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Israel in a Turbulent Region: Security and Foreign Policy book cover

1st Edition

Israel in a Turbulent Region Security and Foreign Policy

Edited By Tore Petersen Copyright 2019
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge
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This anthology examines and deconstructs what Israeli security looks like and how its various security identities have evolved both before the establishment of the state and in the years and decades since 1948. It casts light on how aspects of Israel’s foreign relations have been shaped as much by internal politics as by external challenge. Further, not only does it answer the questions... Read more
 Introduction Tore T. Petersen



1. A Divisive Promise: The legacy of the Balfour Declaration Carly Beckerman



2. Constructing "the Seventh Million"? Holocaust and National Identity in Contemporary Israel Anette Storeide





3. "I don’t know who we are". Testimonies from Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank about Jewish settlers Hanne Eggen Røislien





4. Israel’s Legal Insecurity: The Domestic and International Consequences of Israel’s Increasingly Transparent Support for the Settlement Outposts Alan Craig





5. Israel and the Gulf States: Regimes, Rivalry and Regional Security Clive Jones





6. Veiled Diplomacy. Israel, Saudi Arabia and Yemen: Decades of Clandestine Relations Asher Orkaby





7. Israel and the Palestinians in 2017: The Slippery Slope Yossi Alpher





8. Far away. The Relation between Denmark and Israel Thomas Wegener Friis, Nir Levitan





9. "With Friendly Concern": The Turbulent Relations between Israel and Sweden Jacob Eriksson





10. Europe and the Rule of (International) Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Space Raffaella Del Sarto



11. In the Shadow of the Balfour Declaration: British Policy towards Israel and the Occupied Territories during the Coalition and Conservative Governments, 2010-2016 Simon Smith



12. The Special Relationship between the United States and Israel Jonathan Rynhold





13. Breakthrough: Israel’s Great Leap Forward into Asia Yitzhak Shichor





14. The Renaissance of Israel’s Periphery Doctrine: A Comparative Analysis Jean-Loup Samaan

Biography



Tore T. Petersen is Professor of Diplomatic History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. He has thought at the University of Minnesota; Southwest University in Marshall, Minnesota as well as several colleges in the Trondheim region before joining the NTNU. He has published extensively on Anglo-American relations in the Middle East. His last book was, The Military Conquest of the Prairie: Native American Resistance, Evasion and Survival, 1865–1890 (2016). He is currently working on a study of American Grand Strategy from Nixon to Trump.



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