Israel S Odd Couple

Author : Raphael Israeli
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781949483673

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The Odd Couple by Raphael Israeli Pdf

The Odd Couple details the ups and downs in the tortuous relations between modern Turkey and Israel. The central actor in the book is Tayyip Erdogan, who came to power in Turkey in 2002-2003, determined to turn the clock back and return his country to its pre-Ataturk glory, when the Ottoman Dynasty reigned supreme and Islam was the dominant ideology holding the Empire together. To understand the aberrant relationship between the Jewish state of Israel and the Islamic state of Turkey, and the preponderant role of Tayyip Erdogan in its deterioration, one must dig into the Ottoman past, the historical attitudes of Turks to Jews, and the shift in Turkish policies that was effected by the transition from the modern Turkish civil governments up to 2002 to the vast changes that the Islamic parties of Erbakan and Erdogan have triggered thereafter. This is the story of how one man can alter relations between two countries.

Author : Sujata Ashwarya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429536236

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Israel’s Mediterranean Gas by Sujata Ashwarya Pdf

This book examines the internal and external implications of Israel’s natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean. The nation’s changed status from being an importer of coal and oil to that of an exporter of natural gas has consequences not only for the energy sector but also for the fragile geopolitics of the region. The book: Explores the challenges and issues of energy economics and governance; Analyses Israel’s gas diplomacy with its neighbours in the Middle East and North Africa and its potential positive impact on the amelioration of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Studies how Israel can avoid the deleterious impact of the Dutch disease once the government’s share of the export revenues start flowing. The author traces a consummate picture of history, politics, and conflicts that shape the economics of energy in Israel and its future trajectories. A major intervention in Middle East studies, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of energy studies, development studies, strategic studies, politics, diplomacy, and international relations. It will also be of interest to government agencies, think-tanks, and risk management firms.

Author : Asher Arian,Alan Arian,Michal Shamir,Professor Michal Shamir
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791421759

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The Elections in Israel 1992 by Asher Arian,Alan Arian,Michal Shamir,Professor Michal Shamir Pdf

Social scientist from Israel and American universities and research Institutes address questions discussed in the 1992 elections.

Author : Jonathan Mendilow
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791487501

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Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001 by Jonathan Mendilow Pdf

Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s. The tumultuous and rapid political change experienced by Israel since 1965 has been reflected in the history of its party system. In this book, Jonathan Mendilow examines the party and party system transformations through the lens of the electoral campaigns that defined and reflected them. He shows that the relative stability of the dominant party system bequeathed from the pre-independence era was shattered in the 1960s, and replaced by cluster parties that vied for power in the ideological center, only to decline and be replaced in turn in the 1980s and early 1990s by ideological party blocs locked in centrifugal competition. With the separate direct election of the prime minister since the mid-1990s, there has been yet a third profound realignment in party structures, ideologies, and modes of campaigning, according to Mendilow. Jonathan Mendilow is Professor of Political Science at Rider University. He is the author of The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought, and the editor of Political Theory From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism.

Author : Shmuel Sandler,Manfred Gerstenfeld,Hillel Frisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317966296

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Israel at the Polls 2009 by Shmuel Sandler,Manfred Gerstenfeld,Hillel Frisch Pdf

This book describes political and sociological developments in Israel before and after the February 2009 elections, alongside an analysis of electoral trends. It provides an effective analysis of contemporary political and sociological Israeli history. Rather than focusing narrowly on electoral politics alone, this book broadens its focus to make it relevant to undergraduate and graduate students in Middle Eastern, Israeli and Jewish studies and the liberal arts. Israel at the Polls has been updated and published annually for thirty years, providing readers with up-to-date analysis and continuity of scholarship; this book offers an expert long-term assessment of Israeli politics. This book was published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.

Author : Giora Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135769031

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Ben-Gurion Against the Knesset by Giora Goldberg Pdf

The power struggle between Ben-Gurion and the Knesset was not primarily concerned with who should hold the reins of power, but with the ideals that should lie behind government. Ben-Gurion did not think that the Knesset had the moral backbone required at a historic turning-point in Israeli history, when the character of the nation was being developed; although he conceded that it was capable of dealing with the more mundane administrative tasks. He therefore denied the Knesset the right to take part in the policy-making process, caused a decline in the support of the elite and the general public, encouraged partisanship, and endeavored to reduce competitiveness. Ben-Gurion was so dismissive of the Knesset and its members, that he would not even attend parties at which Knesset members were being given awards.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000090159884

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AF Press Clips by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory S. Mahler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742568280

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Politics and Government in Israel by Gregory S. Mahler Pdf

This even-handed and thorough text explores Israeli government and politics. First tracing the history and development of the state, Mahler then examines the social, religious, economic, and cultural contexts within which Israeli politics takes place. The book explains the operation of political institutions and behavior in Israeli domestic politics, as well as Israel's foreign policy setting and apparatus, the Palestinian conflict and the question of Jerusalem, and the Middle East peace process overall. This clear and concise text provides an invaluable starting point for all readers needing a cogent introduction to Israel today.

