Gad Barzilai
Biographic Data
| ID | 380678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gad Barzilai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gad |
| FAMILY NAME | Barzilai |
| SIGNATURE | BARZILAI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Judicial Review in a Defective Democracy: Judicial Nominations and Judicial Review in Constitutional Courts
Governments reform the process of nominating judges to constitutional courts, seeking to reduce the courts’ involvement in state affairs. Since 2008, reformers have tried to appoint judges who would be more judicially restrained. We examine the rulings of judges on Israel’s Supreme Court in its capacity as Israel’s High Court of Justice on the Israeli executive’s decisions. We show that reformers did achieve their goal of reducing High Court of J…
The Gulf Crisis and its Global Aftermath
The crisis in the Persian Gulf of 1990-91 has affected more than just the regional powers in the area. Rippling outward, its military, economic and political effects are still being felt throughout the international political system; testing American steadfastness in the face of Saddam Hussein's political survival, the EC's ability to form a united front on foreign policy issues and the effectiveness of the United Nations in confronting internati…
Analysis of Israelis [Jews and Arab–Palestinians]: Exploring law in society and society in law
Attributing a great deal of attention to global and local knowledge, this paper is focused on law and society scholarship that has been published by Israelis, both Jewish and Arab-Palestinians. It attempts to unveil and to map some of the major issues that have characterised the scholarly debates and intellectual discourse, primarily critical questions on law and political power, the nation-state, legal rights discourse and equality. More specifi…
Forum
I argue here that Israel's 'basic structure' (i.e., the main economic, social, and political institutions), to use John Rawls's phrase, subjects the Palestinian citizens to a process of ghettoization that relegates them to a separate and unequal status.This basic structure is particularly unjust, as it does not provide these citizens with the minimal conditions of a decent life.The state not only fails to rectify this injustice but is actively im…
Law, Politics, Justice, and Society: Israel in a Comparative Context
Law is an important ingredient in politics, and politics is an important layer in law. Law is always being shaped, formed, articulated, and enforced in the context of socio-political power relations. This is true regarding any political regime, and it is also true in Israel. While the number of publications on law and society in Israel is vast and multi-disciplinary, edited volumes on law, politics, and society in Israel are relatively rare. Henc…
Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland
Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. By Guy Ben-Porat. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. 327p. $19.77. Guy Ben-Porat's valuable book argues that contemporary globalization may transform conflicts and their resolution since it generates hegemonic crisis and fosters neoliberal interests among international and local players. Hence, interactions between localities and transnatio…
Cultured Technology: The Internet and Religious Fundamentalism
In this article we identify four principal dimensions of religious fundamentalism as they interact with the Internet: hierarchy, patriarchy, discipline, and seclusion. We also develop the concept of cultured technology, and analyze the ways communities reshape a technology and make it a part of their culture, while at the same time changing their customary ways of life and unwritten laws to adapt to it. Later, we give examples for our theoretical…
Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Culture of Patriarchy in Law: Violence from Antiquity to Modernity
Stalking is a social behavior of repeatedly watching and imposing surveillance on the victim in ways that intimidate her autonomy. On April 3, 2001 a jury in Miami, Florida, US, had found a 46-years-old man guilty of stalking the tennis superstar Martina Hingis. He sent her flowers, faxes, letters, and then traveled to her home in Zurich, Switzerland, to tell her how much he is emotionally attached to her, after he had seen Ms. Hingis in the TV. …
Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
"Relying on theories of politics, law, and society, Barzilai offers a 'critical communitarian' solution that views non-ruling communities as cultural foci of mobilization. His thoughtful analysis contributes to key theoretical discussions of the relationship between communitarianism and national minorities: feminism and religious fundamentalism. This insightful book explores the continuum of litigation to violence in the broader context of politi…
War, Democracy, and Internal Conflict: Israel in a Comparative Perspective
Many scholars of international relations still aim to conceptualize the phenomenon of war as a predominantly international event. This article shifts the analytical outlook. It looks at wars from the perspective of domestic politics, where war is perceived not only as a result of internal propensities but also as a cause of internal upheavals, dissent, or consent. How is internal political order in democracies influenced by wars? The relevant dil…
Courts as hegemonic institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective
(1998). Courts as hegemonic institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective. Israel Affairs: Vol. 5, Israel: The Dyanamics of Change and Continuity, pp. 15-33
