Yitzhak Shichor
Biographic Data
| ID | 755872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yitzhak Shichor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yitzhak |
| FAMILY NAME | Shichor |
| SIGNATURE | SHICHOR Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Peaceful Reunification or Else: Untangling the China-Taiwan Gordian Knot
Out of Proportion: Israel's Paradox In China's Middle Eastern Policy
After Hamas's brutal October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, China appeared to side with the Islamists, as if its relationship with the Jewish state had deteriorated beyond repair. This was accompanied by an officially inspired wave of antisemitism and votes against Israel at the United Nations. Within a few months, however, the Chinese began to tone down their response and to repair what has become an important component in their Middle East policy. …
Prophecy: Ben-Gurion and the Ascendency of China
Unlike many, or most, Western leaders, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister and primary founder, had become interested in Asia, and especially India and later even more in China, since the 1930s. He predicted the disintegration of colonialism, the liberation of Asian countries, and the emergence of China not only as one of the world’s great powers, but as the greatest. From the very beginning, he criticized Washington’s support of the …
Elephant in the China Shop: The Uyghur Pyrrhic Victory
Mostly unknown to the public, the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority of some 12 million in northwest China, have gained international prominence since the 2010s. Their Diaspora, headed by the World Uyghur Congress, has managed to convince the West that Beijing’s persecution of their kin in Xinjiang amounts to “genocide”, prompting condemnations, sanctions and boycotts on China. Not denying Chinese oppression of Uyghurs, I argue that the “genocide” claims…
Separation of State and Religion: The East Asian Model and The Middle East
East Asia (the post-Confucian countries) is by far more advanced than the Middle East, primarily in terms of better education, leadership quality and population control – for which East Asia ranks at the top of the world’s list (and the Middle East at the bottom). In an attempt to trace the origins of this gap, this article concentrates on one issue: the separation between state and religion. Whereas East Asia is the most irreligious region in th…
Recognition: China’s Long March to Global Integration
This paper provides a framework for China’s gradual global integration. From historical exclusion, China became initially and partly incorporated to the world in the 1950s and 1960s while ignored by most of the countries. A quantitative breakthrough in the 1970s has led to a universal recognition, still formal and restricted throughout the 1980s and 1990s, making China a great power by the early twenty-first century. China’s rise and gradual inte…
Handling China’s Internal Security: Division of Labor among Armed Forces in Xinjiang
It is widely assumed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) plays a dominant role in handling internal security. Yet a comparative study shows that regular armed forces prefer to avoid becoming involved in domestic conflicts—and China’s PLA is no exception. Concentrating on Uyghur unrest, the article shows that most of the burden of maintaining internal security in China falls on para-military troops, primarily on the People’s Armed Poli…
China’s Belt and Road Initiative Revisited: Challenges and Ways Forward
Compared with other Chinese-proposed multilateral institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not yet fully institutionalized. Still, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by many Asian and African countries, though less so by Western ones, Japan, and Russia. This is not only because of the expected economic benefits being Asian- and Af…
Artificial resuscitation: Beijing’s manipulation to pan-Turkism
Pan-Turkism emerged in the middle of the 19th century as an attempt to uniting all Turkic people along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean to China. After the ascent of modern Turkey under Mustafa Kemal as well as the Soviet incorporation of Central Asia, pan-Turkism had practically withered – although apparently not as an ideology. Indeed, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the Central Asia republics have provid…
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier, written by David Brophy
Pawns in Central Asia’s Playground: Uyghurs Between Moscow and Beijing
Connected Vessels: West Asia and East Asia in China's Geopolitics
East Asia and West Asia (the Middle East)2 are usually treated in the academic literature as two distinct and separate issues in Chinese foreign policy. Studies of China's policy in East Asia hardly mention the Middle East and studies of the Middle East hardly mention East Asia. In fact, these two regions are not simply interconnected in China's geopolitical outlook but provide clues to understanding Beijing's foreign policy toward each of them -…
Middle Powers and the Rise of China
Nuisance Value: Uyghur activism in Germany and Beijing–Berlin relations
While a small number of Uyghur communities had begun to settle in Germany already in the 1950s and 1960s, since the 1990s they have chosen Munich as their center of national and political activism in Europe and worldwide. By that time the Chinese had begun to apply pressure on the German government to restrict Uyghur activities and to monitor and intimidate them and their German supporters, also by using spies and collaborators. As a democratic c…
Fundamentally Unacceptable yet Occasionally Unavoidable: China’s Options on External Interference in the Middle East
China’s ‘non-interference’ policy is not a new phenomenon. It originates in pre-modern Chinese history when the Empire had been isolated from the rest of the world, as well as in the Mao era when the Chinese–even if they had the will to interfere–did not have the capabilities. Post-Mao and post-Cold War, China has the capabilities but not yet the will to become more involved. Still, economic prosperity and growing political prominence have forced…
Influence sans ingérence: Les relations de la Chine avec le Soudan
Si nous avons beaucoup progresse ces dernieres annees dans l’enseignement du management proprement dit, notamment grâce a la qualification des professeurs, il est probable que nous ayons encore beaucoup d’efforts a faire dans la reflexion comme dans la mise en place des conditions reellement propices a l’apprentissage du management. Ce qui n’est pas tout a fait la meme question. C’est en ce sens que le renouveau de la formation au management rest…
