Global Politics Essays in Honour of David Vital

Part 1 Modern diplomacy and international relations: the traditional and the transitional in statecraft, David Kimche; diplomacy in the age of global communication, Eytan Gilboa; studying international norms, Arie M. Kacowicz; imperialism - predatory or preemptive?, Efraim Karsh; new patterns of military intervention, Gil Merom; proximate policy-makers, Aharon Klieman. Part 2 Israeli foreign relations: the Palestinian issue - changing Israeli perspectives, Itamar Rabinovich; Israeli intervention in intra-Arab affairs, Zeev Maoz; Oom-shmoom revisited - Israeli attitudes towards the UN and the great powers, 1948-1960, Neil Caplan; paving the road to war - Israeli dilpomacy and the 1967 crisis, David Tal; dynamics of the US-Israel special relationship, Abraham Ben-Zvi; contending narratives - the Israeli peace movement's role in the Oslo process, Tamar Hermann. Part 3 Zionism and modern Jewish history: Ahad Ha'am and the Jewish Volkgeist, Eyal Chowers; first encounters - East European Jewry discovers pre-Balfour England, Yaacov Shavit; Jewish political culture and Zionist foreign policy, Alan Dowty; whose Israel? Jewish-Americans and the transnational battle for Jewish identity, Yossi Shain; weaving the future of Israel.

Biography

Abraham Ben-Zvi, Aharon Klieman

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