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804150491

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A History of Israel by Howard M. Sachar Pdf

First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. More than 30 years later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work. The second edition of this volume covers topics such as the first of the Aliyahs in the 1880s; the rise of Jewish nationalism; the beginning of the political Zionist movement and, later, how the movement changed after Theodor Herzl; the Balfour Declaration; the factors that led to the Arab-Jewish confrontation; Palestine and its role both during the Second World War and after; the war of independence and the many wars that followed it over the next few decades; and the development of the Israeli republic and the many challenges it faced, both domestic and foreign, and still faces today. This is a truly enriching and exhaustive history of a nation that holds claim to one of the most complicated and controversial histories in the world.

Author : Shlomo Deshen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438400907

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Blind People by Shlomo Deshen Pdf

Blind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, much the way anthropology approaches people of different culture. While deeply empathic to its subject matter, Blind People raises questions that anthropologists ask routinely, but which are commonly avoided in everyday life because they touch on sensitive matters. Based on fieldwork in Israel, the book constitutes an ethnography of blind Israelis. It starts by focusing on intimate issues of the management of the sightless body, goes on to discuss the role of the blind person in the domestic setting, and moves to issues of how the blind person strives to attain material requirements. Finally, the book relates the way blind people cope with problems of associating with both blind and sighted people in arenas of leisure activity and public affairs. Deshen's book aims to present a truthful, dignified, fully human depiction, in the tradition of socio-cultural anthropology.

Author : Ehud Eilam
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498575645

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Israel’s Military Doctrine by Ehud Eilam Pdf

This book examines the transition in Israel’s military doctrine and analyzes Israel’s conflict with hybrid forces since 2006 compared with the high intensity wars in 1948–1982.

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814794944

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The Modern Jewish Experience by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have proliferated at institutions of higher learning around the world since the 1960s. From the vantage point of the nineties, it is difficult to fathom that until thirty years ago, Jewish studies courses were mainly limited to a few elite universities, rabbinical seminaries, and Hebrew teachers' colleges. Today there are few colleges at public or private insitutions of higher learning that do not sponsor at least some courses on aspects of Jewish study. In light of this explosion of research on Jewish topics, non-specialists and educators can benefit from guidance through the thicket of new monographs, source anthologies, textbooks and scholarly essays. The Modern Jewish Experience, the result of a multi-year collaboration between the International Center for the University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, offers just such guidance on a range of issues pertaining to modern Jewish history, culture, religion, and society. With contributions from two dozen leading scholars, The Modern Jewish Experience presents practical information and guidelines intended to expand the teaching repertoire for undergraduate courses on modern Jewish life, as well as a means for college professors to enrich and diversify their courses with discussions on otherwise neglected Jewish communities, social and political issues, religious and ideological movements, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Sample syllabi are also included for survey courses set in diverse linguistic settings. An indispensible resource for undergraduate instruction, this volume may also be used to great profit by educators of adults in synagogue and Jewish communal settings, as well as by individual students engaged in private study.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar,Shmuel Sandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Coalition governments
ISBN : UOM:39015018958259

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Israel's Odd Couple by Daniel Judah Elazar,Shmuel Sandler Pdf

Israel's Odd Couple analyzes the unusual 1984 Knesset elections and the unique government that resulted. For the first time in Israel's political history, the Jewish state emerged from an election so close that no major party could form a ruling coalition. The National Unity Government that emerged was based on a coalition that represented the two opposing blocs and three camps of Israeli society. The ten essays assembled here by editors Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler describe and analyze these two major events and processes in Israel's electoral and political behavior. In the first part of the book, five Israeli political scientists and sociologists focus on the main actors and forces that participated in the 1984 elections: Likud, Labor, the religious parties, and the ethnic and Arab votes. Another chapter is dedicated to electoral financing. The second part of the book explores several aspects of the National Unity Government. In spite of the difficult circumstances surrounding its creation, the National Unity Government, against all expectations, served for the longest period in Israel's political history. At the same time, it was unable to resolve deeply rooted problems and cleavages in the Israeli polity.

Author : Robert O Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720376

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Israel Under Rabin by Robert O Freedman Pdf

The 1992 elections represented a watershed in Israeli politics. Returning to power for the first time in fifteen years, the Labor government, under Yitzhak Rabin, has implemented significant changes in foreign policy and domestic politics. Perhaps the most important changes were Israel's recognition of the PLO and the signing of the Declaration of

Author : Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Shmuel Sandler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791452468

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed by Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Shmuel Sandler Pdf

Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.