Book Series

Israeli History, Politics and Society

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Navigating Perilous Waters

An Israeli Strategy for Peace and Security

By Ephraim Sneh

Israel is a Jewish state in a Muslim Middle East. How can it survive in that region? This book answers this question by analyzing the…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8518-2 (Routledge)

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Israel's Quest for Recognition and Acceptance in Asia

Garrison State Diplomacy

By Jacob Abadi

This title represents a comprehensive study of Israel's attempts to build diplomatic relations with countries on the Asian continent. The author argues that, despite the…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8564-9 (Routledge)

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H V Evatt and the Establishment of Israel

The Undercover Zionist

By Daniel Mandel

The Minister for External Affairs, and the dominant force in the formation of Australian foreign policy for a crucial decade in the battle over Palestine…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8461-1 (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…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5275-7 (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…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5629-8 (Routledge)

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Israel: The First Hundred Years

Volume IV: Israel in the International Arena

Edited by Efraim Karsh

Born amidst the ruin of the Second World War and into the Cold War environment of machtpolitik, Israel has since its earliest existence commanded a…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8021-7 (Routledge)

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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel

In the Shadow of the Hawk

By Abraham Ben-Zvi

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8463-5 (Routledge)

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The Israeli Palestinians

An Arab Minority in the Jewish State

Edited by Alexander Bligh

One of the most crucial issues to affect national policy in the state of Israel is that of relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens.…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8345-4 (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…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5451-5 (Routledge)

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The Conscience of Lebanon

A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (Abu-Arz)

By Mordechai Nisan

This work is a combination of an account of a most captivating Lebanese personality with a penetrating analysis of the historical and religious contours of…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8378-2 (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:

Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics: Traditionists and Modernity
By Yaacov Yadgar
To be published July 1st 2010

Politics of Memory: Israeli Underground's Confrontations Over Boundaries of State Pantheon
By Udi Lebel
To be published October 1st 2010