Israel and the Family of Nations : The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415464413 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Amnon Rubinstein; Alexander Yakobson

Opis

Explores the nature of Israel's identity as a Jewish state, how that is compatible with liberal democratic norms and is comparable with a number of European states.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Establishment of the Jewish State - The UN Debates in 1947  2. Two Arguments: Zionist "Colonialism" and the "Invention" of the Jewish National Identity  3. Zionism and International Norms  4. The Jewish State and the Israeli Democracy  5. "Either Jewish or Democratic"?  6. "The Neutrality of the State" and the Democratic Nation-State  7. "Ethnic Democracy", "Ethnic Nationalism", "Civic Nationalism."  Epilogue