After the War in Iraq - Defining the New Strategic Balance

Focusing on the different dimensions to the war in Iraq launched in March 2003 by the United States, the essays here present concise and penetrating analyses, and explore the major implications of the war and their strategic, political and military contexts. Researchers from the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, experts in international relations, political science, strategic studies and political psychology, present an insightful picture of the war. The book contains a chronology surveying the International Inspection Regime in Iraq, 1991-2003, and the full text of 'The National Security Strategy of the United States of America', which should be regarded as the basis of the Bush administration's strategic rationale for the war in Iraq.

"A timely collection of essays generated by a series of brainstorming sessions at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies on the implications of the war in Iraq as seen from various disciplinary angles. The collection is divided into two parts, the first deals with the international context, the second, the impact on the region, especially Israel." -- The International Spectator. "Included here are essays on regional implications of the war; the extent to which the war has affected the Israeli-Palestinian peace; weapons of mass destruction; how the war has affected the strategic balance in the region; and finally Israel's home front defense policy and implications for the future. An excellent book... Highly recommended." - Choice

Arms Control in the Middle East : Cooperative Security Dialogue, and Regional Constraints

This is the story of a regional process in the making: from the very concept of arms control as applied to the region, through the innovative regional forum and format for discussion that was devised for the talks, to the dynamics of the talks and the question of Egypt’s position within this novel regional setting. The result was that what seemed at the outset to be a most likely unpromising forum became the setting of unprecedented regional dynamics.

Approaching Co-operative Security Dialogue; Arms Control as a Process; The Middle East Arms Control Dialogue; The Process of Arguing: Effects of the Seminar Framework; Arab Nationalism and Egypt’s Leadership Identity; Egypt’s Role in the Arms Control Dialogue; Bilateral Dynamics within the Multilateral Framework; Conclusion; Index.

Arms Transfers to Israel : The Strategic Logic Behind American Military Assistance

This book dispels two common myths about the American-Israeli patron-client relationship -- that arms transfers to Israel have been motivated by American domestic politics rather than national interests and that these arms transfers have come without any political strings attached to them. The first part of the book describes and analyses the institutionalisation of the American-Israeli arms pipeline during the Johnson administration, demonstrating conclusively in the process that arms transfers to the Jewish state were based primarily on American national interests. The second part of the book consists of four case studies that clearly reveal that American arms transfers to Israel, whether in wartime or in peacetime, have always come with a diplomatic price tag attached to them. The book is based largely on American government documents from the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, from the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library, and from the United States National Archives.
 

David J Danelo; Foreword by Steven Pressfield
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Building Sustainable Peace

As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding takes centre stage. This collection presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools which promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts. Copublished with United Nations University Press.

"...the well-versed duo (Tom Keating and W Andy Knight) assembled an impressive roster of international experts to outline a wide array of practical and theoretical bon mots about comprehensive and long-term peace building ranging from the on-the-ground experiences of David Beer (an RCMP officer who created the Canadian five year bilateral policing development assistance plan for Haiti) to an essay by former Edmonton Journal writer Satya Das, to papers penned by leading academics in the field..." Gilbert A Bouchard, Folio. "Keating and Knight's impressive array of scholars, UN and NGO employees, and soldiers share their ideas on what it actually takes to make cliches like 'building civil society' and 'healing the wounds of war' realities... This is not an easy book - it's obviously aimed at an academic audience - but its essays provide a glimpse into the morally ambiguous decisions that must be made by those who seek to be peacebuilders..." Alex Rettie, AlbertaViews. "...presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies..." - Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004 “[Peace building] involves disarming the warring parties, restoring order, repatriating refugees, providing training for security personnel and technical assistance, de-mining and other forms of demilitarization, monitoring elections, and reforming and strengthening government institutions. Building presents a timely and original overview of peace building theories and strategies....” Bill Twatio, esprit de corps (Canadian Military magazine), Vol. 12, No. 7, July 2005

