Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
About the Book Series
The Arab-Israeli conflict continues to be the centre of academic and popular attention. This series brings together the best of the cutting edge work now being undertaken by predominantly new and young scholars. Although largely falling within the field of political science the series also includes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary contributions.
Understanding the Middle East Peace Process: Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity
1st Edition
By Asima Ghazi-Bouillon
May 10, 2013
Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on interviews with key ...
The Political Right in Israel: Different Faces of Jewish Populism
1st Edition
By Dani Filc
April 09, 2013
This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977, examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls. As such it demonstrates how populism has become a hugely ...
The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-politics in a mixed community
1st Edition
By Haim Yacobi
February 27, 2013
Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both ...
The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967
1st Edition
By Hillel Cohen
February 23, 2011
This book examines Palestinian politics in Jerusalem since 1967, and in particular since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, focusing on the city’s decline as an Arab city and the identity crisis among the Jerusalemite Palestinians. Principally concerned with Palestinian politics...
International Assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo: Political guilt, wasted money
1st Edition
By Anne Le More
July 06, 2010
Why has the West disbursed vertiginous sums of money to the Palestinians after Oslo? What have been donors’ motivations and above all the political consequences of the funds spent? Based on original academic research and first hand evidence, this book examines the interface between diplomacy and ...
Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude
1st Edition
By Benoit Challand
July 06, 2010
Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and ...
Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and community
1st Edition
By Esmail Nashif
June 07, 2010
Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds. This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Esmail Nashif ...