Routledge Israel, the Middle East and the Great Powers

Product Description Israel, The Middle East and the Great Powers presents the Israel-Arab conflict to the general public in a uniquely comprehensive and interdisciplinary format. Its form and content reflect the most serious efforts of Israel's intellectual community to analyze the conflict situation in which they live, objectively and honestly. The book argues that recent events have reduced the U.S. role, and changed the policy parameters in the region.A broad cross-section of Israel's foremost orientalists, historians, juridicists and political scientists have contributed a selection of articles and lexicons which embody the essential aspects of the conflict in its broadest sense. Each key element is analyzed within a number of categories: the ideological-theological plane (Judaism, Zionism, the Holocaust, Jerusalem and the three monotheistic religions); the Palestinian sphere (PLO ideology, Jordon and the Judea & Samaria Region, the PLO and the war in lebanon); the superpowers and the wider region (Iran-Iraq, the Islamic resurgence, oil, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, the United States and Israel), etc. Detailed lexicons offer concise factual breakdowns of both the Middle East (inter-Arab aspects, key Arab countries, conventional and nuclear Arab armaments) and the Arab-Israel context (chronology of the conflict, key events and personalities in Zionism, UN involvement, international legal aspects). Review -... a thoughtful contribution to wider understanding of Israel's position in the Middle East and to the dynamics of conflict in the region.- --Robert J. Lieber, department of government, Georgetown University. -. . .an important collection of essays presenting the best Israeli thinking about the political issues of the Middle East. .. argues important propositions in a reasonable and powerful way. Essential for anyone interested in the prospects of peace in the Middle East.- --Jacob Neusner, Ungerleider distinguished scholar in Judaic Studies, Brown University. ..". a thoughtful contribution to wider understanding of Israel's position in the Middle East and to the dynamics of conflict in the region." --Robert J. Lieber, department of government, Georgetown University. ." . .an important collection of essays presenting the best Israeli thinking about the political issues of the Middle East. .. argues important propositions in a reasonable and powerful way. Essential for anyone interested in the prospects of peace in the Middle East." --Jacob Neusner, Ungerleider distinguished scholar in Judaic Studies, Brown University. ..". a thoughtful contribution to wider understanding of Israel's position in the Middle East and to the dynamics of conflict in the region." --Robert J. Lieber, department of government, Georgetown University. ." . .an important collection of essays presenting the best Israeli thinking about the political issues of the Middle East. .. argues important propositions in a reasonable and powerful way. Essential for anyone interested in the prospects of peace in the Middle East." --Jacob Neusner, Ungerleider distinguished scholar in Judaic Studies, Brown University. .".. a thoughtful contribution to wider understanding of Israel's position in the Middle East and to the dynamics of conflict in the region." --Robert J. Lieber, department of government, Georgetown University. ." . .an important collection of essays presenting the best Israeli thinking about the political issues of the Middle East. .. argues important propositions in a reasonable and powerful way. Essential for anyone interested in the prospects of peace in the Middle East." --Jacob Neusner, Ungerleider distinguished scholar in Judaic Studies, Brown University.