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Global Liberalism, Local Populism

Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland

By: Guy Ben-Porat

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Global Liberalism, Local Populism

Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland

By: Guy Ben-Porat

In recent years the conflicts in Israel/ Palestine and Northern Ireland continue to oscillate between momentum for peaceful resolution and regression into new cycles of violence or political deadlock. To understand these shifts Guy Ben-Porat provides an in-depth analysis of the global environment and the profound effect it has on local conflicts. Because globalization affects localized social structures, institutions, and political divisions as well as international relationships between states and societies, it offers a unique perspective from which to examine the commonalities and differences between two regions laden with conflict. Ben-Porat reveals how the complex and often contradictory characteristics of globalization both constrain and promote the peace processes in Israel/ Palestine and Northern Ireland. Drawing on scholarship in the field of globalization and on archival research, including interviews with leading businessmen involved in the peace process, Ben-Porat believes that a critical interrogation of the interface between economic interests and policy makers is central to an understanding of the complex relationship between globalization and peace. In clear and convincing arguments, this book presents an important and innovative approach to two of the world’s most intractable conflicts.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815630697

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Policing Citizens

Minority Policy in Israel

By: Guy Ben-Porat,Fany Yuval

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Policing Citizens

Minority Policy in Israel

By: Guy Ben-Porat,Fany Yuval

What does police violence against minorities, or violent clashes between minorities and the police tell us about citizenship and its internal hierarchies? Indicative of deep-seated tensions and negative perceptions; incidents such as these suggest how minorities are vulnerable, suffer from or are subject to police abuse and neglect in Israel. Marked by skin colour, negatively stigmatized or rendered security threats, their encounters with police provide a daily reminder of their defunct citizenship. Taking as case studies the experiences and perceptions of four minority groups within Israel including Palestinian/Arab citizens, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, Ben-Porat and Yuval are able to explore different paths of citizenship and the stratification of the citizenship regime through relations with and perceptions of the police in Israel. Touching on issues such as racial profiling, police brutality and neighbourhood neglect, their study questions the notions of citizenship and belonging, shedding light on minority relationships with the state and its institutions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108266363

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The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa

By: Guy Ben-Porat

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The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa

By: Guy Ben-Porat

This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace. It offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processes - in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine - and provides historical and comparative perspectives on the failure of the Middle East peace process.

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Springer

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023058263X

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9780230582637

Between State and Synagogue

The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

By: Guy Ben-Porat

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Between State and Synagogue

The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

By: Guy Ben-Porat

A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy, largely with limited success. However, Guy Ben-Porat suggests, in recent years, in part because of demographic changes and in part because of the influence of an increasingly consumer-oriented society, dramatic changes have occurred in secularization of significant parts of public and private lives. Even though these fissures often have more to do with lifestyle choices and economics than with political or religious ideology, the demands and choices of a secular public and a burgeoning religious presence in the government are becoming ever more difficult to reconcile. The evidence, which the author has accrued from numerous interviews and a detailed survey, is nowhere more telling than in areas that demand religious sanction such as marriage, burial, the sale of pork, and the operation of businesses on the Sabbath.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139619292

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Why Hawks Become Doves

Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel

By: Guy Ziv

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Why Hawks Become Doves

Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel

By: Guy Ziv

Investigates how leaders personalities shape important foreign policy shifts. Why do hawkish leaders change course to pursue dovish policies? In Why Hawks Become Doves, Guy Ziv argues that conventional international relations theory is inadequate for explaining these momentous foreign policy shifts, because it underestimates the importance of leaders and their personalities. Applying insights from cognitive psychology, Ziv argues that decision-makers cognitive structurespecifically, their levels of cognitive openness and complexityis a critical causal variable in determining their propensity to revise their beliefs and pursue new policies. To illustrate his point, he examines Israeli statesman Shimon Peres. Beginning his political career as a tough-minded security hawk, Peres emerged as one of the Middle Easts foremost champions of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including interviews with Peres and dozens of other political elites, archival research, biographies, and memoirs, Ziv finds that Peress highly open and complex cognitive structure facilitated a quicker and more profound dovish shift on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than his less cognitively open and complex rivals. Guy Ziv has written a masterful and intriguing study that breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of the individual leader in framing foreign policy. The comparisons of Peres, Rabin, Begin, and Shamir are extraordinary, and effectively demonstrate the advantages of a leader who has a talent for adapting to altered conditions and listening to differing perspectives. Its both an absorbing page-turner and a stimulating eye-opener. Steven L. Spiegel, coauthor of The Peace Puzzle: Americas Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 19892011 Ziv has written a fascinating account of how some leaders (Peres, Rabin, Sharon) are able to shift their goals and strategies to a less conflictual mode, and how others (Shamir, Begin, Netanyahu) are simply incapable of doing so. Ziv makes a strong case for the proposition that the cognitive structure of leaders matters. A turn towards peace requires national leaders who are personally capable of making that turn. Zivs tome is a substantial contribution to the literatures of foreign policy analysis and political psychology, and is an important read for all who seek a more peaceful world. Valerie M. Hudson, author of Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory

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SUNY Press

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1438453957

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Between State and Synagogue

The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

By: Guy Ben-Porat

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The Secularization of Contemporary Israel

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Guy Ben-Porat explores the evolving tensions between the liberal component in Israeli society and the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy.

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110700344X

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Policing Citizens

Minority Policy in Israel

By: Guy Ben-Porat,Fany Yuval

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Minority Policy in Israel

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Israel since 1980

By: Guy Ben-Porat,Yagil Levy,Shlomo Mizrahi,Arye Naor,Erez Tzfadia

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Israel since 1980

By: Guy Ben-Porat,Yagil Levy,Shlomo Mizrahi,Arye Naor,Erez Tzfadia

Over the last quarter century, a radical demographic, economic and political transformation has been taking place from within Israel. Israelis are beginning to ask some fundamental questions about the country they live in and what it means to be an Israeli. This book, written by five Israeli academics, probes the changing nature of Israeli society over the last twenty-five years. It considers the deep rifts in that society caused by ethnic, cultural, class and religious divide. It looks at political and economic changes and how privatization has undermined the welfare state. It questions the role of the military in the light of the wider social and economic changes. Finally, and crucially, it asks whether new political initiatives can offer a realistic alternative to the inadequacies of recent governments. This is an informative account of Israel's recent past and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century.

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0521855926

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Global Liberalism, Local Populism

Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland

By: Guy Ben-Porat

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Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland

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The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa

By: Guy Ben-Porat

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A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Global Liberalism, Local Populism

Global Liberalism, Local Populism

Policing Citizens

Policing Citizens

The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

Between State and Synagogue

Between State and Synagogue

Why Hawks Become Doves

Why Hawks Become Doves

Between State and Synagogue

Between State and Synagogue

Policing Citizens

Policing Citizens

Israel since 1980

Israel since 1980

Global Liberalism, Local Populism

Global Liberalism, Local Populism

The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

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