Efraim Karsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 359685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Efraim Karsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Efraim |
| FAMILY NAME | Karsh |
| SIGNATURE | KARSH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Oslo to Be’eri
The Oslo disaster 30 years on
Thirty years after its euphoric launch, the ‘Oslo peace process’ between Israel and the PLO stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war, and the most catastrophic strategic blunder in Israel’s history. By replacing Israel’s control of the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians with corrupt and repressive terrorist entities that indoctrinated their subjects with burning hatred of Jews and Israelis, as well …
The long trail of Palestinian antisemitism
Contrary to the commonly held misconception, Palestinian antisemitism is not a corollary of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but the other way around: the perpetuation of the conflict is a direct result of the deeply ingrained Palestinian-Arab Jew-hatred and the attendant rejection of any form of Jewish statehood. From the onset of the conflict, a century ago to this day, Palestinian Arabs have been subjected to a sustained hate campaign of racia…
Introduction
The Israel-Iran conflict
Since its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been openly and vociferously committed to the destruction of the State of Israel.To thwart this genocidal goal -especially the lethal threat of Tehran's dogged quest for nuclear weapons -Israel has heavily relied on the United States, its longstanding, foremost international ally.Over the past two decades, as its relations with China have greatly expanded, Israel has also sought to…
Soft Threats to National Security
Arab responses to fascism and Nazism
Arab responses to fascism and Nazism: attraction and repulsion." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17(3), pp. 388–389
Palestine Betrayed
The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeply rooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of…
Conflict, Diplomacy and Society in Israeli-Lebanese Relations
1. The Evolution of Israeli-Lebanese Relations: From Implicit Peace to Explicit Conflict Hilal Khashan 2. Point of Departure: The 1967 War and the Jews of Lebanon Kirsten E. Schulze 3. 'A Positive Aspect to the Tragedy of Lebanon' - The convergence of US, Syrian and Israeli Interests at the Outset of Lebanon's Civil War Michael Kerr 4. History Revisited or Revamped? The Maronite Factor in Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon Laurie Eisenberg 5. The …
From Rabin to Netanyahu
This book goes a long way to explaining at least the choices and room for manoeuvre Netanyahu has for the foreseeable future...so it presents a comprehensive account of the profound changes which Israel has undergone in the 1990s not only in attitudes and policies towards the peace process but in domestic policies as well vital addition to the literature Israeli Perspectives Journal Of Peace Research: Still, the book pays justice to the volatilit…
Israel
Since its founding in 1948 Israel has faced many political, social and psychological challenges, unfamiliar to other nations on the western democratic political model and peculiar to the Jewish state. This work covers the role of politics in Israel since 1948
Israel's Arabs
The violence wrought by Israel's Arabs on their Jewish compatriots in October 2000 was not an act of social protest as wrongly claimed by the Orr commission, but rather an internal uprising in support of an external attack. Just as the leader of the Palestinian Arabs during the mandate era, Hajj Amin Husseini, dragged his reluctant constituents into a disastrous conflict that culminated in their collective undoing, and Yasser Arafat used the Oslo…
Islamic Attitudes to Israel
This book draws on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam. These highly topical essays examine the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective. Divided into two distinct sections, the first section of the book deals with issues relating to contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations and, in particular, l…
The war against the Jews
The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and since Zionism is the Jewish people's national liberation movement, anti-Zionism - as opposed to criticism of specific Israeli policies or actions - means denial of the Jewish right to national self-determination. Such a discriminatory denial of thi…
Neutrality and Small States
How many Palestinian Arab refugees were there
The number of Palestinian Arabs fleeing their homes during the 1948 war has constituted one of the most intractable bones of contention of the Arab–Israeli conflict, not least since the Palestinians have insisted on the ‘right of return’ of these individuals and their descendants to territory that has long been part of the state of Israel. At the end of the war, the Israeli government set the number of Palestinian refugees at 550,000–600,000; the…
Zionism and the Palestinians
The Missing Piece
Islamic Imperialism
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of lo…
The Long Trail of Islamic Anti-Semitism
The belief that Muslim opposition to Israel is motivated by anti-Zionism, rather than anti-Semitism, has been a staple of anti-Israel propaganda. This claim is buttressed by the argument that the Muslim treatment of their Jewish minorities in the centuries prior to the establishment of Israel was superior to that of Christian Europe. While this is true to a certain extent, it is also true that Jews under Muslim rule faced systematic discriminatio…
Resurrecting the Myth
The accusation that the Zionist movement had a pre-arranged plan to ‘transfer’ the Palestinian Arab population out of Palestine, and that this took place during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, has been a staple of Arab anti-Zionist propaganda for over half a century. In its most recent manifestation it has been an important argument of the group of Israeli historians – who labelled themselves ‘New Historians’ – who have championed the Arab cause. This…
Israel
Born amidst the ruin of the Second World War and into the Cold War environment of machtpolitik, Israel has since its earliest existence commanded a place on the international stage out of all relation to its size, population or ambitions. This volume examines Israel's experience in foreign affairs in its fifty years of statehood. Contributors ask to what extent an Israeli foreign policy can be said to be a Zionist foreign policy and analyse Israe…
Freya Stark in America
Between November 1943 and May 1944, Freya Stark, the noted writer, Arabian adventurer and wartime propagandist, undertook a publicity tour of the United States on behalf of the British Ministry of Information. The objective of her trip was to defend Britain’s wartime Palestine policy, especially the 1939 White Paper and its severe restriction on Jewish immigration into Palestine. Since its implementation, the White Paper had been subject to criti…
Being Yasir Arafat
Two Israeli studies of the polarizing Palestinian leader don't shed much light on their subject. But they do make clear why his time may be past
Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians
1. Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians: The Fateful Triangle 2. The Imperialist Ties that Bind: Transjordan and the Yishuv 3. Jordan's Alliance with Israel and its Effects on Jordanian-Arab Relations 4. Is Jordan Palestine? Comparing Palestinian Perspectives in the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Jordan on Jordanian-Israeli Relations 5. The Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty: Patterns of Negotiation, Problems of Implementation 6. Israel, Jordan…
The Gulf conflict, 1990-1991
"The Gulf Conflict provides the most authoritative and comprehensive account to date of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, its expulsion by a coalition of Western and Arab forces seven months later, and the aftermath of the war. Blending compelling narrative history with objective analysis, Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh inquire into the fundamental issues underlying the dispute and probe the strategic calculations of all the participants. As seen …
How Kuwait Was Won
The Long Trail of Islamic Anti-Semitism
The belief that Muslim opposition to Israel is motivated by anti-Zionism, rather than anti-Semitism, has been a staple of anti-Israel propaganda. This claim is buttressed by the argument that the Muslim treatment of their Jewish minorities in the centuries prior to the establishment of Israel was superior to that of Christian Europe. While this is true to a certain extent, it is also true that Jews under Muslim rule faced systematic discriminatio…
Islamic Attitudes to Israel
This book draws on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam. These highly topical essays examine the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective. Divided into two distinct sections, the first section of the book deals with issues relating to contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations and, in particular, l…
Regional security regimes
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Journal Article The Israeli–Palestinian conflict: a documentary record, 1967–1990 Get access The Israeli–Palestinian conflict: a documentary record, 1967–1990. Edited by Yehuda Lukacs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. 549pp. Pb.: £16.95. ISBN 0 521 37597 5. Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh 1King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Pag…
International handbook on chemical weapons proliferation
Why Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait
Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians
1. Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians: The Fateful Triangle 2. The Imperialist Ties that Bind: Transjordan and the Yishuv 3. Jordan's Alliance with Israel and its Effects on Jordanian-Arab Relations 4. Is Jordan Palestine? Comparing Palestinian Perspectives in the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Jordan on Jordanian-Israeli Relations 5. The Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty: Patterns of Negotiation, Problems of Implementation 6. Israel, Jordan…
Saddam Hussein
Geographical Determinism
This article explores the effects of two types of geostrategic location, i.e., buffer-state and rimstate status, on small states' policy of neutrality. The major proposition set forth is that while neutrality constitutes a viable option for a rimstate it is not a foreign policy instrument a buffer state can afford. Finland's historical experience provides a vivid illustration of this state of affairs: given its geostrategic position as a buffer s…
How many Palestinian Arab refugees were there
