Israeli politics in the 1990s : key domestic and foreign policy factors
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Israeli politics in the 1990s : key domestic and foreign policy factors
(Contributions in political science, no. 285)
Greenwood Press, 1991
- : alk. paper
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliography (p. [181]-186) and index
ISSN:0147-1066
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What are the key factors that have transformed the Israeli political center and how will they shape Israel's role in the Middle East in the 1990s? Well-known experts join the editors, Reich and Kieval, in giving a unique picture of current and future trends in Israeli politics, focusing on the movement of the Israeli body politic to the right-of-center and the growing hold of Likud. They define future prospects, taking into account foreign policy, economic, and demographic issues. Academics, policymakers, and journalists will find this volume indispensable to understanding the critical role that Israel will play in the Middle East in the next decade and how domestic politics in Israel will define that role.
This survey of political developments by eleven authorities is based on a study of the latest events, on long reflection, and on two conferences that brought together sixty of the most knowledgeable experts on the Middle East today, drawn from the academic world and from various U.S. government departments and agencies. This analysis of political trends assesses Likud's centrality in the governmental system, the role of religious and settler movements, the linkage of domestic politics to the question of Arab-Israeli peace and the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and demographic, attitudinal, and other factors that affect political leadership and decisionmaking. The influx of Jewish immigration to Israel from the Soviet Union is viewed in terms of future implications as well. A detailed bibliography is provided.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction The Changing Center in Israeli Politics by Gershon R. Kieval and Bernard Reich The Balance of Political Power and Israel's Political Future by Daniel J. Elazar Toward the 1990s in Israeli Politics by Asher Arian Extremism, Intensity, and Apocalyptic Warnings: Prophetic Policy Advocacy in Modern Israel by Ira Sharkanksy The Religious Parties as a Support System for the Settler Movement by Stewart Reiser The Israeli-Jewish Presence in the Territories: Historical and Cultural Roots by Chaim I. Waxman The Embeddedness of the Arab-Jewish Conflict in the State of Israel: Demographic and Sociological Perspectives by Calvin Goldscheider Demographic and Economic Forces Underlining Likud's Perspective of the West Bank by Fred Gottheil Achieving Peace Through Economic Development: The Case of the West Bank and Gaza by Marver H. Bernstein Appendixes Selected Bibliography by Noah Dropkin Index
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