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Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks

By: Moshe Maoz,Avner Yaniv

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Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks

By: Moshe Maoz,Avner Yaniv

One of the most striking recent developments in the modern Middle East has been the transformation of Syria under Hafez al-Assad from a weak, vulnerable and internally divided state to a leading regional power. While this is increasingly acknowledged by observers of the Middle Eastern scene , the scholarly discussion of the origins, the scope, the durability and the implications of this change is only beginning to take place. Syria Under Assad addresses itself to this discussion. Based on a carefully selected collection of original articles, this volume focuses on the elements of Syria’s power, on Syria’s relations with each of its neighbours as well as on Syria’s relations with the superpowers. In the final analysis, conclude the editors, Syrian policies appear paradoxical. Its conduct ever since the advent of Hafez al-Assad exhibits subtle and hard-nosed pragmatism. Yet, in order to consolidate the domestic legitimacy of the Alawi Ba’athist regime, Syria has been impelled to articulate its foreign policy goals in the far-flung rhetoric of the Ba’athist ideology. As a result Syria is widely perceived of as a menace and, treated as such, it often responds in kind.

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Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks

By: Moshe Maoz,Avner Yaniv

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Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks

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The Middle East In Global Strategy

By: Aurel Braun,Edwin H Fedder,Avner Yaniv,Gerald Steinberg

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The Middle East In Global Strategy

By: Aurel Braun,Edwin H Fedder,Avner Yaniv,Gerald Steinberg

This book emphasizes the vital links between international politics and strategy and provides a comprehensive analysis of strategic interests of the major international actors in the Middle East. It contends that the policies of the superpowers toward the Middle East are fragmented and unproductive.

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1000303373

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Israel and the Bomb

By: Avner Cohen

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Israel and the Bomb

By: Avner Cohen

In the first detailed account of Israel's nuclear record, Cohen forges an interpretive political history, drawing on thousands of American and Israeli once-classified documents.

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Columbia University Press

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0231104839

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9780231104838

Systems Science for Engineers and Scholars

By: Avner Engel

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Systems Science for Engineers and Scholars

By: Avner Engel

Brings a powerful toolkit to bear on engineering and scientific endeavors. This book describes the fundamental principles of systems science so engineers and other scholars can put them into practical use at work and in their personal lives. Systems science aims to determine systemic similarities among different disciplines and to develop applicable solutions in many fields of inquiry. Systems Science for Engineers and Scholars readers will discover: Ten systems science principles that open engineers’ and scholars’ horizons to practical insights related to their areas of interest A methodology for designing holistic systems that exhibit resilient behavior to overcome systems’ context uncertainties The most critical current dilemma of humankind—the global environment and energy crises, as well as a systemic, no-nonsense action plan to deal with these issues Independent articles describing how engineers and scholars can utilize systems science creatively in (1) engineering and systemic psychology; (2) delivering value and resolving conflicts; (3) multi-objective, multi-agent decision-making; (4) systems engineering using category theory; (5) holistic risk management using systems of systems failures methodology; and (6) systemic accident and mishap analysis Systems Science for Engineers and Scholars contains a broad spectrum of insights as well as an extensive set of examples and graphics that make it ideal for professionals and students interested in a holistic, systems-oriented approach.

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550

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394211643

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9781394211647

The Spirit of Cities

Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

By: Daniel A. Bell,Avner de-Shalit

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The Spirit of Cities

Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

By: Daniel A. Bell,Avner de-Shalit

A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thought Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, Athens was synonymous with democracy and Sparta represented military discipline. In this original and engaging book, Daniel Bell and Avner de-Shalit explore how this classical idea can be applied to today's cities, and they explain why philosophy and the social sciences need to rediscover the spirit of cities. Bell and de-Shalit look at nine modern cities and the prevailing ethos that distinguishes each one. The cities are Jerusalem (religion), Montreal (language), Singapore (nation building), Hong Kong (materialism), Beijing (political power), Oxford (learning), Berlin (tolerance and intolerance), Paris (romance), and New York (ambition). Bell and de-Shalit draw upon the richly varied histories of each city, as well as novels, poems, biographies, tourist guides, architectural landmarks, and the authors' own personal reflections and insights. They show how the ethos of each city is expressed in political, cultural, and economic life, and also how pride in a city's ethos can oppose the homogenizing tendencies of globalization and curb the excesses of nationalism. The Spirit of Cities is unreservedly impressionistic. Combining strolling and storytelling with cutting-edge theory, the book encourages debate and opens up new avenues of inquiry in philosophy and the social sciences. It is a must-read for lovers of cities everywhere. In a new preface, Bell and de-Shalit further develop their idea of "civicism," the pride city dwellers feel for their city and its ethos over that of others.

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Princeton University Press

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1400848261

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9781400848263

The Worst-Kept Secret

Israel's Bargain with the Bomb

By: Avner Cohen

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The Worst-Kept Secret

Israel's Bargain with the Bomb

By: Avner Cohen

Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age& mdash;it has created (with the tacit support of the United States) a special "bargain" with its bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that keeps its bomb invisible, unacknowledged, opaque. It will only say that it will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East. The bomb is Israel's collective ineffable& mdash;the nation's last taboo. This bargain has a name: in Hebrew, it is called amimut, or opacity. By adhering to the bargain, which was born in a secret deal between Richard Nixon and Golda Meir, Israel creates a code of nuclear conduct that encompasses both governmental policy and societal behavior. The bargain lowers the salience of Israel's nuclear weapons, yet it also remains incompatible with the norms and values of liberal democracy. It relies on secrecy and opacity. It infringes on the public right to know and negates the notion of public accountability and oversight, among other offenses. Author of the critically acclaimed Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen offers a bold and original study of this politically explosive subject. Along with a fair appraisal of the bargain's strategic merits, Cohen provides a critique of its antidemocratic faults. Arguing that the bargain has become increasingly anachronistic, he calls for a reform in line with domestic democratic values as well as current international nuclear norms. Most important, he believes the old methods will prove inadequate in dealing with a nuclear Iran. Cohen concludes with fresh perspectives on Iran, Israel, and the effort toward global disarmament.

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Columbia University Press

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0231136986

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9780231136983

Agnon’s Story

A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

By: Avner Falk

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Agnon’s Story

A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

By: Avner Falk

Agnon’s Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional “objects” of his life, in particular his “father-teacher,” his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after her and his adopted “home-land” of Israel. Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to “sublimate” his emotional pain into works of art. This biography seeks to investigate the emotional character of his literary canon, his ambivalence to his family and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous “modesty.”

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BRILL

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9004367780

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9789004367784

The Middle East In Global Strategy

By: Aurel Braun,Edwin H Fedder,Avner Yaniv,Gerald Steinberg

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The Middle East In Global Strategy

By: Aurel Braun,Edwin H Fedder,Avner Yaniv,Gerald Steinberg

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Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks

By: Moshe Maoz,Avner Yaniv

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Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks

By: Moshe Maoz,Avner Yaniv

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Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

The Middle East In Global Strategy

The Middle East In Global Strategy

Israel and the Bomb

Israel and the Bomb

Systems Science for Engineers and Scholars

Systems Science for Engineers and Scholars

The Spirit of Cities

The Spirit of Cities

The Worst-Kept Secret

The Worst-Kept Secret

Agnon’s Story

Agnon’s Story

The Middle East In Global Strategy

The Middle East In Global Strategy

Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

Syria Under Assad (RLE Syria)

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