Governmental Lawyering in the Political Sphere: Advocating the Leviathan
THE STUDY OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL and public prosecutors as political institutions has long been neglected. It is the judicial elite, courts, and legal culture which have been the main focus for scholarly attention. Attorneys general and public prosecutors have had a notable effect on the work of judiciaries; they have been an important pillar in the co-optation of the administration, the judiciary, and the legislature, and they have significantly p…
Meron Benvenisti, Intimate Enemies, Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 1995). Pp. 273
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Between the rule of law and the laws of the ruler: The Supreme Court in Israeli legal culture
Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East
The Use of Force: Israeli Public Opinion on Military Options
This article analyzes Israeli attitudes toward the use of force over the period from 1988 to 1994. Based on nine public opinion polls of Israel's Jewish population, it explores public trends on three dimensions of force use-conventional war, Intifada, and terrorism-and contributes new data to the theoretical and empirical debate over the stability and rationality of public opinion. Following the presentation of an aggregate analysis of general pu…
Israel and Future Borders: Assessment of a Dynamic Process
This article deals with the question of determining a future Israeli-Palestinian border within the context of an originally developed analytical framework. Following the presentation of a previous model (Tägil et al., 1977, 1984), the authors offer a greatly modified and more detailed framework for the analysis of border determination. The modified framework emphasizes factors such as national ethos and two alternative national `imperatives' (ter…
The middle east power balance: Israels attempts to understand changes in Soviet‐Arab relations
Israeli Leadership and Public Attitudes Toward Federal Solutions for the Arab-Israeli Conflict Before and After Desert Storm
This first empirical investigation of support for federative solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict among the Jewish political leadership and general public of Israel suggests that, despite the Palestinian Intifada and the Gulf War, there is a potential basis within Israel for federal approaches to intercommunal and interstate conflict resolution. Both leaders and the public are dissatisfied with the status quo. Political leaders are more support…
Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads: A Crisis of Non-governability
THROUGHOUT THIS CENTURY, THE STRUGGLE FOR AND consolidation of Jewish territorial sovereignty in the ancient Land of Israel has been characterized by two complementary processes: waves of Jewish immigration from throughout the diaspora, and a succession of violent conflicts with Israel's Arab neighbours. Both of those processes were at work during 1990 — 91 when Israel became reluctantly involved in the Gulf war while also having to cope with an …
A Jewish democracy at war: Attitudes of secular Jewish political parties in Israel toward the question of war (1949–1988)
This article's main purpose is to illuminate, analyze, and explain, for the first time, the diversity of attitudes that prevailed in Israel between 1949 and 1988 toward the question of war. The Israeli case is particularly interesting because of the fact that the Arab‐Palestinian‐Israeli conflict continued throughout that entire period. The article's basic contention is that Israel is characterized by a fundamental rift, in the form of an ingrain…
Cultured Technology: The Internet and Religious Fundamentalism
In this article we identify four principal dimensions of religious fundamentalism as they interact with the Internet: hierarchy, patriarchy, discipline, and seclusion. We also develop the concept of cultured technology, and analyze the ways communities reshape a technology and make it a part of their culture, while at the same time changing their customary ways of life and unwritten laws to adapt to it. Later, we give examples for our theoretical…
Courts as hegemonic institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective
(1998). Courts as hegemonic institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective. Israel Affairs: Vol. 5, Israel: The Dyanamics of Change and Continuity, pp. 15-33
Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland
Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. By Guy Ben-Porat. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. 327p. $19.77. Guy Ben-Porat's valuable book argues that contemporary globalization may transform conflicts and their resolution since it generates hegemonic crisis and fosters neoliberal interests among international and local players. Hence, interactions between localities and transnatio…
Israel and Future Borders: Assessment of a Dynamic Process
This article deals with the question of determining a future Israeli-Palestinian border within the context of an originally developed analytical framework. Following the presentation of a previous model (Tägil et al., 1977, 1984), the authors offer a greatly modified and more detailed framework for the analysis of border determination. The modified framework emphasizes factors such as national ethos and two alternative national `imperatives' (ter…
War, Democracy, and Internal Conflict: Israel in a Comparative Perspective
