This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace.It offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processes - in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine - and provides historical and comparative perspectives on the failure of the Middle East peace process."
This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace.It offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processe...
In recent years the conflicts in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland continue to oscillate between momentum for peaceful resolution and regression into new cycles of violence or political deadlock. To understand these shifts Guy Ben-Porat provides an in-depth analysis of the global environment and the profound effect it has on local conflicts. Because globalization affects localized social structures, institutions, and political divisions as well as international relationships between states and societies, it offers a unique perspective from which to examine the commonalities and...
In recent years the conflicts in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland continue to oscillate between momentum for peaceful resolution and regression i...
This book provides an integrated analysis of the complex nature of citizenship in Israel. Contributions from leading social and political theorists explore different aspects of citizenship through the demands and struggles of minority groups to provide a comprehensive picture of the dynamics of Israeli citizenship and the dilemmas that emerge at the collective and individual levels. Considering the many complex layers of membership in the state of Israel including gender, ethnicity and religion, the book identifies and explores processes of inclusion and exclusion that are general issues in...
This book provides an integrated analysis of the complex nature of citizenship in Israel. Contributions from leading social and political theorists ex...
Political debates in many Mediterranean countries today are increasingly framed in dichotomous terms, highlighting divisions between religious and secular worldviews. The role of religion in public life or, put another way, the public return of religion, is a pertinent and controversial political question everywhere in the Mediterranean region. How do we explain this phenomenon? On the one hand, we can point to both economic and demographic changes, while, on the other, we can trace the impact of continuing secularisation. Together these two sets of developments produce new challenges to...
Political debates in many Mediterranean countries today are increasingly framed in dichotomous terms, highlighting divisions between religious and ...
This text examines the nature of citizenship in Israel as pertaining to particular group demands and to the dynamics of political life in the public arena.
This text examines the nature of citizenship in Israel as pertaining to particular group demands and to the dynamics of political life in the public a...
Examines Israel and its policing of minorities through the perceptions and experiences of four distinct minority groups, touching on the issues of racial profiling, police violence, trust and legitimacy of the police and the state.
Examines Israel and its policing of minorities through the perceptions and experiences of four distinct minority groups, touching on the issues of rac...
