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Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy
Zeev Maoz
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Description for Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy
Hardcover. A comprehensive and critical analysis of Israel's national security and foreign policy since the inception of the state of Israel. This book argues that Israel's national security policy rested on a trigger-happy approach to the use of force combined with a hesitant and reactive peace diplomacy. Num Pages: 768 pages, 21 figures, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1139.
Most of the wars in which Israel has been involved were the result of Israeli aggression, flawed decision making, and conflict management strategies, or were otherwise avoidable. According to esteemed scholar and policy analyst Zeev Maoz, Israel's war experience is a story of folly, recklessness, and self-made traps. None of the wars - with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence - were what Israelis call wars of necessity. They were all wars of choice or folly. ""Defending the Holy Land"" is a comprehensive and critical analysis of Israel's national security and foreign policy from the inception of ... Read more
Most of the wars in which Israel has been involved were the result of Israeli aggression, flawed decision making, and conflict management strategies, or were otherwise avoidable. According to esteemed scholar and policy analyst Zeev Maoz, Israel's war experience is a story of folly, recklessness, and self-made traps. None of the wars - with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence - were what Israelis call wars of necessity. They were all wars of choice or folly. ""Defending the Holy Land"" is a comprehensive and critical analysis of Israel's national security and foreign policy from the inception of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115402
SKU
V9780472115402
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About Zeev Maoz
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 at Tel Aviv University and the Jaffee Center of Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, and the former director of the M.A. Program of the National Defense College of the IDF.
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