Many scholars of international relations still aim to conceptualize the phenomenon of war as a predominantly international event. This article shifts the analytical outlook. It looks at wars from the perspective of domestic politics, where war is perceived not only as a result of internal propensities but also as a cause of internal upheavals, dissent, or consent. How is internal political order in democracies influenced by wars? The relevant dil…
The Use of Force: Israeli Public Opinion on Military Options
This article analyzes Israeli attitudes toward the use of force over the period from 1988 to 1994. Based on nine public opinion polls of Israel's Jewish population, it explores public trends on three dimensions of force use-conventional war, Intifada, and terrorism-and contributes new data to the theoretical and empirical debate over the stability and rationality of public opinion. Following the presentation of an aggregate analysis of general pu…
Israeli Leadership and Public Attitudes Toward Federal Solutions for the Arab-Israeli Conflict Before and After Desert Storm
This first empirical investigation of support for federative solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict among the Jewish political leadership and general public of Israel suggests that, despite the Palestinian Intifada and the Gulf War, there is a potential basis within Israel for federal approaches to intercommunal and interstate conflict resolution. Both leaders and the public are dissatisfied with the status quo. Political leaders are more support…
Between the rule of law and the laws of the ruler: The Supreme Court in Israeli legal culture
Governmental Lawyering in the Political Sphere: Advocating the Leviathan
THE STUDY OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL and public prosecutors as political institutions has long been neglected. It is the judicial elite, courts, and legal culture which have been the main focus for scholarly attention. Attorneys general and public prosecutors have had a notable effect on the work of judiciaries; they have been an important pillar in the co-optation of the administration, the judiciary, and the legislature, and they have significantly p…
A Jewish democracy at war: Attitudes of secular Jewish political parties in Israel toward the question of war (1949–1988)
This article's main purpose is to illuminate, analyze, and explain, for the first time, the diversity of attitudes that prevailed in Israel between 1949 and 1988 toward the question of war. The Israeli case is particularly interesting because of the fact that the Arab‐Palestinian‐Israeli conflict continued throughout that entire period. The article's basic contention is that Israel is characterized by a fundamental rift, in the form of an ingrain…
The middle east power balance: Israels attempts to understand changes in Soviet‐Arab relations
Israeli Leadership and Public Attitudes Toward Federal Solutions for the Arab-Israeli Conflict Before and After Desert Storm
This first empirical investigation of support for federative solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict among the Jewish political leadership and general public of Israel suggests that, despite the Palestinian Intifada and the Gulf War, there is a potential basis within Israel for federal approaches to intercommunal and interstate conflict resolution. Both leaders and the public are dissatisfied with the status quo. Political leaders are more support…
Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads: A Crisis of Non-governability
THROUGHOUT THIS CENTURY, THE STRUGGLE FOR AND consolidation of Jewish territorial sovereignty in the ancient Land of Israel has been characterized by two complementary processes: waves of Jewish immigration from throughout the diaspora, and a succession of violent conflicts with Israel's Arab neighbours. Both of those processes were at work during 1990 — 91 when Israel became reluctantly involved in the Gulf war while also having to cope with an …
Israel and Future Borders: Assessment of a Dynamic Process
This article deals with the question of determining a future Israeli-Palestinian border within the context of an originally developed analytical framework. Following the presentation of a previous model (Tägil et al., 1977, 1984), the authors offer a greatly modified and more detailed framework for the analysis of border determination. The modified framework emphasizes factors such as national ethos and two alternative national `imperatives' (ter…
Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East
The Use of Force: Israeli Public Opinion on Military Options
This article analyzes Israeli attitudes toward the use of force over the period from 1988 to 1994. Based on nine public opinion polls of Israel's Jewish population, it explores public trends on three dimensions of force use-conventional war, Intifada, and terrorism-and contributes new data to the theoretical and empirical debate over the stability and rationality of public opinion. Following the presentation of an aggregate analysis of general pu…
Meron Benvenisti, Intimate Enemies, Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (Berkeley: (University of California Press, 1995). Pp. 273
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Between the rule of law and the laws of the ruler: The Supreme Court in Israeli legal culture
Courts as hegemonic institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective
(1998). Courts as hegemonic institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a comparative perspective. Israel Affairs: Vol. 5, Israel: The Dyanamics of Change and Continuity, pp. 15-33
Governmental Lawyering in the Political Sphere: Advocating the Leviathan
