Nadim N Rouhana
Biographic Data
| ID | 518238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadim N Rouhana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadim N |
| FAMILY NAME | Rouhana |
| SIGNATURE | ROUHANA N N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 374 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Israel as a ‘Democracy of Masters’: On the politics of an exclusive Jewish homeland
Mowing the Lawn: Lethal Metaphors in Israeli National Security Culture Pre-7 October
This paper examines the metaphor of “Mowing the Lawn” or “Mowing the Grass” that emerged in Israeli political culture around the turn of the century after the Israeli political class developed the conviction that “there is no partner for peace” among the Palestinians. Israel espoused a particular modality of violence against Palestinians, which gradually became a military-political strategy defined as regularly targeting Palestinian leadership, f…
Daring to Imagine: A Future Without Zionism
This article locates the rising extremism in Israel in the dynamics of the ongoing Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine. It introduces the concept of process in settler-colonial settings as the interaction between the settler-colonial structure with its inherent violence and the agency of the colonized with its inevitable resistance. It is within that context that extremism is nourished and grown. The article argues that Zionism is entra…
When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism
Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized interdisciplinarily and comparatively examines the fusion between religious claims and nationalism and studies its political manifestations. State and world politics, when determined or framed by nationalism fused with religious claims, can provoke protracted conflict, i…
When Politics Are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism
Palestinians in Israel: Responses to the Uprising
This chapter examines the influence of the uprising on Arab political beliefs and thinking, and the relative extent of their sentimental identification with, and behavioral involvement in, the intifada. Arabs in Israel had expressed overwhelming support for a Palestinian state in the occupied territories long before the uprising, a fact frequently documented by social researchers. The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories and the polit…
Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel
In this essay we trace the return of history as a process that has become integrated into the transformation of Palestinian political consciousness. We examine how Palestinian history, particularly the history of the dismantlement of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of the majority of Palestinians from their homeland – known in Palestinian historiography as the Nakba – has gradually started to occupy the centre of the present political and cult…
Decolonization as reconciliation: Rethinking the national conflict paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
This paper argues that thinking about reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires a paradigmatic shift in conflict analysis. The international community has approached the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a national conflict between Zionism, as the national movement of the Jewish people, and the Palestinian National Movement. The partition plans proposed from before 1947 until the recent "two-state solution" formula have all been b…
Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-Colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel
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Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State
This volume presents new perspectives on Israeli society, Palestinian society, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Based on historical foundations, it examines how Israel institutionalizes ethnic privileging among its nationally diverse citizens. Arab, Israeli, and American contributors discusses the paradoxes of democratic claims in ethnic states, as well as dynamics of social conflict in the absence of equality. This book advances a new under…
Settler-colonial citizenship: Conceptualizing the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens
This paper seeks to re-examine the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens. It offers an alternative reading, that while acknowledging the procedural connection of citizenship, introduces the settler-colonial structure as a central analytical framework for understanding the origins of this complex relationship and its evolution. We trace, with a broad brush, the various phases of the Palestinian citizens' collective political exp…
Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model ( SCM ) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio‐economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and …
Transitional Justice and the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees
J ewish and D emocratic ””? T he P rice of a N ational S elf -D eception
The current academic and legal campaign to constitutionalize Israel as a state that is both ""Jewish and democratic"" amounts to an act of national self-deception, rooted in the collective inability or unwillingness to accept that discriminatory policies toward the non-Jewish minority contradict democratic processes, on the part of that country's Jewish majority. The author addresses the recent efforts to create an Israeli constitution by the con…
Transitional Justice and the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees
All efforts undertaken so far to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians have failed to seriously address the right of return of the Palestinian refugees. This failure stemmed from a conviction that the question of historical justice in general had to be avoided. Since justice is a subjective construct, it was argued, allowing it to become a subject of negotiation would only perpetuate the conflict. However, the experience of these pe…
Group identity and power asymmetry in reconciliation processes: The Israeli-Palestinian case
This article has 3 main goals. First, it aims to present a conceptualization of reconciliation in national conflict, distinguishing reconciliation from 2 other processes defined in the conflict resolution literature-conflict settlement and conflict resolution-and examining the requirements of reconciliation in the context of power relations and identity-based conflicts. Second, it discusses factors that influence reconciliation and examines patte…
