Middle Eastern Studies

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Zionism & Palestine before the First World War -- Labor Zionism & the Arab Working Class, 1920-1929 -- Railway Workers of Palestine (I): The Struggle for Arab-Jewish Unity, 1919-1925 -- Railway Workers of Palestine (II): Cooperation & Conflict, 1925-1939 -- Arab Workers & the Histadrut, 1929-1936 -- Arab Revolt & Labor Zionism, 1936-1939 -- Workers, Labor Movements, & the Left During the Second World War -- Labor Activism & Politics, 1945-1948

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Part I: The Shape of the Palestine Problem in 1936 -- Part II: Developments during the Period of Axis Ascendancy, 1936-1942 -- Part III: Results of the Sharpening East-West Rivalry after 1942

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The Ottoman Background of Palestinian Politics -- Arabism and Ottomanism: The Young Turk Period before the War, 1908-1914 -- Arab Reactions to Zionism, 1882-1914 -- Older Ottomanists and Younger Reformers in World War I -- Faysal's Arab Government: The Making and Unmaking of a King, 1918-1920 -- The Eclipse of the Pan-Syrian Dream, 1918-1920 -- The Beginnings of Political Organization in Palestine -- The Crisis in Political Identity -- The Ascendance of Palestinian Nationalism

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Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian Identity -- Cultural Life & Identity in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Place of Jerusalem -- Competing & Overlapping Loyalties in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Elements of Identity I: Peasant Resistance to Zionist Settlement -- Elements of Identity II: The Debate on Zionism in the Arabic Press -- Formation of Palestinian Identity: The Critical Years, 1917-1923 -- "Disappearance" & Reemergence of Palestinian Identity

pt. 1. From revolt to revolt : the encounter with the European world and Zionism -- 1. The revolt of 1834 and the making of modern Palestine -- 2. The city : between Nablus and Jaffa -- 3. Jerusalem : notables and nationalism -- 4. The Arab revolt, 1936-1939 -- pt. 2. Dispersal -- 5. The meaning of disaster -- pt. 3. Reconstituting the Palestinian nation -- 6. Odd man out : Arabs in Israel -- 7. Dispersal, 1948-1967 -- 8. The feday : rebirth and resistance -- 9. Steering a path under occupation -- pt. 4. Abortive reconciliation -- 10. The Oslo process : what went right? -- 11. The Oslo process : what went wrong?

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The politics of uniqueness : the status of the Israeli case / Michael N. Barnett -- Israeli foreign policy : a realist ideal-type or a breed of its own? / Shibley Telhami -- Israel Diaspora relations in comparative perspective / Gabriel Sheffer -- Gender and international relations : a comparison of citizen attitudes in Israel and Egypt / Mark Tessler and Ina Warriner -- Israel in the world economy : Israel as an East Asian State / Michael N. Barnett -- The fetish of Jerusalem : a hegemonic analysis / Ian S. Lustick -- Society-formation and the case of Israel / Joel S. Migdal -- Between uniqueness and exclusion : the politics of identity in Israel / Rebecca Kook -- Zionism and colonialism : a comparative approach / Gershon Shafir -- On the uniqueness of Israel : multiple readings / Yehezkel Dror

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Diplomatic Battle: UN Discussions, February 1947-May 1948 -- Civil War in Palestine -- Making of the Refugee Problem -- Arab World Goes to War, or Does it? The General Arab Preparation -- Seeking a Comprehensive Peace - Count Bernadotte's Mission & the Development of the Military Campaigns -- Complete Takeover & the Israeli Struggle against Bernadotte's Legacy -- Armistice Agreements -- From Mediation to Conciliation: The Establishment of the Palestine Conciliation Commission -- Lausanne Conference -- Final Quest for Peace

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Palestinians and 1948 : the underlying causes of failure / Rashid Khalidi -- Revisiting the Palestinian exodus of 1948 / Benny Morris -- Druze and the birth of Israel / Laila Parsons -- Israel and the Arab coalition in 1948 / Avi Shlaim -- Jordan and 1948 : the persistence of an official history / Eugene L. Rogan -- Iraq and the 1948 War : mirror of Iraq's disorder / Charles Tripp -- Egypt and the 1948 War : internal conflict and regional ambition / Fawaz A. Gerges -- Syria and the Palestine War : fighting King Abdullah's "Greater Syria plan" / Joshua Landis -- Afterword : the consequences of 1948 / Edward W. Said

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Prologue: The Zionist Foundations -- Emergence of Israel 1947-1949 -- Consolidation 1949-1953 -- Attempts at Accommodation 1953-1955 -- Road to Suez 1955-1957 -- Alliance of the Periphery 1957-1963 -- Poor Little Samson 1963-1969 -- Immobilism 1969-1974 -- Disengagement 1974-1977 -- Peace with Egypt 1977-1981 -- Lebanese Quagmire 1981-1984 -- Political Paralysis 1984-1988 -- Stonewalling 1988-1992 -- Breakthrough 1992-1995 -- Setback 1995-1996 -- Back to the Iron Wall 1996-1998 -- Epilogue

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"Efraim Karsh suggests that, for the most part, the 'new historiography' has involved foul play, arguing that it has violated every tenet of bona fide research, from reading into documents what is not there to making false descriptions of the contents of these documents."

