Avraham Sela
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avraham Sela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Sela |
| SIGNATURE | SELA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Key Role of Political Prisoners in Transcending Protracted Conflicts
Resolving protracted, asymmetric, and ethno-national conflicts is a notoriously problematic process, and only a handful of such attempts have ended in success. This paper is the first comparative study examining the relevance of “politically motivated violent offenders” (PMVOs) in propelling the shift from a long and bloody armed struggle to a negotiated agreement; indeed, they play an indispensable role in the ratification and the eventual imple…
The Vicissitudes of the Arab States System
This article analyzes the historical performance of the Arab states system—incarnated in the form of the League of Arab States (AL)—from the latter’s foundation in 1945 through its heydays in the late 1970s during which it left a long-term imprint in the form of new norms and rules governing the inter-Arab game, to the more recent state of weakness and marginalization, especially in the wake of the Arab Spring. Contrary to the commonly held views…
The War of 1948
Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition
This book puts the recent Arab revolts in comparative global perspective, as a means to a larger end: to flesh out similarities and to draw parallels between democratic and authoritarian-like regimes. It is based on the notion that while contention in authoritarian settings is different from that in liberal democratic ones, it is not different in kind. Consciously avoiding a teleological-like normative approach and while respecting and being mind…
From Revolution to Political Participation
Social movements often undergo substantial changes as they grow more politically popular and influential, foremost of which is the shift from a single founding/charismatic leader to a hierarchic structure of representative institutions and rational political decision-making. Such changes are said to enable transformation from revolutionary to reformist strategies based on pragmatic calculations. Despite the wealth of studies on the political deve…
The PLO at Fifty
The article offers an overview of the political history of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from its birth to the present. It analyzes the social and political origins of the PLO, the impact on its politics of decades of regional upheavals in the scope and nature of the Arab–Israeli conflict and its ability to function as a national framework of resistance and civilian organizations despite geographical and political obstacles. Given t…
Civil Society, the Military, and National Security
Israel's unilateral withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000 was a unique case in which a public campaign led by a grass-roots movement shaped the government's policymaking on national security. That this withdrawal was decided and implemented despite the IDF's reservation and adherence to the quarter-century old concept of a 'security zone' in south Lebanon, further underlines the unprecedented nature of this case in a state where the military …
Politics, Identity and Peacemaking
Myths and Historiography of the 1948 Palestine War Revisited
Arab and Israeli revisionist historiography has taken the events in the town of Lydda (Lod, al-Lud) during the 1948 Palestine War (Israeli War of Independence) as an example of Israel's premeditated expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs in 1948, coupled with a massacre of civilian Arabs by the Israeli forces. Using newly released documents, the article explains the origins of these claims. It concludes that the expulsion was not pre-meditated but a …
Participation Without Presence
(2002). Participation Without Presence: Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Politics of Negotiated Coexistence. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 1-26
The Perils of Israeli-Syrian Diplomatic Stalemate
The Palestinian Hamas
"Since it emerged as a challenger to the PLO during the Palestinian Intifada, Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) has been associated in the public mind with terror and violence. Now two Israeli experts show that, contrary to its image, Hamas is essentially a social and political movement, providing extensive community services and responding constantly to political realities through bargaining and power brokering. The authors lift the veil o…
The 1973 Arab War coalition
Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The
The PLO and Israel
Introduction - THE MAKING OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT - The PLO and the Politics of Ethnonational Mobilization E.Sahliyeh - The Armed Struggle and Palestinian Nationalism Y.Sayigh - A Study of PLO Peace Initiatives M.Muslih - From Palestinian Liberation Organization to Palestinian Authority: The Territorialization of 'Neopatriarchy' H.Frisch - Policy and Attitude Changes in the PLO M.Hassassian - REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARENAS - The PLO…
The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The “Wailing Wall” Riots (1929) as a Watershed in the Palestine Conflict 1
Transjordan, Israel and the 1948 war
(1992). Transjordan, Israel and the 1948 war: myth, historiography and reality. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 623-688
The Palestinian Hamas
"Since it emerged as a challenger to the PLO during the Palestinian Intifada, Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) has been associated in the public mind with terror and violence. Now two Israeli experts show that, contrary to its image, Hamas is essentially a social and political movement, providing extensive community services and responding constantly to political realities through bargaining and power brokering. The authors lift the veil o…
Civil Society, the Military, and National Security
Israel's unilateral withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000 was a unique case in which a public campaign led by a grass-roots movement shaped the government's policymaking on national security. That this withdrawal was decided and implemented despite the IDF's reservation and adherence to the quarter-century old concept of a 'security zone' in south Lebanon, further underlines the unprecedented nature of this case in a state where the military …
The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Transjordan, Israel and the 1948 war
(1992). Transjordan, Israel and the 1948 war: myth, historiography and reality. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 623-688
Participation Without Presence
(2002). Participation Without Presence: Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Politics of Negotiated Coexistence. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 1-26
