The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship

ISBN-13: 9781108427197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

David Tal (University of Sussex)

Opis

Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' relations between Israel and the United States. Questioning the usual neo-realist approach to understanding this relationship, David Tal instead suggests that the relations between the two nations were constructed on idealism, political culture, and strategic ties. Based on a diverse range of primary sources collected in archives in both Israel and the United States, The Making of an Alliance discusses the development of relations built through constant contact between people and ideas, showing how presidents and Prime Ministers, state officials, and ordinary people from both countries, impacted one another. It was this constancy of religion, values, and history, serving the bedrock of the relations between the two countries and peoples, over which the ephemeral was negotiated.

Recenzje

'The Making of an Alliance is an important addition to [the] literature. Relying on diplomatic sources, Tal painstakingly reconstructs the record of high-level diplomatic exchanges between the two countries across US administrations and Israeli premierships.' Neil Rogachevsky, Israel Studies Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The sources of the American support for Zionism; 2. Friendship: from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman; 3. Friendly impartiality, 1949–1958; 4. Strategic change 1958–1968; 5. From friendship to strategic alliance, 1969–1989; 6. Friendship and strategic alliance.