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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Israeli History, Politics and Society |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Book Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1 Religion, identity and foreign policy; International relations: a historical perspective; Contending approaches in IR theory in the twentieth century; Conclusion; Notes; 2 A Jewish approach to foreign policy; Survival in Jewish tradition; Power enhancement; War in the Jewish political tradition; International order in a self-helpworld; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Jews and territory; The historical context; Ethno-religiousZionism; Political Zionism; Cultural versus religious Zionism |
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The first territorial debateThe second debate; Conclusion; Notes; 4 From community to state; Theoretical background to state formation; From diaspora to territoriality -- the Yishuv; Legitimacy; The institutional aspect of territoriality; Leadership; From the Yishuv to statehood; Dividing Jerusalem; Conclusion; Notes; 5 The foreign and national security policies of Israel; I Alliance politics; II Strategic depth 1949-1967; III Israel's wars 1949-1967; IV War and peace in the post 1967 era; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Palestinian and religious politics ascendant; The pre-stateera |
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Religion and politics in a Jewish stateThe traumas of the 1967 and 1973 wars; The transformation of religious nationalism; The theology of religious Zionism; The radicalization of religious Zionism; The Haredi religious parties; Shas, the Haredi Sephardi party; Religion and state in Israeli political life; Conclusion; Notes; 7 The Holocaust and the nuclear option; Holocaust theology; The Holocaust and the State of Israel; Jewish émigré scientists and the bomb; The nuclear dimension of pre-emptiveand preventive war; Ben-Gurionand the nuclear option |
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The war against the PLO in the shadow of a nuclear optionThe Iraq war and the Iranian nuclear threat; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Conclusion; Survival in the Jewish foreign policy tradition; Jewish identity and the land of Israel; Religion and the Jewish polity; The nuclear option; Jewish universalism; The Palestinian challenge; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"The conventional understanding of Israeli foreign policy has been that it is a relatively new phenomenon, with some claiming that the 'Jewish People' is an invention by mid-19th century Jewish historians, or simply an 'imagined community'. This book disputes these claims by demonstrating that the Jews have a tradition of foreign relations based on an historical political tradition that goes back thousands of years, and that this tradition has been carried over to the State of Israel. The Jewish political tradition in foreign policy has always been defensive-oriented, whether under sovereignty or in the Diaspora. Power has generally been only a means for achieving survival rather than a goal in itself, whereas Jewish national identity has always been related to historical Zion. In order to explore the question of whether it is possible to identify patterns of international behaviour in the foreign policy of the Jews, the book begins with the Bible and continues through the period of the First and Second Temples, then looks at the long generations when the Jewish people were stateless, and ultimately concludes with an examination of the sovereign Jewish state of Israel. The underlying assumption is that an understanding of these characteristics will allow us to derive a better understanding of the Jewish origins of Israel's foreign policy, which should in turn help to eliminate many of the harshest criticisms of Israel's foreign policy. By presenting a nuanced and intricate examination of longstanding Jewish foreign policy principles, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Israeli Studies, International Relations and anyone with an interest in the relationship between religion and foreign policy."--Provided by publisher |
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Judaism and international relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Middle Eastern.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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Diplomatic relations
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Judaism and international relations
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| SUBJECT |
Israel -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068694
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Israel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315194998 |
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1315194996 |
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