Robert O Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 991597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert O Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | O Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN R O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US–Israel Relationship
There has long been a debate about whether the central factor in US–Israel relations are strategic ties or whether common values are at the heart of the relationship. David Tal comes down squarely on the side of values in this debate in a very well-researched and well-written book. While there is a lot of valuable information in the book, particularly in Tal’s description of the very extensive web of links that tie the two countries together; in …
Moscow and Jerusalem: A troubled 75-year relationship
Relations between Moscow and Jerusalem have seen numerous ups and downs since the birth of Israel in 1948. Two main issues have dominated the relationship. The first is security, with the Soviet Union, then the Russian Federation providing diplomatic support and military aid to Israel’s enemies, especially, in recent years, to Iran and Syria. The second issue is the freedom of Jewish emigration to Israel. Finally, since the advent of Vladimir Put…
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
This book is about decision-making by four of Israel’s Prime Ministers: David Ben-Gurion, Menahem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel (Arik) Sharon. In each case, the authors, Dennis Ross, a seasoned an
The Middle East Since Camp David
Israel Under Rabin
Israel-US relations, Marvin Feuerwerger Israel and the American Jewish community, George Gruen Israel and the successor-states of the Soviet Union, Robert 0. Freedman Israel's move toward peace, Theodore Friedgut Israel and the Palestinians, Helena Cobban Israel and Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, Anne M. Lesch the Labour Party in power, Myron Aranoff the Likud - between ideological purity and pragmatic readjustment Ilan Peleg Rabin and the religious …
Israel and the United States
During his tenure as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has dealt with three American presidents: Bill Clinton (1996–1999), Barack Obama (2009–2017), and Donald Trump (2017–). This chapter will examine Netanyahu’s relationship with all three. It will first analyze the lessons that Netanyahu may have learned from his experience with Bill Clinton and will then deal with the ups and downs of Netanyahu’s dealings with Obama, who, while provi…
Introduction to Israel in the Netanyahu era
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with Israeli domestic politics, evaluates Netanyahu’s role as leader of the Likud party, as well as his role as prime minister, and discusses how the other Israeli political parties have adjusted to him. It provides a series of case studies of Israel’s relations with Iran, Turkey, Russia, the Palestinians, and the Arab worl…
Israel under Netanyahu: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
Israel and the United States: Six Decades of Us–Israeli Relations
From Khrushchev and Brezhnev to Putin: Has Moscow’s Policy in the Middle East Come Full Circle
Russian under President Vladimir Putin has established a strong presence in the Middle East. In fact, in 2017, Russian involvement in the regional affairs is more pronounced. Putin has done his utmost to restore Russia’s prestige in the region and has been successful to an extent. Russia though for a brief period lost out to the USA, especially in the case of Iraq and Libya but its decisive intervention in Syria has changed the dynamics. If one c…
The erosion of US‒Israeli relations during Obama’s second term
The ugly rhetoric that erupted between Israeli and American leaders in 2014 epitomized the rapid deterioration of the relations between the two leaderships, if not yet the two countries, since Barack Obama became the American president and Binyamin Netanyahu the Israeli prime minister in 2009. To be sure, there have been conflicts between Israeli and American leaders in the past, yet none of them reached the level of personal rancour seen in 2014…
The Obama Legacy in the Middle East and the Trump Challenge
During the second term of President Barack Obama, US-Israeli relations sharply deteriorated. After a positive visit by President Obama to Israel in March 2013, major disagreements erupted over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, over the nuclear deal with Iran and, especially, over the construction of Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Making matters worse, personal recriminations crept into the Israeli-American dialogue on …
Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East
This is both a very intriguing and a very informative book. Joel Migdal, of the University of Washington, asserts that there were three transformative periods in the Middle East that affected US policy—even if US policymakers did not quite understand the nature of the transformations, or the state–society relations in the countries of the region they had to deal with. The three periods Migdal describes are (1) 1948–1952, bookended by the first Ar…
US Policy in the Middle East: Breakthrough or Breakdown
By the end of February 2014, US policy in the Middle East faced very serious challenges. Negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority had reached an impasse, and even the indefatigable efforts of US Secretary of State John Kerry had not succeeded in getting the two sides to sign an agreement or even a framework for an agreement. In the case of Iran, the United States (US) and the other members of the P-5 plus one (UK,…
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
Can the Conflict over the Temple Mount/Haram Be Solved
