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1. The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security

   Domestic and international ramifications

   Edited by Efraim Inbar

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring. Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too early...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Israeli Statecraft

   National Security Challenges and Responses

   By Yehezkel Dror

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   This book offers a systematic examination, analysis and evaluation of Israeli national security statecraft in terms of challenges and responses. Providing an in-depth analysis of Israeli statecraft challenges and responses, this interdisciplinary book integrates social science and security studies...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. US-Israeli Relations in a New Era

   Issues and Challenges after 9/11

   Edited by Eytan Gilboa, Efraim Inbar

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   This book examines in depth the fundamental problems, factors and issues in current US-Israeli relations, which will have implications both for the Middle East and for world peace and prosperity. The US and Israel have established an exceptional relationship, which has significant effects on...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
4. The New Citizen Armies

   Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Stuart A. Cohen

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society. Focusing primarily on deviations from the...

   Published January 12th 2010 by Routledge
5. Radical Islam and International Security

   Challenges and Responses

   Edited by Efraim Inbar, Hillel Frisch

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   Radical Islam poses a political challenge in the modern world which is like that of no other radical religious movement. Ideologically, it is perceived by Western policy makers as threatening the liberal-democratic ideology by which most states in the West abide and which most other states...

   Published March 1st 2009 by Routledge
6. Religion in World Conflict

   Edited by Jonathan Fox, Shmeul Sandler

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   This new book tackles two crucial questions: First, how does religion in its various forms and manifestations influence world politics? Second, how will adding religion to the discourse on international relations modify our theoretical understanding? Each of these leading authors addresses...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
7. Democracies and Small Wars

   Edited by Efraim Inbar

   Series: BESA Studies in International Security

   By their nature, democracies clearly have greater constraints than autocratic regimes on their freedom of action as they have to meet constitutional, legal and moral criteria in their use of force. This collection analyses a number of case studies showing how democracies have won small wars....

   Published August 29th 2003 by Routledge