Defending the Holy Land
by Maoz, ZeevFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-01-23
Publisher(s): Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary
A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Book jacket.
Author Biography
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 and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College.
Table of Contents
| Foundations | |
| The Israeli Security Puzzle | |
| Conceptions, Approaches, Paradoxes | p. 3 |
| The Use of Force | |
| The Sinai War | |
| The Making of the Second Round | p. 47 |
| The Six Day War | |
| Playing with Fire | p. 80 |
| The War of Attrition | |
| The First Payment for Arrogance | p. 113 |
| The Yom Kippur War | |
| The War That Shouldn't Have Been | p. 140 |
| The Lebanese Swamp, 1981-2000 | p. 171 |
| The Unlimited Use of the Limited Use of Force | |
| Israel and Low-Intensity Warfare | p. 231 |
| ISrael's Nuclear Policy | |
| The Mixed Blessing of Israel's Nuclear Policy | p. 301 |
| Foreign Policy: Shadow And Open Diplomacy | |
| Israeli Intervention in Intra-Arab Affairs | p. 361 |
| Never Missing an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity | |
| The Israeli Nonpolicy of Peace in the Middle East | p. 386 |
| Causes and Implications of the Mismanagement of National Security and Foreign Policy | |
| The Structure and Process of National Security and Foreign Policy in Israel | p. 499 |
| Principal Findings and Lessons | p. 544 |
| If so Bad, Why so Good? | |
| Explaining the Paradox of the Israeli Success Story | p. 564 |
| Paths to the Future | |
| Scenarios and Prescriptions | p. 597 |
| Afterword: The Second Lebanon Fiasco and the Never-Ending Intifada | p. 621 |
| Notes | p. 633 |
| Glossary | p. 665 |
| References | p. 669 |
| Author Index | p. 695 |
| Subject Index | p. 701 |
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