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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.

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Author:   Gershon Kieval ,  Bernard Reich
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.473kg
ISBN:  

9780313273490

ISBN 10:   0313273499
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   30 November 1991
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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BERNARD REICH is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He has written extensively on Israel and the Middle East. Recent works include the highly acclaimed Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1990), Israeli National Security Policy (Greenwood, 1988) and Quest for Peace: U.S.-Israeli Relations and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1977). He has also served as a consultant to the government and to business and has advised on political risk and other matters. GERSHON R. KIEVAL is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. He has lived and done research at length in the Middle East. Kieval is the author of Party Politics in Israel and the Occupied Territories (Greenwood, 1983) and author and co-editor of Israeli National Security Policy (Greenwood, 1988) and Israel Faces the Future (Praeger, 1986).

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