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"The Jewish State is a comprehensive interpretative study of the historical roots and contemporary functioning of Israel. Nationhood and democracy have not unfolded in a social or political vacuum, but instead developed from pre-state Jewish traditions in Palestine and in Eastern Europe. Dowty elucidates a broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets that have come to comprise the infrastructure of the contemporary political system. His analysis provides a new interpretation of the formation and development of the Israeli nation."

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The Emergence of Jewish Fundamentalism in Historical Perspective -- The Evolution of Gush Emunim & Related Groups -- The Worldview of Jewish Fundamentalism: the Breadth of Consensus -- The Range of Disagreement within Jewish Fundamentalism -- Present Trends & Future Implications

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Introduction: Israel as a Social Laboratory -- Israel as a Multi-Cleavage Society -- Ideology & Political Culture -- Government & Politics: from a Dominant Center to a Dual Center -- Democracy & National Security in a Protracted Conflict -- Israel at Forty: Utopia Impaired

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Background : a brief history -- The idea of 'transfer' in Zionist thinking before 1948 -- The first wave : the Arab exodus, December 1947 - March 1948 -- The second wave : the mass exodus, April - June 1948 -- Deciding against a return of the refugees, April - December 1948 -- Blocking a return -- The third wave : the Ten Days (9-18 July) and the second truce (18 July - 15 October) -- The fourth wave : the battles and exodus of October - November 1948 -- Clearing the borders : expulsions and population transfers, November 1948 - 1950 -- Solving the refugee problem, December 1948 - September 1949

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Introduction: A Historical Framework -- I: Searching for Palestine, 1949-1966 -- II: Years of Revolution, 1967-1972 -- III: State-in-Exile, 1973-1982 -- IV: Squaring the Circle: Statehood into Autonomy, 1983-1993

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1. The PLO in the 1980s -- 2. The phoenix hatches 1948-67 -- 3. The joy of flying 1967-73 -- 4. Caught in the Lebanon net (1973-76) -- 5. The net tightens (1977-80) -- 6. The broken wing (1981-February 1983) -- 7. Non-Fateh guerrilla groups -- 8. The movement inside historic Palestine -- 9. Arab relations -- 10. International relations -- 11. The irresistible force and the immovable object

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Gender & Culture in Exile -- The Palestinian Women's Movement: Organization & Representation -- Ideas & Action: Political Consciousness -- Mobilizing Women -- Action, Ideology & Gender in the National Movement -- Activism & Domesticity -- The Loss of Autonomy & the Transforming of Gender

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Mass Mobilization under Occupation -- The Structural Context -- The Political Context -- The Labor Movement -- The Women's Movement -- Popular Organizations & the Uprising

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Traditional Notable Elite in Palestine -- Rise of a New Political Elite in the West Bank and Gaza -- Professional Middle Class -- Abu Barbur: Elite Conflict and Social Change in Bayt Sahur -- Popular Committees in the Intifada -- Hamas and the Islamist Mobilization -- Logic of Palestinian State-Building after Oslo

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Emergence and Evolution of the Muslim Brotherhood Society -- Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestine Question -- Intifada -- Islamic Jihad

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"The authors lift the veil on Hamas's strategic decision-making methods at each of the crucial crossroads it has confronted: the Intifada and the struggle with the PLO, the Oslo accords and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority, and the dilemmas surrounding the choice between absolute Jihad against Israel versus the option of controlled violence."

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Question of Palestine & the Palestinians -- Before al-Nakbah: The Modern Social History of Palestine -- Road to al-Nakbah: The Palestine Mandate, 1917-1948 -- After al-Nakbah: The Palestinian Diaspora, 1948-1993 -- Rise & Fall of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, 1948-1993 -- Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation: The Intifada -- PLO-Israel Accords & the Future of Palestine & the Palestinians -- Epilogue: Whither Palestine & the Palestinians?

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Domestic determinants of Israeli foreign policy : the peace process from the Declaration of Principles to the Oslo II Interim Agreement / Myron J. Aronoff and Yael S. Aronoff -- Netanyahu and peace : from sound bites to sound policies? / Mark Rosenblum -- Palestinian and other Arab perspectives on the peace process / Muhammad Muslih -- Transformation of Jordan, 1991-1995 / Adam Garfinkle -- Syria and the transition to peace / Raymond H. Hinnebusch -- Egypt at the crossroads : domestic, economic, and political stagnation and foreign policy constraints / Louis J. Cantori -- Turkey and the Middle East after Oslo I / George E. Gruen -- Iraq after the Gulf War : the fallen idol / Phebe Marr -- Iran since the Gulf War / Shaul Bakhash -- Arabian Peninsula / F. Gregory Gause III -- North Africa in the nineties : moving toward stability? / Mary-Jane Deeb -- Sudan : militancy and isolation / Ann Mosely Lesch -- U.S. Middle East policy in the 1990s / Don Peretz -- Russia and the Middle East under Yeltsin / Robert O. Freedman

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"William B. Quandt analyzes how each U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson has dealt with the complex challenge of brokering peace in the Middle East, from the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to the death of Yasir Arafat. This classic work has now been updated to reflect recently declassified U.S. government documents and other published materials relating to the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton presidencies, and to carry the story through George W. Bush's first term."

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