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Besieged Bedfellows

Author : Benjamin M. Joseph
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Besieged Bedfellows written by Benjamin M. Joseph and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the several books that deal with the relationship between Israel and South Africa, this is the most scholarly and sophisticated. Joseph argues that the relationship took a long time to evolve and that it rests on a community of interests and complementary resources. Most important, as the world's two remaining political systems committed to separatist philosophies that exclude indigenous Third World majorities, they have developed an underlying sense of solidarity and kinship. . . . [T]his is a valuable and solid contribution to an understanding of what is widely held to be a highly anomolous relationship. Choice A provocative look at the surprisingly close relationship between Israel and South Africa. Besieged Bedfellows draws on a wealth of Western, South African, Israeli sources, including materials previously published only in Hebrew. The book examines the commercial and military spheres of this relationship as well as the available information on Israeli-South African nuclear cooperation. A seperate chapter addresses the familiar objection, Everyone does it [business with South Africa]--why focus on Israel? The book next gives a profile of South African Jewry and what, if any, role this community might have played in forging the connection. Besieged Bedfellows goes on to present a compelling case that there is a great deal more to the Israeli-South African relationship than expediency and realpolitik. The author demonstrates that as well as conducting business, South African whites and Israelis have shown a considerable amount of solidarity and understanding towards each other. He then carefully examines the backgrounds and ruling ideologies of these two political groups.

South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction

Author : Helen E. Purkitt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253003065
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction written by Helen E. Purkitt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction offers an in-depth view of the secret development and voluntary disarmament of South Africa's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons program, Project Coast. Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess explore how systems used for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in South Africa were acquired and established beyond the gaze of international and domestic political actors. On the basis of archival evidence from Project Coast and their own extensive interviews with military and political officials, Purkitt and Burgess consider what motivates countries to acquire and build such powerful weaponry and examine when and how decisions are made to dismantle a military arsenal voluntarily. Questions such as how to destroy weapons safely and keep them from reappearing on international markets are considered along with comparative strategies for successful disarmament in other nation-states.

The Unspoken Alliance

Author : Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388506
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Unspoken Alliance written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South Africa, for its part, was controlled by a regime of Afrikaner nationalists who had enthusiastically supported Hitler during World War II. But after Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, the country found itself estranged from former allies and threatened anew by old enemies. As both states became international pariahs, a covert—and lucrative—military relationship blossomed between these seemingly unlikely allies. Based on extensive archival research and exclusive interviews with former generals and high-level government officials in both countries, The Unspoken Alliance tells a troubling story of Cold War paranoia, moral compromises, and startling secrets.

Besieged

Author : Sharon Alker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228005922
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by Sharon Alker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the Great Northern War in Europe, a period in which literary texts reflected an urgent interest in siege mentality and tactics. Exploring the siege as represented in canonical works by Milton, Dryden, Defoe, Davenant, Cowley, Cavendish, and Bunyan, alongside a wide array of little-known memoirs, plays, poems, and works of prose fiction on military and civilian experiences of siege warfare, Besieged breaks new ground in the field of early modern war literature. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson draw on theories of space and place to show how early modern Britons feverishly worked to make sense of the immediacy, horror, and trauma of urban warfare, offering a valuable perspective on the literature that captured the cultural imagination during and after the traumatic civil wars of the 1640s. Alker and Nelson demonstrate how the narratives of besieged cities became a compelling way to engage with the fragility of urban space, unstable social structures, developing technologies, and the inadequacy of old heroic martial models. Given the reality of urban warfare in our own age, Besieged provides a timely foundation for understanding the history of such spaces and their cultural representation.

Seeking Mandela

Author : Heribert Adam
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592133994
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Mandela written by Heribert Adam and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from South Africa for the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Besieged Bedfellows

Author : Benjamin M. Joseph
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Peace-making in Divided Societies

Author : Heribert Adam
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796920805
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Peace-making in Divided Societies written by Heribert Adam and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the lessons that the unresolved Israel-Palestinian conflict can draw from South Africa's 'negotiated revolution'. Six realms are compared: economic interdependence, religious divisions, third party intervention, leadership, political culture and violence. Contrasting insights form two opposite solutions to a nationalist conflict shed light on the nature of ethnicity as well as the limits of negotiation politics.