China's Upsurge: Implications for the Middle East
Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang
2005). Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 119-136
Virtual Transnationalism: Uygur Communities in Europe and the Quest for Eastern Turkestan Independence
Israel's military transfers to China and Taiwan
Criticism of Israeli military-technology transfers to China is largely unfounded. The sales actually enjoyed tacit American support when they started in the 1970s (to Taiwan) and 1980s (to China). Washington's recent accusations of illegal transfers of US technologies reflect changed political considerations more than actual facts. Military sales to China have helped mitigate the economic crisis facing Israel's defence-industrial complex, have pr…
China's Economic Relations with the Middle East: New Dimensions
Hide and seek: Sino‐Israeli relations in perspective
(1994). Hide and seek: Sino‐Israeli relations in perspective. Israel Affairs: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 188-208
China and the Middle East since Tiananmen
By the late 1980s, the Middle East had become a solid base of operations for China's foreign policy in political, economic, and military terms. Put to the test of the Tiananmen massacre, the reliability of this base remained unshaken while China was trying to break through the Western-imposed isolation, paving the way for an eventual international rehabilitation. This was made possible following Iraq's violent annexation of Kuwait. China used the…
China's Defence in a Changing World
China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy
Research Article| March 01 1991 China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy Yitzhak Shichor Yitzhak Shichor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (3): 255–269. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645244 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
Fundamentally Unacceptable yet Occasionally Unavoidable: China’s Options on External Interference in the Middle East
China’s ‘non-interference’ policy is not a new phenomenon. It originates in pre-modern Chinese history when the Empire had been isolated from the rest of the world, as well as in the Mao era when the Chinese–even if they had the will to interfere–did not have the capabilities. Post-Mao and post-Cold War, China has the capabilities but not yet the will to become more involved. Still, economic prosperity and growing political prominence have forced…
Hide and seek: Sino‐Israeli relations in perspective
(1994). Hide and seek: Sino‐Israeli relations in perspective. Israel Affairs: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 188-208
China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy
Research Article| March 01 1991 China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy Yitzhak Shichor Yitzhak Shichor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (3): 255–269. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645244 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang
2005). Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 119-136
China and the Middle East since Tiananmen
By the late 1980s, the Middle East had become a solid base of operations for China's foreign policy in political, economic, and military terms. Put to the test of the Tiananmen massacre, the reliability of this base remained unshaken while China was trying to break through the Western-imposed isolation, paving the way for an eventual international rehabilitation. This was made possible following Iraq's violent annexation of Kuwait. China used the…
China’s Belt and Road Initiative Revisited: Challenges and Ways Forward
Compared with other Chinese-proposed multilateral institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not yet fully institutionalized. Still, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by many Asian and African countries, though less so by Western ones, Japan, and Russia. This is not only because of the expected economic benefits being Asian- and Af…
China's Upsurge: Implications for the Middle East
Unfolded arms: Beijing's recent military sales offensive
(1988). Unfolded arms: Beijing's recent military sales offensive. The Pacific Review: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 320-330
China's Economic Relations with the Middle East: New Dimensions
Recognition: China’s Long March to Global Integration
This paper provides a framework for China’s gradual global integration. From historical exclusion, China became initially and partly incorporated to the world in the 1950s and 1960s while ignored by most of the countries. A quantitative breakthrough in the 1970s has led to a universal recognition, still formal and restricted throughout the 1980s and 1990s, making China a great power by the early twenty-first century. China’s rise and gradual inte…
Artificial resuscitation: Beijing’s manipulation to pan-Turkism
Pan-Turkism emerged in the middle of the 19th century as an attempt to uniting all Turkic people along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean to China. After the ascent of modern Turkey under Mustafa Kemal as well as the Soviet incorporation of Central Asia, pan-Turkism had practically withered – although apparently not as an ideology. Indeed, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the Central Asia republics have provid…
Pawns in Central Asia’s Playground: Uyghurs Between Moscow and Beijing
Israel's military transfers to China and Taiwan
Criticism of Israeli military-technology transfers to China is largely unfounded. The sales actually enjoyed tacit American support when they started in the 1970s (to Taiwan) and 1980s (to China). Washington's recent accusations of illegal transfers of US technologies reflect changed political considerations more than actual facts. Military sales to China have helped mitigate the economic crisis facing Israel's defence-industrial complex, have pr…
The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy, 1949–1977
Within the growing literature on China's international behaviour, China's Middle Eastern policy has been somewhat neglected and misinterpreted. It has been assumed that the Middle East played a rather marginal role in Chinese strategic calculations; yet at times the Chinese have been portrayed as a disruptive and subversive force in this area. This volume attempts to correct both views by providing a comprehensive analysis of China's Middle Easte…
The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy, 1949-1977
"Just Stand" and "Just Struggle": China and the Peace Process in the Middle East
In Search of Alternatives: China's Middle East Policy After Sadat
Defending China and China and the arms trade
Journal Article Defending China and China and the arms trade Get access Defending China. By Gerald Segal. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1985. 264pp. Index. £17.50. ISBN 0 19 827470 X.China and the arms trade. By Anne Gilks and Gerald Segal. London: Croom Helm. 1985. 229pp. Index. £22⋅50. ISBN 0 7099 3362 2. Yitzhak Shichor Yitzhak Shichor 1The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Unfolded arms: Beijing's recent military sales offensive
(1988). Unfolded arms: Beijing's recent military sales offensive. The Pacific Review: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 320-330
China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy
Research Article| March 01 1991 China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy Yitzhak Shichor Yitzhak Shichor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (3): 255–269. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645244 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
China and the Middle East since Tiananmen
By the late 1980s, the Middle East had become a solid base of operations for China's foreign policy in political, economic, and military terms. Put to the test of the Tiananmen massacre, the reliability of this base remained unshaken while China was trying to break through the Western-imposed isolation, paving the way for an eventual international rehabilitation. This was made possible following Iraq's violent annexation of Kuwait. China used the…
China's Defence in a Changing World
Hide and seek: Sino‐Israeli relations in perspective
(1994). Hide and seek: Sino‐Israeli relations in perspective. Israel Affairs: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 188-208
Israel's military transfers to China and Taiwan
Criticism of Israeli military-technology transfers to China is largely unfounded. The sales actually enjoyed tacit American support when they started in the 1970s (to Taiwan) and 1980s (to China). Washington's recent accusations of illegal transfers of US technologies reflect changed political considerations more than actual facts. Military sales to China have helped mitigate the economic crisis facing Israel's defence-industrial complex, have pr…
China's Economic Relations with the Middle East: New Dimensions
Virtual Transnationalism: Uygur Communities in Europe and the Quest for Eastern Turkestan Independence
Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang
2005). Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 119-136
China's Upsurge: Implications for the Middle East
Influence sans ingérence: Les relations de la Chine avec le Soudan
Si nous avons beaucoup progresse ces dernieres annees dans l’enseignement du management proprement dit, notamment grâce a la qualification des professeurs, il est probable que nous ayons encore beaucoup d’efforts a faire dans la reflexion comme dans la mise en place des conditions reellement propices a l’apprentissage du management. Ce qui n’est pas tout a fait la meme question. C’est en ce sens que le renouveau de la formation au management rest…
Nuisance Value: Uyghur activism in Germany and Beijing–Berlin relations
While a small number of Uyghur communities had begun to settle in Germany already in the 1950s and 1960s, since the 1990s they have chosen Munich as their center of national and political activism in Europe and worldwide. By that time the Chinese had begun to apply pressure on the German government to restrict Uyghur activities and to monitor and intimidate them and their German supporters, also by using spies and collaborators. As a democratic c…
Fundamentally Unacceptable yet Occasionally Unavoidable: China’s Options on External Interference in the Middle East
China’s ‘non-interference’ policy is not a new phenomenon. It originates in pre-modern Chinese history when the Empire had been isolated from the rest of the world, as well as in the Mao era when the Chinese–even if they had the will to interfere–did not have the capabilities. Post-Mao and post-Cold War, China has the capabilities but not yet the will to become more involved. Still, economic prosperity and growing political prominence have forced…
Middle Powers and the Rise of China
Pawns in Central Asia’s Playground: Uyghurs Between Moscow and Beijing
Connected Vessels: West Asia and East Asia in China's Geopolitics
East Asia and West Asia (the Middle East)2 are usually treated in the academic literature as two distinct and separate issues in Chinese foreign policy. Studies of China's policy in East Asia hardly mention the Middle East and studies of the Middle East hardly mention East Asia. In fact, these two regions are not simply interconnected in China's geopolitical outlook but provide clues to understanding Beijing's foreign policy toward each of them -…
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier, written by David Brophy
China’s Belt and Road Initiative Revisited: Challenges and Ways Forward
Compared with other Chinese-proposed multilateral institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not yet fully institutionalized. Still, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by many Asian and African countries, though less so by Western ones, Japan, and Russia. This is not only because of the expected economic benefits being Asian- and Af…
Artificial resuscitation: Beijing’s manipulation to pan-Turkism
Pan-Turkism emerged in the middle of the 19th century as an attempt to uniting all Turkic people along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean to China. After the ascent of modern Turkey under Mustafa Kemal as well as the Soviet incorporation of Central Asia, pan-Turkism had practically withered – although apparently not as an ideology. Indeed, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the Central Asia republics have provid…
Handling China’s Internal Security: Division of Labor among Armed Forces in Xinjiang
It is widely assumed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) plays a dominant role in handling internal security. Yet a comparative study shows that regular armed forces prefer to avoid becoming involved in domestic conflicts—and China’s PLA is no exception. Concentrating on Uyghur unrest, the article shows that most of the burden of maintaining internal security in China falls on para-military troops, primarily on the People’s Armed Poli…
Political science (30 works) · China (26 works) · Law (25 works) · Law (19 works) · History (13 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works) · Middle East (10 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (9 works)