Ofira Seliktar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1190045 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ofira Seliktar |
| NOMBRES | Ofira |
| APELLIDO | Seliktar |
| FIRMA | SELIKTAR O |
| AFILIACIONES | Gratz College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Failure to Predict the Hamas Attack
Iran’s antisemitism and anti-Zionism
The discussion of Iran's antisemitism and anti-Zionism has been separated from the debate on the Islamist regime's nuclear project. A synthesis of the issues is needed given that both are the core of the regime's foreign policy. Some observers consider the regime's antisemitism and anti-Zionism – promising Israel's destruction – to be eliminationist. Most others, however, argue that the rhetoric is performative, designed to bolster the Shiite the…
Constructing the Oslo ‘peace’
The architects of the Oslo process, at both the academic and intelligence levels, used the faulty ‘New Middle East’ paradigm to posit that the Palestinians were ripe for peacemaking. They ignored the considerable strength of the Islamists who, controlled by the Iranian regime, were deployed as peace spoilers. More than two decades after the collapse of the 2000 Camp David summit, the role of the Iranians has not been fully understood, leading mos…
Iran's Geopolitics and Revolutionary Export
Emergence of a Binational Israel
The Emergence of a Binational Israel
Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars
Navigating Iran
This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of
The Obama Administration
After eight years of Republican rule, Liberal Internationalists saw a opportunity to change the direction of American foreign policy once again. Decrying the "adventurism in Iraq," they asserted that, at the end of Bush's tenure, the world was more dangerous, American enemies stronger, and its credibility in tatters. To remedy this situation, robust multinationalism anchored in an alliance with the Europeans and a vigorous engagement with Iran an…
Assessing Iran's Nuclear Rationality
The realization that Iran may soon develop nuclear weapons has generated a heated debate about the nation's ability to manage its arsenal. Part of the discourse about the nuclear rationality of Third Word dictatorship and rogue states, the debate has pitted so-called nuclear optimists, analysts confident that Iran is able to handle such weapons, against nuclear pessimists, who warn that the regime operates in a manner that deviates from the princ…
Assessing the Rationality of Autocrats
In 1960, Thomas Schelling warned that “... petty dictators may soon have the ability to startle us out of our wits with a nuclear explosion somewhere.” 1 Although nearly a half-century has passed sin
Doomed to Failure
This ground-breaking book examines how and why the much-vaunted Oslo Peace Accords between the Israelis and Palestinians collapsed. The author analyzes the players on both sides of the accords, pointing out the attitudes and actions that serve to undermine peace and promote conflict. On the one hand, she criticizes the Islamist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for not tolerating the idea of any true long-term peace with Israel. O…
Doomed to failure
The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq (The Middle East in Focus)
Coming at the heels of September 11, Operation Iraqi Freedom has focused the limelight on the way in which the United States predicts and manages political change. The failure to find WMD and more important, the continued violence in Iraq instead of the hoped for democracy, has engender an acrimonious debate on the motives of the Bush administration and its uses or misuses of intelligence. The question of who got what right or wrong has been foug…
To Martyr or Not to Martyr
The question of what policies may deter risk-taking actors who willingly commit suicide is not only theoretically challenging, but also of major importance to policymakers. Traditional deterrence theory, which is largely state-oriented, but has also delved into the realm of ordinary criminality, has not been adequately prepared to deal with individual or non-state actors who seem “irrational” because of their high propensity for risk taking and c…
Tenured Radicals’ in Israel
The April 2005 decision of the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) to call for an academic boycott of Haifa and Bar Ilan universities created a storm of protest in Israel and abroad. Even more indignation was directed towards the handful of Israeli academics that have supported the boycott. As in 2002, when the call for a boycott was first made, the dismay over the fact that Israeli scholars were instrumental in instigating such an a…
Divided We Stand
The relationship between Israel, American Jews, and the peace process has been a subject of passionate debate among scholars, political activists, and lay observers alike. This book is the first rigorous attempt to chart the impact of the peace process on the American Jewish community and its relationship with Israel, as mediated by the changing identity needs of American Jews. Overall, the trajectory of this relationship has been from a wide con…
Failing the Crystal Ball Test
With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels. Seliktar first examines how social science paradigms determine conceptualizations of political change, and then applies that analysis to understanding New Internationalism, the Carter administration's foreign policy philosophy at the time of the Shah's fall from power. …
The Emergence of a Binational Israel
The Arabs in Israel
This study uses the case of Israeli Arabs to analyze the impact of the system of controls in creating psychological quiescence in a subordinate minority. A theoretical framework, which accounts for both the aggregate process of ethnic political behavior and reduces the ethnic phenomenon to individual terms, is used. It provides a systematic insight into the way in which the attitudes of the minority are manipulated in order to subordinate them to…