Liberation and Democratization

Author : Mona Younis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904023
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Liberation and Democratization written by Mona Younis and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Middle East

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle East written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mortality and Morality of Nations

Author : Uriel Abulof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368750
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Mortality and Morality of Nations written by Uriel Abulof and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.

Neoliberal Apartheid

Author : Andy Clarno
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643009X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberal Apartheid written by Andy Clarno and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comparative analysis of the political transitions in South Africa and Palestine since the 1990s. Clarno s study is grounded in impressive ethnographic fieldwork, taking him from South African townships to Palestinian refugee camps, where he talked to a wide array of informants, from local residents to policymakers, political activists, business representatives, and local and international security personnel. The resulting inquiry accounts for the simultaneous development of extreme inequality, racialized poverty, and advanced strategies for securing the powerful and policing the poor in South Africa and Palestine/Israel over the last 20 years. Clarno places these transitions in a global context while arguing that a new form of neoliberal apartheid has emerged in both countries. The width and depth of Clarno s research, combined with wide-ranging first-hand accounts of realities otherwise difficult for researchers to access, make Neoliberal Apartheid a path-breaking contribution to the study of social change, political transitions, and security dynamics in highly unequal societies. Take one example of Clarno s major themes, to wit, the issue of security. Both places have generated advanced strategies for securing the powerful and policing the racialized poor. In South Africa, racialized anxieties about black crime shape the growth of private security forces that police poor black South Africans in wealthy neighborhoods. Meanwhile, a discourse of Muslim terrorism informs the coordinated network of security forcesinvolving Israel, the United States, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authoritythat polices Palestinians in the West Bank. Overall, Clarno s pathbreaking book shows how the shifting relationship between racism, capitalism, colonialism, and empire has generated inequality and insecurity, marginalization and securitization in South Africa, Palestine/Israel, and other parts of the world."

Theodor Herzl: From Europe to Zion

Author : Mark H. Gelber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110936054
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Theodor Herzl: From Europe to Zion written by Mark H. Gelber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004 the one-hundredth anniversary of Theodor Herzl’s death was commemorated throughout the world. The myth of Herzl, as it has developed over the last century, has perhaps become more important than the historical figure. This volume contains revised and expanded essays, which were originally delivered as lectures at international Herzl centennial conferences in Antwerp, London, and Jerusalem. Topics treated include the Herzl myth, Herzl’s nationalism and Zionism, his self-understanding and image, his authorship of comedies and philosophical tales, Herzl and Africa, as well as his reception in Israeli and other literature. Zweig films are also considered within this same context.

The Nonsuperpowers and South Africa

Author : Richard J. Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nonsuperpowers and South Africa written by Richard J. Payne and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Israel

Author : Howard M. Sachar
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804150494
Total Pages : 1297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A History of Israel written by Howard M. Sachar and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 1297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. Decades later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work. The second edition of this volume covers topics such as the first of the Aliyahs in the 1880s; the rise of Jewish nationalism; the beginning of the political Zionist movement and, later, how the movement changed after Theodor Herzl; the Balfour Declaration; the factors that led to the Arab-Jewish confrontation; Palestine and its role both during the Second World War and after; the war of independence and the many wars that followed it over the next few decades; and the development of the Israeli republic and the many challenges it faced, both domestic and foreign, and still faces today. This is a truly enriching and exhaustive history of a nation that holds claim to one of the most complicated and controversial histories in the world.

Historical Dictionary of Israel

Author : Bernard Reich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144227185X
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Israel written by Bernard Reich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its creation, the State of Israel has been a magnet for attention. A country beset by conflict in its region and faced with the need to integrate mainly Jewish immigrants of disparate backgrounds into a modern and advanced democratic state and society, Israel has preoccupied observers, scholars and journalists since its independence in May 1948. Although a Jewish state Israel is also a democratic state that guarantees the rights of all of its citizens, including its large Arab and Moslem minority, in law and in practice. Israel and its modern history and politics have been the subject of substantial and often highly partisan literature, being hotly and vigorously debated both at home and abroad. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Israel contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1100 cross-referenced entries onsignificant persons, places, events, government institutions, political parties, and battles, as well as entries on Israel’s economy, society, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the various diplomatic and political personalities, institutions, organizations, events, concepts, and documents that together define the political life of the Jewish state of Israel.

Africa and U.S. National Interests

Author : Frances K. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and U.S. National Interests written by Frances K. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Special Bibliography Series

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: