Israeli History, Politics and Society

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Israel and the Family of Nations

The Jewish nation-state and human rights

By Alexander Yakobson, Amnon Rubinstein

Can Israel be both Jewish and truly democratic? How can a nation–state, which incorporates a large national minority with a distinct identity of its own...

ISBN: 978-0-415-46441-3 | Published July 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Israel's National Security

Issues and Challenges Since the Yom Kippur War

By Efraim Inbar

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of Israel's security challenges since the 1973 October War. Efraim Inbar takes the reader on a historical journey through...

ISBN: 978-0-415-44955-7 | Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Harp and the Shield of David

Ireland, Zionism and the State of Israel

By Shulamit Eliash

Eliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine’s partition and the delay in Ireland’s...

ISBN: 978-0-415-35035-8 | Published April 12th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

The Jordanian Factor

By Abraham Ben-Zvi

This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41045-8 | Published February 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry

1948 - 1963

By Ariel Feldestein

Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben-Gurion’s influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry...

ISBN: 978-0-415-37240-4 | Published September 19th 2006 by Routledge.

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Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads

Edited by Raphael Cohen-Almagor

In recent years, the discussion about Israel was dominated by post-Zionist, post-Israeli opinions. Important voices that represent large sectors of Israeli society were not heard. To...

ISBN: 978-0-415-35023-5 | Published July 21st 2005 by Routledge.

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Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads

Edited by Raphael Cohen-Almagor

This is a fascinating collection of essays about Israeli society and its institutions. It is written by practitioners who have experience and understanding, who are...

ISBN: 978-0-415-36360-0 | Published July 21st 2005 by Routledge.

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Israel at the Polls 2003

Edited by M. Ben Mollov, Jonathan Rynhold, Shmuel Sandler

Israel's 2003 election took place against the background of a deteriorating security situation (due to Palestinian violence and the impending US War in Iraq) and...

ISBN: 978-0-415-36019-7 | Published June 2nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Between Capital and Land

The Jewish National Fund's Finances and Land-Purchase Priorities in Palestine, 1939-1945

By Eric Engel Tuten

Tuten shows how the Jewish National Fund (JNF) proved to be flexible in its fundraising to obtain its land-purchase objectives during the Second World War. He provides...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5634-2 | Published March 31st 2005 by Routledge.

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War in Palestine, 1948

Israeli and Arab Strategy and Diplomacy

By David Tal

Arab involvement in the Jewish-Palestine conflict had started during the late 1930s, but it was only in the wake of the UN Partition Resolution of...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5275-7 | Published June 24th 2004 by Routledge.

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Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-57

By Natan Aridan

This book focuses on the bilateral and multilateral relations between Britain, the 'former proprietor' and Israel, the 'successor state', during the period following their armed...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5629-8 | Published June 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule

The Sherifian Solution

By Timothy J. Paris

Timothy Paris examines Winston Churchill's involvement in the struggle for power in a number of Middle Eastern countries between 1920 and 1925. His study traces...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5451-5 | Published May 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Israeli Identity

In Search of a Successor to the Pioneer, Tsabar and Settler

By Lilly Weissbrod

This thoroughly researched book reveals the true identity of the modern Israeli. Israelis are unique in having changed their identity three times in only one...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5376-1 | Published December 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Dissenting Democracy

The Israeli Movement 'Peace Now'

By Magnus Norell

A Dissenting Democracy explores the tension between the will of the whole of Israeli society and the right of the individual conscience to take precedence over that...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5350-1 | Published September 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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Decision on Palestine Deferred

America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945

By Monty Noam Penkower

Professor Penkower's latest book, Decision on Palestine Deferred, offers the first sustained, documented account of Palestine and the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War....

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5268-9 | Published July 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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Israeli Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace

By Mordechai Gazit

This account of key issues in Israel's foreign policy offers a new insight into Israeli thinking. It also covers issues where the focus is on...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5233-7 | Published April 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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Israeli-Romanian Relations at the End of the Ceausescu Era

As Seen by Israel's Ambassador to Romania 1985-1989

By Yosef Govrin

Yosef Govrin was the Israeli Ambassador to Romania in the twilight of the communist era. Govrin describes Israeli-Romanian relations as he observed them from 1985...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5234-4 | Published April 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000

By Ephraim Dowek

A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day....

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5162-0 | Published June 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Divided Against Zion

Anti-Zionist Opposition to the Creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948

By Rory Miller

Using primary sources, this study of the relationship between three anti-Zionist bodies in Britain in the years that directly preceded the founding of the State...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5051-7 | Published October 30th 2000 by Routledge.

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Parties, Elections and Cleavages

Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective

Edited by Reuven Y. Hazan, Moshe Maor

This volume brings together a set of articles on parties, elections and social cleavages that address theoretical aspects of these concepts with reference to Israel,...

ISBN: 978-0-7146-5076-0 | Published April 29th 2000 by Routledge.

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Fabricating Israeli History

The 'New Historians'

ISBN: 978-0-7146-4274-1 | Published March 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Series Details:

Edited by Efraim Karsh, Kings College London, UK

This series provides a multidisciplinary examination of all aspects of Israeli history, politics and society, and serves as a means of communication between the various communities interested in Israel: academics, policy-makers; practitioners; journalists and the informed public.

Forthcoming Titles:

Politics of Memory: Israeli Underground's Confrontations Over Boundaries of State Pantheon
By Udi Lebel
August 1st 2009