The issue of control over the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif is perhaps the most difficult of all the issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to solve. After presenting an analysis of the history of the conflict over the site—holy to both Jews and Moslems—this article argues that only the internationalization of the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif, an idea first suggested by David Ben-Gurion in 1937, will remove the issue as an element in the Israe…
R ussia , I srael and the A rab ‐I sraeli C onflict: T he P utin Y ears
Putin, Iran, and the Nuclear Weapons Issue
Russian foreign policy on Iran pursues a delicate balance between economic and strategic gain and diplomatic loss
The Religious Right and the Carter Administration
The ‘religious right’ came to prominence in the US during the late 1970s by campaigning on ‘social issues’ and encouraging many fundamentalist and evangelical Christians to get involved in politics. However, the fact that it clashed with ‘born again’ President Jimmy Carter over tax breaks for religious schools believed to be discriminatory, together with its illiberal stances on many issues, meant that it was characterized as an extremist movemen…
Sandler, Freedman and Telhami: Religion in Israeli Politics The Religious‐Secular Divide in Israeli Politics
The following is the edited text of a Sadat Forum held at the Brookings Institution on February 23, 1999. The cosponsors are the Brookings Foreign Policy Program and the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland
Superpower Diplomacy: The Soviet Union and the PLO . Roland Dannreuther
Super power Diplomacy
Russia and Israel under Yeltsin
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russia as its most important successor state put a new focus on the rapidly changing relations between Moscow and Jerusalem. From the 1967 war until Mikhail Gorbachev began his policy of perestroika twenty years later, Soviet policy-makers viewed Israel as a pariah state. In the latter years of the Gorbachev era, however, there was a major turnabout in Soviet policy toward Israel, and by the time t…
Russia and the Middle East under Yeltsin Part I
Russia and the Middle East under Yeltsin Part II
Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy, by Michael C. Hudson
An impressive work of scholarship on the political culture and changing society of the entire Arab world. The author gives us a good picture of each country as he pursues his general themes of legitimacy, nationalism, Arabism, and the inevitable 'modernization.' -Foreign Affairs
Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-80
Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East, by John D. Glassman
Journal Article Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East, by John D. Glassman Get access Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East by John D. Glassman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.—viii, 243 pp. $12.50. Robert O. Freedman Robert O. Freedman The Baltimore Hebrew College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 92…
The Superpowers and the Syrian-Israeli Conflict
Foreword Preface Summary The Context of the Syrian-Israeli Conflict, 1978-1989 Developments in the Conflict The U.S.-Israeli Relationship The Soviet-Syrian Relationship Beyond Crisis Management? Index
The Religious Right and the Carter Administration
The ‘religious right’ came to prominence in the US during the late 1970s by campaigning on ‘social issues’ and encouraging many fundamentalist and evangelical Christians to get involved in politics. However, the fact that it clashed with ‘born again’ President Jimmy Carter over tax breaks for religious schools believed to be discriminatory, together with its illiberal stances on many issues, meant that it was characterized as an extremist movemen…
Sandler, Freedman and Telhami: Religion in Israeli Politics The Religious‐Secular Divide in Israeli Politics
The following is the edited text of a Sadat Forum held at the Brookings Institution on February 23, 1999. The cosponsors are the Brookings Foreign Policy Program and the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland
The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
This book is about decision-making by four of Israel’s Prime Ministers: David Ben-Gurion, Menahem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel (Arik) Sharon. In each case, the authors, Dennis Ross, a seasoned an
The Obama Legacy in the Middle East and the Trump Challenge
During the second term of President Barack Obama, US-Israeli relations sharply deteriorated. After a positive visit by President Obama to Israel in March 2013, major disagreements erupted over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, over the nuclear deal with Iran and, especially, over the construction of Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Making matters worse, personal recriminations crept into the Israeli-American dialogue on …
Putin, Iran, and the Nuclear Weapons Issue
Russian foreign policy on Iran pursues a delicate balance between economic and strategic gain and diplomatic loss
The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
Part I The Military and Political Dynamics of the Gulf War: The Persian Gulf War - A Political-Military Assessment, Bard E. ONeill and Ilana Kass. Part 2 The Policy of External Powers: US Policy toward the Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, Robert E. Hunter Moscow and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, Robert O. Freedman Fire on the Other Side of the River - Japan and the Persian Gulf War, Eugene Brown. Part 3 The Gulf Region: Iraq after the…
The Intifada: Its Impact on Israel, the Arab World, and the Superpowers
The Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, erupted in December 1987. Since then, successive Israeli governments, the Arab world, and the superpowers have reacted to the complex events in the Middle East in distinct - and discordant - ways. This wide-ranging volume analyzes the Intifada in three ways. It defines the nature of the Intifada and its relationship both to previous Palestinian resistance movements and to the current PLO leadership. It exami…
The Middle East after the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Patterns of Soviet Policy toward the Middle East
Soviet policy toward the Middle East since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war has been essentially reactive in nature, as Moscow has reacted to events in the region that it neither caused nor had much ability to control. Moscow has benefited from some events, such as the fall of the shah, the formation of an Arab anti-Camp David alignment, and U.S. policy errors in Lebanon. Just as frequently, however, Moscow's position in the Middle East has suffered fro…
Soviet Policy toward the Middle East since 1970
Industrialization, Labor Controls, and Democracy: A Comment
Industrialization, Labor Controls, and Democracy: A Comment
Soviet Policy toward the Middle East since 1970
Soviet Policy toward the Middle East Since 1970
Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East, by John D. Glassman
Journal Article Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East, by John D. Glassman Get access Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East by John D. Glassman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.—viii, 243 pp. $12.50. Robert O. Freedman Robert O. Freedman The Baltimore Hebrew College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 92…
Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy, by Michael C. Hudson
An impressive work of scholarship on the political culture and changing society of the entire Arab world. The author gives us a good picture of each country as he pursues his general themes of legitimacy, nationalism, Arabism, and the inevitable 'modernization.' -Foreign Affairs
Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-80
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier. The Soviet Union and the Third World: An Economic Bind. New York: Praeger, 1983. 188 pp
The Middle East Since Camp David
Moscow and a Middle East Peace Settlement
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert O. FreedmanRobert O. Freedman is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone professor of political science and dean of graduate studies at the Baltimore Hebrew College. He is the author of Societ Policy Toward the Middle East Since 1970 and is the editor of World Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict and The Middle East Since Camp Dacid
Patterns of Soviet Policy toward the Middle East
Soviet policy toward the Middle East since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war has been essentially reactive in nature, as Moscow has reacted to events in the region that it neither caused nor had much ability to control. Moscow has benefited from some events, such as the fall of the shah, the formation of an Arab anti-Camp David alignment, and U.S. policy errors in Lebanon. Just as frequently, however, Moscow's position in the Middle East has suffered fro…
Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-80
The Middle East after the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Decisions (London: (I. B. Tauris and Company Ltd., 1988). Pp. 246
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Moscow's Third World Strategy
The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada
The Superpowers and the Syrian-Israeli Conflict
Foreword Preface Summary The Context of the Syrian-Israeli Conflict, 1978-1989 Developments in the Conflict The U.S.-Israeli Relationship The Soviet-Syrian Relationship Beyond Crisis Management? Index
The Intifada: Its Impact on Israel, the Arab World, and the Superpowers
The Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, erupted in December 1987. Since then, successive Israeli governments, the Arab world, and the superpowers have reacted to the complex events in the Middle East in distinct - and discordant - ways. This wide-ranging volume analyzes the Intifada in three ways. It defines the nature of the Intifada and its relationship both to previous Palestinian resistance movements and to the current PLO leadership. It exami…
Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet Policy since the Invasion of Afghanistan
Moscow and the Third World under Gorbachev
The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
Part I The Military and Political Dynamics of the Gulf War: The Persian Gulf War - A Political-Military Assessment, Bard E. ONeill and Ilana Kass. Part 2 The Policy of External Powers: US Policy toward the Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, Robert E. Hunter Moscow and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, Robert O. Freedman Fire on the Other Side of the River - Japan and the Persian Gulf War, Eugene Brown. Part 3 The Gulf Region: Iraq after the…
Dynamics of the Palestinian Uprising: An Assessment of Causes, Character, and Consequences
Securing the Covenant: United States-Israel Relations after the Cold War, by Bernard Reich
Radical Islam and the struggle for influence in Central Asia
The threat of an Iranian‐style Islamic takeover of the newly independent states of Central Asia is currently more of a potential than actual threat to the secular rulers of these countries. Nonetheless, economic, environmental and nationality problems render these rulers vulnerable to a future Islamic potential challenge. The threat of Islam has been used by local leaders to justify dictatorships and intervene in neighboring countries, while fore…
Russia and the Middle East under Yeltsin Part I
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