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies …
Citizenship and the parliamentary politics of minorities in ethnic states: The Palestinian citizens of Israel
Equal citizenship in multi‐ethnic states entails that citizens, regardless of ethnic affiliation, have equal influence on the political system through voting and other forms of political participation. Ethnic states often curb the minority's ability to influence the ethnic political system through a variety of control mechanisms. This article examines how the ethnic Jewish character of Israel places the Palestinian minority in a political predica…
Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities and Conflict
Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State
Questioning ?Ethnic Democracy: A Response to Sammy Smooha
As’ad Ghanem, Nadim Rouhana, Oren Yiftachel, Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha, Israel Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Law and the Transformation of Israeli Society (Fall, 1998), pp. 253-267
Israel and its Arab citizens: Predicaments in the relationship between ethnic states and ethnonational minorities
This paper considers a case study of an ethnic state and examines the fundamental predicament of its relationship with an ethnonational minority. By considering the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens, the paper demonstrates how Israel fits the definition of a constitutional ethnic state, points to its binational reality and its limited democracy, and examines the dilemmas that emanate from the contradiction between its ethni…
Psychological dynamics of intractable ethnonational conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian case
Power asymmetry and goals of unofficial third party intervention in protracted intergroup conflict
Some methods of unofficial intervention in protracted intercommunal conflict have not considered the possible impact of power asymmetry on the dynamics of conflict and on strategies for third-party intervention. Members of conflicting parties in facilitated unofficial meetings may hold divergent views on the primary intervention goals and the appropriate level of conflict analysis within the meetings. These differences may stem directly from the …
Dealing with the Dilemmas Posed by Power Asymmetry in Intergroup Conflict
Some methods of unofficial intervention in protracted intercommunal conflict fail to consider the impact of power asymmetry on the dynamics of conflict and the predictably divergent goals that lower- and higher-power groups seek in unofficial meetings. As a result, third parties face the dilemma of trying to satisfy seemingly irreconcilable goals of the conflicting parties. This article examines asymmetry of goals and the further dilemmas it crea…
Psychological dynamics of intractable ethnonational conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian case
Perception of Power, Threat, and Conflict Intensity in Asymmetric Intergroup Conflict: Arab and Jewish Citizens of Israel
This article examines the perception of power, threat, and conflict intensity in an asymmetric intergroup conflict. About 900 Arab and 900 Jewish high school and university students in Israel were surveyed on their sense of threat and security, the intensity of the conflict between their communities, and power relations between Arabs and Jews who both are citizens of Israel. Scales were developed to measure all three concepts in that setting. Fac…
Group identity and power asymmetry in reconciliation processes: The Israeli-Palestinian case
This article has 3 main goals. First, it aims to present a conceptualization of reconciliation in national conflict, distinguishing reconciliation from 2 other processes defined in the conflict resolution literature-conflict settlement and conflict resolution-and examining the requirements of reconciliation in the context of power relations and identity-based conflicts. Second, it discusses factors that influence reconciliation and examines patte…
Power asymmetry and goals of unofficial third party intervention in protracted intergroup conflict
Some methods of unofficial intervention in protracted intercommunal conflict have not considered the possible impact of power asymmetry on the dynamics of conflict and on strategies for third-party intervention. Members of conflicting parties in facilitated unofficial meetings may hold divergent views on the primary intervention goals and the appropriate level of conflict analysis within the meetings. These differences may stem directly from the …
Questioning ?Ethnic Democracy: A Response to Sammy Smooha
As’ad Ghanem, Nadim Rouhana, Oren Yiftachel, Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha, Israel Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Law and the Transformation of Israeli Society (Fall, 1998), pp. 253-267
The Political Transformation of the Palestinians in Israel: From Acquiescence to Challenge
The role played by the Palestinian citizens of Israel to date, on either side of the divide in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been limited. As Israeli citizens, they have failed to influence Israeli policy vis-a-vis the conflict and they have shied away from significantly shaping the nature of the State of Israel. As Palestinians, they are increasingly showing signs of support for the Palestinian cause, but have made only a limited politic…
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies …
Israel and its Arab citizens: Predicaments in the relationship between ethnic states and ethnonational minorities
This paper considers a case study of an ethnic state and examines the fundamental predicament of its relationship with an ethnonational minority. By considering the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens, the paper demonstrates how Israel fits the definition of a constitutional ethnic state, points to its binational reality and its limited democracy, and examines the dilemmas that emanate from the contradiction between its ethni…
Citizenship and the parliamentary politics of minorities in ethnic states: The Palestinian citizens of Israel
