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The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace

By: Yael S. Aronoff

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The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace

By: Yael S. Aronoff

This book examines leaders of the seemingly intractable conflict between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors. It takes as an intellectual target of opportunity six Israeli prime ministers, asking why some of them have persisted in some hard-line positions but others have opted to become peacemakers. This book argues that some leaders do change, and above all it explains why and how such changes come about. This book goes beyond arguing simply that 'leaders matter' by analyzing how their particular belief systems and personalities can ultimately make a difference to their country's foreign policy, especially toward a long-standing enemy. Although no hard-liner can stand completely still in the face of important changes, only those with ideologies that have specific components that act as obstacles to change and who have an orientation toward the past may need to be replaced for dramatic policy changes to take place.

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Cambridge University Press

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113995251X

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The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace

By: Yael S. Aronoff

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When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace

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Recovered Roots

Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition

By: Yael Zerubavel

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Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition

By: Yael Zerubavel

In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into a national myth.

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388

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University of Chicago Press

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0226981576

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9780226981574

Faces of the State

Secularism and Public Life in Turkey

By: Yael Navaro-Yashin

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Faces of the State

Secularism and Public Life in Turkey

By: Yael Navaro-Yashin

Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. Delving deeper than studies of nationalist discourse that would focus on consciously articulated narratives of political identity, the author explores sites of "fantasy" in the public-political domain of Istanbul. The book focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities. In contrast with studies that would problematize and objectify religious movements, the author examines the agency of secularists under a state widely known for its "secularist" policies. The complexity and dynamism of the context studied moves well beyond scholarly distinctions between "secularity" and "religion," as well as "state" and "society." Here, secularism and Islamism emerge as different guises for a culture of statism where people from "society" compete to claim "Turkish culture" for themselves and their life practices. With this work that stretches the boundaries of regionalism, the author situates her anthropological study of Turkey not only in scholarship on the Middle East, but also in the broader problem of thinking "Europe" anew.

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262

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Princeton University Press

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069121428X

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9780691214283

Land of Paradoxes

Interest Politics in Israel

By: Yael Yishai

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Land of Paradoxes

Interest Politics in Israel

By: Yael Yishai

This book examines the structure of Israeli interest groups, their strategies, their effectiveness, and their relations with state organizations and political parties. It addresses such important questions as the following. What are the links between political parties and interest groups? What are the attitudes of senior state officials toward interest groups? Why do interest groups influence public policy and to what extent? Are some groups more influential than others? Is Israel moving toward a post-materialist era? Land of Paradoxes reflects the realities of contemporary Israeli politics. Using a framework of universal interest-group configurations, the book shows how Israel deviates from these patterns and places it in a historical and comparative perspective.

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434

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State University of New York Press

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1438424647

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9781438424644

Desert in the Promised Land

By: Yael Zerubavel

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Desert in the Promised Land

By: Yael Zerubavel

“A complex and fascinating portrait of Israel . . . .an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history.” —Anita Shapira, author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews’ biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society’s semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the “besieged island” trope in Israeli culture and politics.

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423

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Stanford University Press

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1503607607

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9781503607606

Book's by Yael Aronoff

The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers

Recovered Roots

Recovered Roots

Faces of the State

Faces of the State

Land of Paradoxes

Land of Paradoxes

Desert in the Promised Land

Desert in the Promised Land

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