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Israel and Hizbollah
An Asymmetric Conflict in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Series: Middle Eastern Military Studies
This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon. Since the end of the Cold War, academic debate over the nature of war in the contemporary world has focused upon the asymmetric nature of...
Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Between Terrorism and Civil War
The al-Aqsa Intifada
This volume seeks to explore whether the current violence, its origins and dynamics can best be understood as a manifestation of civil war. In so doing, it considers how the use of violence by all parties has been conditioned and/or constrained by the domestic factors pertaining to their societies,...
Published March 1st 2007 by Routledge
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Israel
Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State
Series: The Contemporary Middle East
Often regarded as the only true manifestation of political pluralism in the contemporary Middle East, the state of Israel has dominated the history and politics of the region for over fifty years. Yet despite its position as a regional superpower, Israel continues to struggle with the whole issue...
Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge
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International Security Issues in a Global Age
Securing the Twenty-first Century
This volume examines the new, the changing, and the enduring features of international security in the post-Cold War era. In so doing, it examines the extent to which present state structures and institutions have been able to adapt and accommodate themselves to the diversity of security threats....
Published October 31st 2000 by Routledge
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Soviet Jewish Aliyah, 1989-92
Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East
This book provides new insights into a period of fundamental change in Israel and the Middle East. It explains how the Israeli government failed to effectively handle the integration of new emigres from the Soviet Union, and how it alienated traditional Likud supporters among Oriental Jews in...
Published March 31st 1996 by Routledge