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1. Neutrality and Small States (Routledge Revivals)

   By Efraim Karsh

   Originally published in 1988, this book examines the experiences of neutral states in Europe during the Second World War and in the postwar peiod. It examines both the practical and the theoretical considerations and the interface between the two, and discusses the implications of the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Conflict, Diplomacy and Society in Israeli-Lebanese Relations

   Edited by Efraim Karsh, Michael Kerr, Rory Miller

   This book is a wide-ranging and innovative study of Israeli-Lebanese relations from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948 to the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006. Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbours is a subject of perennial interest in the Middle East. The relationship between Israel and...

   Published April 13th 2010 by Routledge
3. Islamic Attitudes to Israel

   Edited by Efraim Karsh, P.R. Kumaraswamy

   This book draws on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam. These highly topical essays examine the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective....

   Published November 19th 2009 by Routledge
4. Israel at Sixty

   Rethinking the birth of the Jewish state

   Edited by Efraim Karsh, Rory Miller

   Sixty years after the birth of Israel, this fascinating and original book of essays brings together a number of the leading experts on Zionism and Israel to examine the domestic and international context of Israel's transition from community to state in 1948. With contributions on a wide range of...

   Published December 16th 2008 by Routledge
5. Israel: The First Hundred Years

   Volume IV: Israel in the International Arena

   Edited by Efraim Karsh

   Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

   Born amidst the ruin of the Second World War and into the Cold War environment of machtpolitik, Israel has since its earliest existence commanded a place on the international stage out of all relation to its size, population or ambitions. This volume examines Israel's experience in foreign affairs...

   Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
6. Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians

   The Fateful Triangle

   Edited by Efraim Karsh, P.R. Kumaraswamy

   Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

   This volume provides a wide ranging historical survey of the special relationship between the Zionist movement and Israel with the Hashemite family and its far-reaching implications for Middle Eastern affairs in general, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. It includes chapters on...

   Published April 1st 2003 by Routledge
7. Rethinking the Middle East

   By Efraim Karsh

   Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

   Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a "culture of victimization"; it views the local populations of the Middle East Arabs in particular as the hapless victims of alien encroachment,...

   Published March 29th 2003 by Routledge
8. Israel: The First Hundred Years

   Volume III: Politics and Society since 1948

   Edited by Efraim Karsh

   Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

   Since its founding in 1948 Israel has faced many political, social and psychological challenges, unfamiliar to other nations on the western democratic political model and peculiar to the Jewish state. This work covers the role of politics in Israel since 1948....

   Published December 31st 2001 by Routledge
9. Israel: the First Hundred Years

   Volume II: From War to Peace?

   Edited by Efraim Karsh

   Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

   The end of the British mandate in Palestine heralded the birth of the new state of Israel. It also marked the end of one of the most tumultuous and momentous chapters in Israeli history. But the new state, born into a hostile environment and struggling with the manifold demands of sovereignty,...

   Published October 29th 2000 by Routledge
10. Fabricating Israeli History

    The 'New Historians', 2nd Edition

    By Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Israeli historiography is under assault by "new historians" exposing "Zionist narrative". This text takes issue with these "revisionists", arguing that they have ignored or misinterpreted much documentation in developing their analysis of Israel's history....

    Published June 9th 2000 by Routledge