The New Zionism
Socialization of National Ideology
for many years. Doob (1964, p. 1) puts the case well when he argues that is unquestionably one of the most important problems, if not the most important one, of this century. The significance of nationalism is currently most apparent in the developing nations in Africa and Asia, but problems of nationalism are also evident in a number of European countries which are affected by separatist sentiments
The Cost of Vigilance in Israel
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of the gun-butter tradeoff in Israel and to assess the level of public support for such a tradeoff. It was found that the extent of the gun-butter tradeoff is very considerable, both in terms of direct cuts in social and welfare spending and the less direct losses in opportunity costs. Because of the 'self-defense' nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it has often been argued that Israeli public …
Attitudes of Israeli Youth Toward the Middle East Conflict
This article examines and analyzes the results of a 1976 survey of Israeli high school students. Special attention is given to their views on Middle East conflict issues and overall attitudes toward, beliefs about, and perceptions of that conflict. A number of relationships are found between respondents' conflict attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions and their socio- economic, contextual, and political characteristics. Several comparisons are drawn…
The Arabs in Israel
This study uses the case of Israeli Arabs to analyze the impact of the system of controls in creating psychological quiescence in a subordinate minority. A theoretical framework, which accounts for both the aggregate process of ethnic political behavior and reduces the ethnic phenomenon to individual terms, is used. It provides a systematic insight into the way in which the attitudes of the minority are manipulated in order to subordinate them to…
Socialization of National Ideology
for many years. Doob (1964, p. 1) puts the case well when he argues that is unquestionably one of the most important problems, if not the most important one, of this century. The significance of nationalism is currently most apparent in the developing nations in Africa and Asia, but problems of nationalism are also evident in a number of European countries which are affected by separatist sentiments
Assessing Iran's Nuclear Rationality
The realization that Iran may soon develop nuclear weapons has generated a heated debate about the nation's ability to manage its arsenal. Part of the discourse about the nuclear rationality of Third Word dictatorship and rogue states, the debate has pitted so-called nuclear optimists, analysts confident that Iran is able to handle such weapons, against nuclear pessimists, who warn that the regime operates in a manner that deviates from the princ…
To Martyr or Not to Martyr
The question of what policies may deter risk-taking actors who willingly commit suicide is not only theoretically challenging, but also of major importance to policymakers. Traditional deterrence theory, which is largely state-oriented, but has also delved into the realm of ordinary criminality, has not been adequately prepared to deal with individual or non-state actors who seem “irrational” because of their high propensity for risk taking and c…
The Emergence of a Binational Israel
The New Zionism
The Cost of Vigilance in Israel
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of the gun-butter tradeoff in Israel and to assess the level of public support for such a tradeoff. It was found that the extent of the gun-butter tradeoff is very considerable, both in terms of direct cuts in social and welfare spending and the less direct losses in opportunity costs. Because of the 'self-defense' nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it has often been argued that Israeli public …
Attitudes of Israeli Youth Toward the Middle East Conflict
This article examines and analyzes the results of a 1976 survey of Israeli high school students. Special attention is given to their views on Middle East conflict issues and overall attitudes toward, beliefs about, and perceptions of that conflict. A number of relationships are found between respondents' conflict attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions and their socio- economic, contextual, and political characteristics. Several comparisons are drawn…
Attitudes of Israeli Youth Toward the Middle East Conflict
This article examines and analyzes the results of a 1976 survey of Israeli high school students. Special attention is given to their views on Middle East conflict issues and overall attitudes toward, beliefs about, and perceptions of that conflict. A number of relationships are found between respondents' conflict attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions and their socio- economic, contextual, and political characteristics. Several comparisons are drawn…
Socialization of National Ideology
for many years. Doob (1964, p. 1) puts the case well when he argues that is unquestionably one of the most important problems, if not the most important one, of this century. The significance of nationalism is currently most apparent in the developing nations in Africa and Asia, but problems of nationalism are also evident in a number of European countries which are affected by separatist sentiments
The Cost of Vigilance in Israel
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of the gun-butter tradeoff in Israel and to assess the level of public support for such a tradeoff. It was found that the extent of the gun-butter tradeoff is very considerable, both in terms of direct cuts in social and welfare spending and the less direct losses in opportunity costs. Because of the 'self-defense' nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it has often been argued that Israeli public …
