Defending the Holy Land

by Maoz, Zeev

• ISBN13: 9780472033416
• ISBN10: 0472033417
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-23
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College.

Table of Contents

Foundations
The Israeli Security Puzzle
Conceptions, Approaches, Paradoxes	p. 3
The Use of Force
The Sinai War
The Making of the Second Round	p. 47
The Six Day War
Playing with Fire	p. 80
The War of Attrition
The First Payment for Arrogance	p. 113
The Yom Kippur War
The War That Shouldn't Have Been	p. 140
The Lebanese Swamp, 1981-2000	p. 171
The Unlimited Use of the Limited Use of Force
Israel and Low-Intensity Warfare	p. 231
ISrael's Nuclear Policy
The Mixed Blessing of Israel's Nuclear Policy	p. 301
Foreign Policy: Shadow And Open Diplomacy
Israeli Intervention in Intra-Arab Affairs	p. 361
Never Missing an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity
The Israeli Nonpolicy of Peace in the Middle East	p. 386
Causes and Implications of the Mismanagement of National Security and Foreign Policy
The Structure and Process of National Security and Foreign Policy in Israel	p. 499
Principal Findings and Lessons	p. 544
If so Bad, Why so Good?
Explaining the Paradox of the Israeli Success Story	p. 564
Paths to the Future
Scenarios and Prescriptions	p. 597
Afterword: The Second Lebanon Fiasco and the Never-Ending Intifada	p. 621
Notes	p. 633
Glossary	p. 665
References	p. 669
Author Index	p. 695
Subject Index	p. 701
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