The number of Palestinian Arabs fleeing their homes during the 1948 war has constituted one of the most intractable bones of contention of the Arab–Israeli conflict, not least since the Palestinians have insisted on the ‘right of return’ of these individuals and their descendants to territory that has long been part of the state of Israel. At the end of the war, the Israeli government set the number of Palestinian refugees at 550,000–600,000; the…
Freya Stark in America
Between November 1943 and May 1944, Freya Stark, the noted writer, Arabian adventurer and wartime propagandist, undertook a publicity tour of the United States on behalf of the British Ministry of Information. The objective of her trip was to defend Britain’s wartime Palestine policy, especially the 1939 White Paper and its severe restriction on Jewish immigration into Palestine. Since its implementation, the White Paper had been subject to criti…
The lessons of modern war, vol. iv
Journal Article The lessons of modern war, vol. iv: The Gulf War Get access The lessons of modern war, vol. iv: The Gulf War. By Anthony H. Cordesmanand Abraham R. Wagner. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1996. 1022pp. Index. £72.50. ISBN 0 8133 8601 2. Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1…
International Co-operation and Neutrality
Contrary to widely held beliefs and expectations during both the 'twenty years' crisis' and the postwar era, the gulf between international co-operation and neutrality has proved to be significantly narrower in practice than in theory. Neutrality has evolved into a dynamic, enterprising policy emphasising participation and activism in international life. Broadly speaking, participation in universal organisations, particularly in the United Nation…
Military power and foreign policy goals
Military power and foreign policy goals: the Iran-Iraq war revisited Get access Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 83–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621495 Published: 01 January 1987
From Oslo to Be’eri
Israel's Arabs
The violence wrought by Israel's Arabs on their Jewish compatriots in October 2000 was not an act of social protest as wrongly claimed by the Orr commission, but rather an internal uprising in support of an external attack. Just as the leader of the Palestinian Arabs during the mandate era, Hajj Amin Husseini, dragged his reluctant constituents into a disastrous conflict that culminated in their collective undoing, and Yasser Arafat used the Oslo…
The war against the Jews
The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and since Zionism is the Jewish people's national liberation movement, anti-Zionism - as opposed to criticism of specific Israeli policies or actions - means denial of the Jewish right to national self-determination. Such a discriminatory denial of thi…
Zionism and the Palestinians
Resurrecting the Myth
The accusation that the Zionist movement had a pre-arranged plan to ‘transfer’ the Palestinian Arab population out of Palestine, and that this took place during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, has been a staple of Arab anti-Zionist propaganda for over half a century. In its most recent manifestation it has been an important argument of the group of Israeli historians – who labelled themselves ‘New Historians’ – who have championed the Arab cause. This…
Being Yasir Arafat
Two Israeli studies of the polarizing Palestinian leader don't shed much light on their subject. But they do make clear why his time may be past
Rethinking the Middle East
1.Why the Middle East is so Volatile 2. Reactive Imperialism 3. Victim or Failed Aggressor? The Ottoman Entry into the First World War 4. Rethinking the Creation of the Modern Middle East 5. Cold War, Post-Cold War: Does it Make a Difference for the Middle East? 6. The Long Tail of Arab Anti-Semitism 7. The Collusion that never was - King Abdallah, the Jewish Agency, and the Partition of Palestine 8. Were the Palestinians Expelled? 9. The Palesti…
Cold War, post-Cold War
While the euphoric predictions of a ‘New World Order’ and the ‘End of History’ have been buried in the alleys of Sarajevo and the killing fields of Rwanda and Chechnya, the end of the Cold War still constitutes the primary prism through which world affairs in general, and Middle Eastern events in particular, are observed. When in 1991 an American-led international coalition under the auspices of the United Nations expelled Iraq from the emirate o…
Myth in the desert, or not the Great Arab Revolt
(1997). Myth in the desert, or not the Great Arab Revolt. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 267-312
The cautious bear
Geographical Determinism
This article explores the effects of two types of geostrategic location, i.e., buffer-state and rimstate status, on small states' policy of neutrality. The major proposition set forth is that while neutrality constitutes a viable option for a rimstate it is not a foreign policy instrument a buffer state can afford. Finland's historical experience provides a vivid illustration of this state of affairs: given its geostrategic position as a buffer s…
Finland
Journal Article Finland: adaptation and conflict Get access Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 2, spring 1986, Pages 265–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2618365 Published: 01 April 1986
Military power and foreign policy goals
Military power and foreign policy goals: the Iran-Iraq war revisited Get access Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 83–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621495 Published: 01 January 1987
International Co-operation and Neutrality