The New Zionism
The Arabs in Israel
This study uses the case of Israeli Arabs to analyze the impact of the system of controls in creating psychological quiescence in a subordinate minority. A theoretical framework, which accounts for both the aggregate process of ethnic political behavior and reduces the ethnic phenomenon to individual terms, is used. It provides a systematic insight into the way in which the attitudes of the minority are manipulated in order to subordinate them to…
The Emergence of a Binational Israel
Failing the Crystal Ball Test
With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels. Seliktar first examines how social science paradigms determine conceptualizations of political change, and then applies that analysis to understanding New Internationalism, the Carter administration's foreign policy philosophy at the time of the Shah's fall from power. …
Divided We Stand
The relationship between Israel, American Jews, and the peace process has been a subject of passionate debate among scholars, political activists, and lay observers alike. This book is the first rigorous attempt to chart the impact of the peace process on the American Jewish community and its relationship with Israel, as mediated by the changing identity needs of American Jews. Overall, the trajectory of this relationship has been from a wide con…
Tenured Radicals’ in Israel
The April 2005 decision of the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) to call for an academic boycott of Haifa and Bar Ilan universities created a storm of protest in Israel and abroad. Even more indignation was directed towards the handful of Israeli academics that have supported the boycott. As in 2002, when the call for a boycott was first made, the dismay over the fact that Israeli scholars were instrumental in instigating such an a…
To Martyr or Not to Martyr
The question of what policies may deter risk-taking actors who willingly commit suicide is not only theoretically challenging, but also of major importance to policymakers. Traditional deterrence theory, which is largely state-oriented, but has also delved into the realm of ordinary criminality, has not been adequately prepared to deal with individual or non-state actors who seem “irrational” because of their high propensity for risk taking and c…
The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq (The Middle East in Focus)
Coming at the heels of September 11, Operation Iraqi Freedom has focused the limelight on the way in which the United States predicts and manages political change. The failure to find WMD and more important, the continued violence in Iraq instead of the hoped for democracy, has engender an acrimonious debate on the motives of the Bush administration and its uses or misuses of intelligence. The question of who got what right or wrong has been foug…
Assessing the Rationality of Autocrats
In 1960, Thomas Schelling warned that “... petty dictators may soon have the ability to startle us out of our wits with a nuclear explosion somewhere.” 1 Although nearly a half-century has passed sin
Doomed to Failure
This ground-breaking book examines how and why the much-vaunted Oslo Peace Accords between the Israelis and Palestinians collapsed. The author analyzes the players on both sides of the accords, pointing out the attitudes and actions that serve to undermine peace and promote conflict. On the one hand, she criticizes the Islamist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for not tolerating the idea of any true long-term peace with Israel. O…
Doomed to failure
Assessing Iran's Nuclear Rationality
The realization that Iran may soon develop nuclear weapons has generated a heated debate about the nation's ability to manage its arsenal. Part of the discourse about the nuclear rationality of Third Word dictatorship and rogue states, the debate has pitted so-called nuclear optimists, analysts confident that Iran is able to handle such weapons, against nuclear pessimists, who warn that the regime operates in a manner that deviates from the princ…
Navigating Iran
This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of
The Obama Administration
After eight years of Republican rule, Liberal Internationalists saw a opportunity to change the direction of American foreign policy once again. Decrying the "adventurism in Iraq," they asserted that, at the end of Bush's tenure, the world was more dangerous, American enemies stronger, and its credibility in tatters. To remedy this situation, robust multinationalism anchored in an alliance with the Europeans and a vigorous engagement with Iran an…
The Emergence of a Binational Israel
Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars
Constructing the Oslo ‘peace’
The architects of the Oslo process, at both the academic and intelligence levels, used the faulty ‘New Middle East’ paradigm to posit that the Palestinians were ripe for peacemaking. They ignored the considerable strength of the Islamists who, controlled by the Iranian regime, were deployed as peace spoilers. More than two decades after the collapse of the 2000 Camp David summit, the role of the Iranians has not been fully understood, leading mos…
Iran's Geopolitics and Revolutionary Export
Emergence of a Binational Israel
Iran’s antisemitism and anti-Zionism
The discussion of Iran's antisemitism and anti-Zionism has been separated from the debate on the Islamist regime's nuclear project. A synthesis of the issues is needed given that both are the core of the regime's foreign policy. Some observers consider the regime's antisemitism and anti-Zionism – promising Israel's destruction – to be eliminationist. Most others, however, argue that the rhetoric is performative, designed to bolster the Shiite the…
The Failure to Predict the Hamas Attack
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