Desert Mirage : The True Story of the Gulf War

Shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, author Martin Yant argued in a newspaper column that Saddam Hussein's "military machine" wasn't nearly the menace President Bush said it was. Rather than being a well-equipped and "battle-hardened" million-man Wehrmacht at the command of another Adolf Hitler, Yant suggested that the Iraqi army appeared to be a "war weary," smaller, supply-short force at the command of another Manuel Noriega. When the Persian Gulf War ended in February of 1991 in the U.S. led coalition's rout of the Iraqi army, Yant set out to write "Desert Mirage" to show how the Bush administration had deliberately deceived Americans into supporting the pursuit of power disguised as the pursuit of principle - at the cost of an estimated 375,000 lives. In the process, Yant shows how the "liberation" of Kuwait, whose occupation the Bush administration helped cause - either by ineptness or design - was merely a pretense for assertion of American power in the Middle East. Yant pieces together his convincing case from thousands of reports from dozens of sources that sporadically seeped through the administration's veil of deceit to reveal that the thunderously triumphant 'Desert Storm' was actually a deviously devised 'Desert Mirage' with far more foreboding causes and consequences than what the public could ever imagine.
 

From Fighters To Soldiers : How the Israeli Defense Forces Began

This book traces the development of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Contents: Foreword by Yoav Gelber; Introduction; The First Aliya: Defense and Guarding; The Heroic Phase; Protection by Baron Rothschild; The Transition to the JCA (1900); The Second Aliya: Ideology and Organisation; The Wellsprings of Bar Giora and Hashomer; The Founding of Bar Giora; Social and Cultural Background of the Founders; The Eighth Zionist Congress at The Hague; From Bar Giora to Hashomer; An Operational Base: From Sejera to Kefar Tabor; The Creation of Hashomer; Ideology, Structure and Institutions; Operational Methods Take Shape: 1908--1913; The Labour Legion; Internal Problems: blood feud (gum); agricultural settlement; leadership; cultural aspect; Hashomer and the Yishuv; The Attitude of the Workers' Parties; Hashomer, Institutions of the Yishuv, and the Zionist Movement; Other Guarding Organisations in the Yishuv; The Organisation and Ideology of Hashomer; Organisational and Practical Aspects: threshold of change (from August 1914 until the end of the year); decline (from the end of 1914 until August 1916); the awakening (August 1916-September 1917); the brink of dissolution (September 1917-April 1919); Ideological and Political Changes: underground-revolutionary stage (September 1907-April 1909); the legal stage (April 1909-late 1914, early 1915); ideological revolution (early 1915-British conquest); The Status of Women in Hashomer; The Second Aliya; Services and Welfare; The Attitude Toward the Arabs; The Poaley Zion Party; Hashomer and the Arab Milieu; Daily Relations with the Arabs; The Test of Guarding; The Disbanding of Hashomer; The End of the War; Why was Hashomer Dissolved?: rural and urban defence; organisation: limited and selective, or popular and general?; authority and sovereignty From Unity to Dissolution, 1920-1927; The Mis-Step (12 June 1920-End of 1922): attitude to the security issue; Ahdut Ha'avoda and the Histadrut; the alternative: The Joseph Trumpeldor Labor Battalion; The Intolerable dualism (June 1920-End of 1923): the founding of Hakibbutz; the period of dualism; Activities of Hakibbutz: separate frameworks; The Rift and the End (1923-1927); The Hapoel Association, 1930-1935; Struggle between the Palestinian Labour Movement and Revisionism for Hegemony over Zionism (1925--1933): the ideological-political clash; struggle over Weizmann's succession (1929--1931); labor relations and violence; The Hagana: From Histadrut Control to National Control: the 1929 disturbances and split in the Hagana; transition from Histadrut control to national control; Special Concepts, Special Tools: David Ben-Gurion in 1928-1931: struggle for the creation of The League for Labour Palestine; tendency to convert Hapoel into a Palestinian Schutzbund; integration of Hashomer people in Hapoel (1930-1934); The Conflict Years (1931-1934): debate over the nature and purpose of Hapoel; debate on violence in Mapai; establishment of the Hasadran ‘‘Attendants'‘ Association; Swan-Song (1934-1935): ‘‘From Class to Nation'‘ -- Ben-Gurion's change in attitude to the Zionist Organisation and the struggle against Revisionism; Why did Hashomer people resign from Hapoel institutions?; Epilogue: the Hapoel Companies (1936); Conclusions.