Contrary to widely held beliefs and expectations during both the 'twenty years' crisis' and the postwar era, the gulf between international co-operation and neutrality has proved to be significantly narrower in practice than in theory. Neutrality has evolved into a dynamic, enterprising policy emphasising participation and activism in international life. Broadly speaking, participation in universal organisations, particularly in the United Nation…
The Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in the summer of 1988, a month short of its eighth anniversary, is undoubtedly the Third World's longest and bloodiest conflict in a half-century. As such, its lessons a
From Ideological Zeal to Geopolitical Realism
There are probably no two political systems more antithetic than monarchic and republican Iran; the deep ideological gulf between these two regimes dating back to the millenarian cultural-religious confrontation between West and East: between the drive for modernization and the yearning for the Islamic origins; between the cultural emulation and the political alignment with the West and the perception of Western civilization as the source of all …
Iran-Iraq War
Escalation in the Iran‐Iraq War
Neutrality
The Soviet Union and Syria
This paper examines the nature of Soviet relations with Syria, assessing the commitments made and the gains reaped by Moscow and Damascus in the economic, military and political spheres. This book should be of interest to students of politics and international relations
The Iran-Iraq War
Part 1 The war and the belligerents: Iran and the war - from stalemate to ceasefire, Shahram Chubin from ideological zeal to geopolitical realism - the Islamic republic and the Gulf, Efraim Karsh Iran - doctrine and reality, David Menashri the consequences of the Iran-Iraq war for Iraqi politics, Charles Tripp Iraq - between East and West, Amazia Baram. Part 2 Regional implications: the impact on the Arab world, Itamar Rabinovich the war and the …
Between East and West
Journal Article Between East and West: Israel's foreign policy 1948–1956 and Israel and the world after 40 years Get access Between East and West: Israel's foreign policy 1948–1956. By Uri Bialer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 291pp. Index. (LSE Monographs in International Studies.) £30.00. ISBN 0 521 36249 0.Israel and the world after 40 years. By Aaron S. Klieman. MacLean, VA: Pergamon-Brassey's. 1989. 275pp. Index. $24.95. ISBN …
How Kuwait Was Won
Why Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait
The Persian Gulf War
Revolution and foreign policy
Journal Article Revolution and foreign policy: the case of South Yemen 1967–1987 Get access Revolution and foreign policy: the case of South Yemen 1967–1987. By Fred Halliday. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 315pp. Index. (Middle East Library 21.) £32.50. ISBN 0 521 32856 x. Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh 1King's College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issu…
Soviet-Third World relations in a capitalist world
Journal Article Soviet-Third World relations in a capitalist world Get access Soviet-Third World relations in a capitalist world. By Ellen Brunand Jacques Hersh. London: Macmillan for Danish International Development Agency. 1990. 335pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 333 52036 x. Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh 1King's College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 4, October 199…
Saddam Hussein
International handbook on chemical weapons proliferation
Paradoxes of war
Journal Article Paradoxes of war: on the art of national self-entrapment and The lessons of modern war. Vol. 1: The Arab-Israeli conflicts, 1973–1989 Get access Paradoxes of war: on the art of national self-entrapment. By Zeev Maoz. London: Unwin Hyman. 1990. 368pp. Index. £38.00. ISBN 0 04 445113 x.The lessons of modern war. Vol. 1: The Arab-Israeli conflicts, 1973–1989. By Anthony H. Cordesmanand Abraham R. Wagner. Boulder, CO; Oxford: Westview…
War and peace in the Gulf
Journal Article War and peace in the Gulf: domestic politics and regional relations into the 1990s Get access War and peace in the Gulf: domestic politics and regional relations into the 1990s. By Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Gerd Nonneman. Reading: Ithaca Press. 1991. 287pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 86372 134 6. Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh 1King's College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Aff…
The Gulf conflict, 1990-1991
"The Gulf Conflict provides the most authoritative and comprehensive account to date of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, its expulsion by a coalition of Western and Arab forces seven months later, and the aftermath of the war. Blending compelling narrative history with objective analysis, Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh inquire into the fundamental issues underlying the dispute and probe the strategic calculations of all the participants. As seen …
Andrew J. Hurley, Israel and the New World Order (Santa Barbara, Calif
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The Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Journal Article The Israeli–Palestinian conflict: a documentary record, 1967–1990 Get access The Israeli–Palestinian conflict: a documentary record, 1967–1990. Edited by Yehuda Lukacs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. 549pp. Pb.: £16.95. ISBN 0 521 37597 5. Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh 1King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Pag…
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