Equal citizenship in multi‐ethnic states entails that citizens, regardless of ethnic affiliation, have equal influence on the political system through voting and other forms of political participation. Ethnic states often curb the minority's ability to influence the ethnic political system through a variety of control mechanisms. This article examines how the ethnic Jewish character of Israel places the Palestinian minority in a political predica…
The Intifada and the Palestinians of Israel: Resurrecting theGreenLine
The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories and the ensuing PLO political program have direct bearing on the political future of the Palestinians in Israel. Thus far, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians at large have attempted to define their relationships to Israel's Arab community, which both have tended to view as a marginal segment of their respective societies. But for the Palestinians of Israel themselves, the nature of these…
Promoting Joint Thinking in International Conflicts: An Israeli‐Palestinian Continuing Workshop
This article reviews the development of interactive problem solving as an unofficial approach to the resolution of international conflicts, especially as we have applied it to the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. The article describes the concept of the continuing workshop, which represents our latest attempt to maximize the political impact of interactive problem solving. After presenting the goals, terms of reference, and ground rules of such work…
Decolonization as reconciliation: Rethinking the national conflict paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
This paper argues that thinking about reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires a paradigmatic shift in conflict analysis. The international community has approached the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a national conflict between Zionism, as the national movement of the Jewish people, and the Palestinian National Movement. The partition plans proposed from before 1947 until the recent "two-state solution" formula have all been b…
The Dynamics of Joint Thinking between Adversaries in International Conflict: Phases of the Continuing Problem-Solving Workshop
This paper presents the continuing problem-solving workshop as an intervention method designed to achieve joint thinking between adversaries in deep-rooted international conflict. It delineates four planned workshop phases and describes their development in an actual continuing workshop between high-ranking Israeli and Palestinian participants. The paper highlights the differences between an intervention model, with predesignated phases, and a na…
J ewish and D emocratic ””? T he P rice of a N ational S elf -D eception
The current academic and legal campaign to constitutionalize Israel as a state that is both ""Jewish and democratic"" amounts to an act of national self-deception, rooted in the collective inability or unwillingness to accept that discriminatory policies toward the non-Jewish minority contradict democratic processes, on the part of that country's Jewish majority. The author addresses the recent efforts to create an Israeli constitution by the con…
The Intifada and the Palestinians of Israel: Resurrecting the Green Line
The Political Transformation of the Palestinians in Israel: From Acquiescence to Challenge
Daring to Imagine: A Future Without Zionism
This article locates the rising extremism in Israel in the dynamics of the ongoing Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine. It introduces the concept of process in settler-colonial settings as the interaction between the settler-colonial structure with its inherent violence and the agency of the colonized with its inevitable resistance. It is within that context that extremism is nourished and grown. The article argues that Zionism is entra…
Young Arabs in Israel: Some Aspects of a Conflicted Social Identity
The social identity of young Arabs in Israel was conceptualized as a set of subidentities which included the national (Arab), civic (Israeli), religious (Moslem, Christian, Druze), familial, and occupational subidentities. Forty male and female Arab high school and university students of three religious denominations were asked to express themselves on the extent to which each of those subidentities was important and attractive to them, and on th…
The Political Transformation of the Palestinians in Israel: From Acquiescence to Challenge
The role played by the Palestinian citizens of Israel to date, on either side of the divide in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been limited. As Israeli citizens, they have failed to influence Israeli policy vis-a-vis the conflict and they have shied away from significantly shaping the nature of the State of Israel. As Palestinians, they are increasingly showing signs of support for the Palestinian cause, but have made only a limited politic…
The Political Transformation of the Palestinians in Israel: From Acquiescence to Challenge
The Intifada and the Palestinians of Israel: Resurrecting the Green Line
The Intifada and the Palestinians of Israel: Resurrecting theGreenLine
The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories and the ensuing PLO political program have direct bearing on the political future of the Palestinians in Israel. Thus far, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians at large have attempted to define their relationships to Israel's Arab community, which both have tended to view as a marginal segment of their respective societies. But for the Palestinians of Israel themselves, the nature of these…
The Democratization of a Traditional Minority in an Ethnic Democracy: The Palestinians in Israel
Promoting Joint Thinking in International Conflicts: An Israeli‐Palestinian Continuing Workshop
This article reviews the development of interactive problem solving as an unofficial approach to the resolution of international conflicts, especially as we have applied it to the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. The article describes the concept of the continuing workshop, which represents our latest attempt to maximize the political impact of interactive problem solving. After presenting the goals, terms of reference, and ground rules of such work…
The Dynamics of Joint Thinking between Adversaries in International Conflict: Phases of the Continuing Problem-Solving Workshop