THE STUDY OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL and public prosecutors as political institutions has long been neglected. It is the judicial elite, courts, and legal culture which have been the main focus for scholarly attention. Attorneys general and public prosecutors have had a notable effect on the work of judiciaries; they have been an important pillar in the co-optation of the administration, the judiciary, and the legislature, and they have significantly p…
War, Democracy, and Internal Conflict: Israel in a Comparative Perspective
Many scholars of international relations still aim to conceptualize the phenomenon of war as a predominantly international event. This article shifts the analytical outlook. It looks at wars from the perspective of domestic politics, where war is perceived not only as a result of internal propensities but also as a cause of internal upheavals, dissent, or consent. How is internal political order in democracies influenced by wars? The relevant dil…
Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
"Relying on theories of politics, law, and society, Barzilai offers a 'critical communitarian' solution that views non-ruling communities as cultural foci of mobilization. His thoughtful analysis contributes to key theoretical discussions of the relationship between communitarianism and national minorities: feminism and religious fundamentalism. This insightful book explores the continuum of litigation to violence in the broader context of politi…
Culture of Patriarchy in Law: Violence from Antiquity to Modernity
Stalking is a social behavior of repeatedly watching and imposing surveillance on the victim in ways that intimidate her autonomy. On April 3, 2001 a jury in Miami, Florida, US, had found a 46-years-old man guilty of stalking the tennis superstar Martina Hingis. He sent her flowers, faxes, letters, and then traveled to her home in Zurich, Switzerland, to tell her how much he is emotionally attached to her, after he had seen Ms. Hingis in the TV. …
Cultured Technology: The Internet and Religious Fundamentalism
In this article we identify four principal dimensions of religious fundamentalism as they interact with the Internet: hierarchy, patriarchy, discipline, and seclusion. We also develop the concept of cultured technology, and analyze the ways communities reshape a technology and make it a part of their culture, while at the same time changing their customary ways of life and unwritten laws to adapt to it. Later, we give examples for our theoretical…
Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland
Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. By Guy Ben-Porat. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. 327p. $19.77. Guy Ben-Porat's valuable book argues that contemporary globalization may transform conflicts and their resolution since it generates hegemonic crisis and fosters neoliberal interests among international and local players. Hence, interactions between localities and transnatio…
Forum
I argue here that Israel's 'basic structure' (i.e., the main economic, social, and political institutions), to use John Rawls's phrase, subjects the Palestinian citizens to a process of ghettoization that relegates them to a separate and unequal status.This basic structure is particularly unjust, as it does not provide these citizens with the minimal conditions of a decent life.The state not only fails to rectify this injustice but is actively im…
Law, Politics, Justice, and Society: Israel in a Comparative Context
Law is an important ingredient in politics, and politics is an important layer in law. Law is always being shaped, formed, articulated, and enforced in the context of socio-political power relations. This is true regarding any political regime, and it is also true in Israel. While the number of publications on law and society in Israel is vast and multi-disciplinary, edited volumes on law, politics, and society in Israel are relatively rare. Henc…
Analysis of Israelis [Jews and Arab–Palestinians]: Exploring law in society and society in law
Attributing a great deal of attention to global and local knowledge, this paper is focused on law and society scholarship that has been published by Israelis, both Jewish and Arab-Palestinians. It attempts to unveil and to map some of the major issues that have characterised the scholarly debates and intellectual discourse, primarily critical questions on law and political power, the nation-state, legal rights discourse and equality. More specifi…
The Gulf Crisis and its Global Aftermath
The crisis in the Persian Gulf of 1990-91 has affected more than just the regional powers in the area. Rippling outward, its military, economic and political effects are still being felt throughout the international political system; testing American steadfastness in the face of Saddam Hussein's political survival, the EC's ability to form a united front on foreign policy issues and the effectiveness of the United Nations in confronting internati…
Judicial Review in a Defective Democracy: Judicial Nominations and Judicial Review in Constitutional Courts
Governments reform the process of nominating judges to constitutional courts, seeking to reduce the courts’ involvement in state affairs. Since 2008, reformers have tried to appoint judges who would be more judicially restrained. We examine the rulings of judges on Israel’s Supreme Court in its capacity as Israel’s High Court of Justice on the Israeli executive’s decisions. We show that reformers did achieve their goal of reducing High Court of J…
Political science (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (11 works) · History (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · History (5 works)