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Defending the Holy Land

A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy

By: Zeev Maoz

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Defending the Holy Land

A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy

By: Zeev Maoz

A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Book jacket.

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Domestic Sources of Global Change

By: Zeev Maoz

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Domestic Sources of Global Change

By: Zeev Maoz

Examines the relationship between domestic politics and international politics.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472106295

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National Choices and International Processes

By: Zeev Maoz

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National Choices and International Processes

By: Zeev Maoz

National Choices and International Processes will be of interest to students and specialists in foreign policy and international relations theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521365953

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Paradoxes of War

On the Art of National Self-Entrapment

By: Zeev Maoz

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Paradoxes of War

On the Art of National Self-Entrapment

By: Zeev Maoz

Why do reasonable people lead their nations into the tremendously destructive traps of international conflict? Why do nations then deepen their involvement and make it harder to escape from these traps? In Paradoxes of War, originally published in 1990, Zeev Maoz addresses these and other paradoxical questions about the war process. Using a unique approach to the study of war, he demonstrates that wars may often break out because states wish to prevent them, and continue despite the desperate efforts of the combatants to end them. Paradoxes of War is organized around the various stages of war. The first part discusses the causes of war, the second the management of war, and the third the short- and long-term implications of war. In each chapter Maoz explores a different paradox as a contradiction between reasonable expectations and the outcomes of motivated behaviour based on those expectations. He documents these paradoxes in twentieth century wars, including the Korean War, the Six Day War, and the Vietnam War. Maoz then invokes cognitive and rational choice theories to explain why these paradoxes arise. Paradoxes of War is essential reading for students and scholars of international politics, war and peace studies, international relations theory, and political science in general.

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Routledge

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1000259331

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9781000259339

Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics

Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era

By: Zeev Maoz,Errol A Henderson

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Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics

Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era

By: Zeev Maoz,Errol A Henderson

The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused primarily on the effects of religion on domestic and international conflict. Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics offers a comprehensive evaluation of the role of religion in international relations, broadening the scope of investigation to such topics as the relationship between religion and cooperation, religion and conflict, and the relationship between religion and the quality of life. Religion is often manipulated by political elites to advance their principal goal of political survival. Zeev Maoz and Errol A. Henderson find that no specific religion is either consistently more bellicose or consistently more cooperative than other religions. However, religious similarity between states tends to reduce the propensity of conflict and increase the opportunity for security cooperation. The authors find a significant relationship between secularism and human security.

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0472126431

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Defending the Holy Land

A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy

By: Zeev Maoz

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Defending the Holy Land

A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy

By: Zeev Maoz

Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Author Zeev Maoz's unique double perspective, as both an expert on the Israeli security establishment and esteemed scholar of Mideast politics, enables him to describe in harrowing detail the tragic recklessness and self-made traps that pervade the history of Israeli security operations and foreign policy. Most of the wars in which Israel was involved, Maoz shows, were entirely avoidable, the result of deliberate Israeli aggression, flawed decision-making, and misguided conflict management strategies. None, with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence, were what Israelis call "wars of necessity." They were all wars of choice-or, worse, folly. Demonstrating that Israel's national security policy rested on the shaky pairing of a trigger-happy approach to the use of force with a hesitant and reactive peace diplomacy, Defending the Holy Land recounts in minute-by-minute detail how the ascendancy of Israel's security establishment over its foreign policy apparatus led to unnecessary wars and missed opportunites for peace. A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land calls for sweeping reform of Israel's foreign policy and national security establishments. This book will fundamentally transform the way readers think about Israel's troubled history. Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College. Cover photograph: Israel, Jerusalem, Western Wall and The Dome of The Rock. Courtesy of Corbis.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472021737

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Bound by Struggle

The Strategic Evolution of Enduring International Rivalries

By: Zeev Maoz,Ben D. Mor

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Bound by Struggle

The Strategic Evolution of Enduring International Rivalries

By: Zeev Maoz,Ben D. Mor

Explains the origins and dynamics of enduring rivalries between countries

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0472112740

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Rethinking Contemporary Warfare

A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada

By: Eyal Ben-Ari,Zeev Lerer,Uzi Ben-Shalom

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Rethinking Contemporary Warfare

A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada

By: Eyal Ben-Ari,Zeev Lerer,Uzi Ben-Shalom

Examines the combat experience of Israel’s ground forces in the Al-Aqsa Intifada in order to offer a set of innovative concepts for understanding irregular warfare.

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State University of New York Press

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1438431864

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October Earthquake

Yom Kippur 1973

By: Zeev Schiff

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October Earthquake

Yom Kippur 1973

By: Zeev Schiff

Originally published in 1974 by University Publishing Projects, Ltd.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412849845

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Networks of Nations

The Evolution, Structure, and Impact of International Networks, 1816–2001

By: Zeev Maoz

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Networks of Nations

The Evolution, Structure, and Impact of International Networks, 1816–2001

By: Zeev Maoz

Maoz views the evolution of international relations over the last two centuries as a set of interacting, cooperative and conflicting networks of states. The networks that emerged are the result of national choice processes about forming or breaking ties with other states. States are constantly concerned with their security and survival in an anarchic world. Their security concerns stem from their external environment and their past conflicts. Because many of them cannot ensure their security by their own power, they need allies to balance against a hostile international environment. The alliance choices made by states define the structure of security cooperation networks and spill over into other cooperative networks, including trade and institutions. Maoz tests his theory by applying social networks analysis (SNA) methods to international relations. He offers a novel perspective as a system of interrelated networks that co-evolve and interact with one another.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139492497

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9781139492492

The Israeli Central Bank

Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors

By: Daniel Maman,Zeev Rosenhek

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The Israeli Central Bank

Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors

By: Daniel Maman,Zeev Rosenhek

This book examines the local and global political and institutional processes that have led to the strengthening of the Israeli central bank within the context of the now predominant neoliberal regime. Using Israel as a case study to identify broader patterns around the world, the authors examine the strengthening of central banks as a key dimension of the institutionalisation of the global regime. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of the political economy of the Israeli central bank since the mid-1980s, the authors show how the Bank of Israel mobilized global logics in order to strengthen its position vis-à-vis competing actors, especially the Ministry of Finance, and to promote the institutionalisation of the neoliberal regime. Employing a conflict-centered theoretical perspective, the authors elucidate the character of this institutional transformation and the mechanisms that were involved. Chapters examine the different phases of the process of central bank strengthening, focusing on the actors involved, the interactions between them, and the political strategies they employed, and analyse the consequences of the process for the shift in macro-economic management and in the mode of state involvement in the economy. Addressing the political and institutional processes that have led to the fundamental transformation of Israeli political economy, this book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on the Israeli banking system, political economy and globalisation.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136822372

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The Missing Century

Palestine in the Fifth Century : Growth and Decline

By: Zeev Safrai

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The Missing Century

Palestine in the Fifth Century : Growth and Decline

By: Zeev Safrai

The Byzantine period is one of the less known periods in the history of Palestine. On the one hand, there is a wealth of archaeological evidence, albeit not in a final form; while, on the other hand, there are few historical sources. There is evidence of prosperity, but also testimonies of economic and demographic deterioration. The book offers a comprehensive historical framework describing the period, based on all the available material. In the absence of historical sources, full use must be made of the archaeological data; until the present, however, chronological definitions have not been determined for "Byzantine" pottery vessels. The book makes use of a new methodological tool: quantitative numismatic data.

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