This paper presents the continuing problem-solving workshop as an intervention method designed to achieve joint thinking between adversaries in deep-rooted international conflict. It delineates four planned workshop phases and describes their development in an actual continuing workshop between high-ranking Israeli and Palestinian participants. The paper highlights the differences between an intervention model, with predesignated phases, and a na…
Perception of Power, Threat, and Conflict Intensity in Asymmetric Intergroup Conflict: Arab and Jewish Citizens of Israel
This article examines the perception of power, threat, and conflict intensity in an asymmetric intergroup conflict. About 900 Arab and 900 Jewish high school and university students in Israel were surveyed on their sense of threat and security, the intensity of the conflict between their communities, and power relations between Arabs and Jews who both are citizens of Israel. Scales were developed to measure all three concepts in that setting. Fac…
Dealing with the Dilemmas Posed by Power Asymmetry in Intergroup Conflict
Some methods of unofficial intervention in protracted intercommunal conflict fail to consider the impact of power asymmetry on the dynamics of conflict and the predictably divergent goals that lower- and higher-power groups seek in unofficial meetings. As a result, third parties face the dilemma of trying to satisfy seemingly irreconcilable goals of the conflicting parties. This article examines asymmetry of goals and the further dilemmas it crea…
Power asymmetry and goals of unofficial third party intervention in protracted intergroup conflict
Some methods of unofficial intervention in protracted intercommunal conflict have not considered the possible impact of power asymmetry on the dynamics of conflict and on strategies for third-party intervention. Members of conflicting parties in facilitated unofficial meetings may hold divergent views on the primary intervention goals and the appropriate level of conflict analysis within the meetings. These differences may stem directly from the …
Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State
Questioning ?Ethnic Democracy: A Response to Sammy Smooha
As’ad Ghanem, Nadim Rouhana, Oren Yiftachel, Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha, Israel Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, Law and the Transformation of Israeli Society (Fall, 1998), pp. 253-267
Israel and its Arab citizens: Predicaments in the relationship between ethnic states and ethnonational minorities
This paper considers a case study of an ethnic state and examines the fundamental predicament of its relationship with an ethnonational minority. By considering the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens, the paper demonstrates how Israel fits the definition of a constitutional ethnic state, points to its binational reality and its limited democracy, and examines the dilemmas that emanate from the contradiction between its ethni…
Psychological dynamics of intractable ethnonational conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian case
Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities and Conflict
Citizenship and the parliamentary politics of minorities in ethnic states: The Palestinian citizens of Israel
Equal citizenship in multi‐ethnic states entails that citizens, regardless of ethnic affiliation, have equal influence on the political system through voting and other forms of political participation. Ethnic states often curb the minority's ability to influence the ethnic political system through a variety of control mechanisms. This article examines how the ethnic Jewish character of Israel places the Palestinian minority in a political predica…
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies …
Transitional Justice and the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees
All efforts undertaken so far to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians have failed to seriously address the right of return of the Palestinian refugees. This failure stemmed from a conviction that the question of historical justice in general had to be avoided. Since justice is a subjective construct, it was argued, allowing it to become a subject of negotiation would only perpetuate the conflict. However, the experience of these pe…
Group identity and power asymmetry in reconciliation processes: The Israeli-Palestinian case
This article has 3 main goals. First, it aims to present a conceptualization of reconciliation in national conflict, distinguishing reconciliation from 2 other processes defined in the conflict resolution literature-conflict settlement and conflict resolution-and examining the requirements of reconciliation in the context of power relations and identity-based conflicts. Second, it discusses factors that influence reconciliation and examines patte…
J ewish and D emocratic ””? T he P rice of a N ational S elf -D eception
The current academic and legal campaign to constitutionalize Israel as a state that is both ""Jewish and democratic"" amounts to an act of national self-deception, rooted in the collective inability or unwillingness to accept that discriminatory policies toward the non-Jewish minority contradict democratic processes, on the part of that country's Jewish majority. The author addresses the recent efforts to create an Israeli constitution by the con…
Transitional Justice and the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees
Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model ( SCM ) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio‐economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and …
Settler-colonial citizenship: Conceptualizing the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens
This paper seeks to re-examine the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens. It offers an alternative reading, that while acknowledging the procedural connection of citizenship, introduces the settler-colonial structure as a central analytical framework for understanding the origins of this complex relationship and its evolution. We trace, with a broad brush, the various phases of the Palestinian citizens' collective political exp…
Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-Colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel
A summary 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.
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