The “Wailing Wall” Riots (1929) as a Watershed in the Palestine Conflict 1
From Revolution to Political Participation
Social movements often undergo substantial changes as they grow more politically popular and influential, foremost of which is the shift from a single founding/charismatic leader to a hierarchic structure of representative institutions and rational political decision-making. Such changes are said to enable transformation from revolutionary to reformist strategies based on pragmatic calculations. Despite the wealth of studies on the political deve…
The PLO at Fifty
The article offers an overview of the political history of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from its birth to the present. It analyzes the social and political origins of the PLO, the impact on its politics of decades of regional upheavals in the scope and nature of the Arab–Israeli conflict and its ability to function as a national framework of resistance and civilian organizations despite geographical and political obstacles. Given t…
Politics, Identity and Peacemaking
The PLO and Israel
Introduction - THE MAKING OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT - The PLO and the Politics of Ethnonational Mobilization E.Sahliyeh - The Armed Struggle and Palestinian Nationalism Y.Sayigh - A Study of PLO Peace Initiatives M.Muslih - From Palestinian Liberation Organization to Palestinian Authority: The Territorialization of 'Neopatriarchy' H.Frisch - Policy and Attitude Changes in the PLO M.Hassassian - REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARENAS - The PLO…
Transjordan, Israel and the 1948 war
(1992). Transjordan, Israel and the 1948 war: myth, historiography and reality. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 623-688
The “Wailing Wall” Riots (1929) as a Watershed in the Palestine Conflict 1
Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The
The PLO and Israel
Introduction - THE MAKING OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT - The PLO and the Politics of Ethnonational Mobilization E.Sahliyeh - The Armed Struggle and Palestinian Nationalism Y.Sayigh - A Study of PLO Peace Initiatives M.Muslih - From Palestinian Liberation Organization to Palestinian Authority: The Territorialization of 'Neopatriarchy' H.Frisch - Policy and Attitude Changes in the PLO M.Hassassian - REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARENAS - The PLO…
The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The 1973 Arab War coalition
The Palestinian Hamas
"Since it emerged as a challenger to the PLO during the Palestinian Intifada, Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) has been associated in the public mind with terror and violence. Now two Israeli experts show that, contrary to its image, Hamas is essentially a social and political movement, providing extensive community services and responding constantly to political realities through bargaining and power brokering. The authors lift the veil o…
The Perils of Israeli-Syrian Diplomatic Stalemate
Participation Without Presence
(2002). Participation Without Presence: Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Politics of Negotiated Coexistence. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 1-26
Politics, Identity and Peacemaking
Myths and Historiography of the 1948 Palestine War Revisited
Arab and Israeli revisionist historiography has taken the events in the town of Lydda (Lod, al-Lud) during the 1948 Palestine War (Israeli War of Independence) as an example of Israel's premeditated expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs in 1948, coupled with a massacre of civilian Arabs by the Israeli forces. Using newly released documents, the article explains the origins of these claims. It concludes that the expulsion was not pre-meditated but a …
Civil Society, the Military, and National Security
Israel's unilateral withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000 was a unique case in which a public campaign led by a grass-roots movement shaped the government's policymaking on national security. That this withdrawal was decided and implemented despite the IDF's reservation and adherence to the quarter-century old concept of a 'security zone' in south Lebanon, further underlines the unprecedented nature of this case in a state where the military …
The PLO at Fifty
The article offers an overview of the political history of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from its birth to the present. It analyzes the social and political origins of the PLO, the impact on its politics of decades of regional upheavals in the scope and nature of the Arab–Israeli conflict and its ability to function as a national framework of resistance and civilian organizations despite geographical and political obstacles. Given t…
From Revolution to Political Participation
Social movements often undergo substantial changes as they grow more politically popular and influential, foremost of which is the shift from a single founding/charismatic leader to a hierarchic structure of representative institutions and rational political decision-making. Such changes are said to enable transformation from revolutionary to reformist strategies based on pragmatic calculations. Despite the wealth of studies on the political deve…
The War of 1948
Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition
This book puts the recent Arab revolts in comparative global perspective, as a means to a larger end: to flesh out similarities and to draw parallels between democratic and authoritarian-like regimes. It is based on the notion that while contention in authoritarian settings is different from that in liberal democratic ones, it is not different in kind. Consciously avoiding a teleological-like normative approach and while respecting and being mind…
The Vicissitudes of the Arab States System
This article analyzes the historical performance of the Arab states system—incarnated in the form of the League of Arab States (AL)—from the latter’s foundation in 1945 through its heydays in the late 1970s during which it left a long-term imprint in the form of new norms and rules governing the inter-Arab game, to the more recent state of weakness and marginalization, especially in the wake of the Arab Spring. Contrary to the commonly held views…
The Key Role of Political Prisoners in Transcending Protracted Conflicts
Resolving protracted, asymmetric, and ethno-national conflicts is a notoriously problematic process, and only a handful of such attempts have ended in success. This paper is the first comparative study examining the relevance of “politically motivated violent offenders” (PMVOs) in propelling the shift from a long and bloody armed struggle to a negotiated agreement; indeed, they play an indispensable role in the ratification and the eventual imple…
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