Avi Shlaim
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 964334 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Avi Shlaim |
| PRENOMES | Avi |
| SOBRENOME | Shlaim |
| ASSINATURA | SHLAIM A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Reading |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 175 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The United States and the Berlin Blockade 1948-1949
The New Middle East
The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011–12. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Although specific conditions in individual countries tha…
Rabbi John Rayner, Ethical Zionism and Israel
Rabbi John Rayner was an eminent proponent of ethical Zionism. His views about Israel are related in this article to his views about Judaism and Jewish ethics. The three pillars of Judaism are: truth, justice and peace. Rabbi Rayner personified these values to a remarkable degree. The common thread that runs through his countless sermons and articles was the emphasis on the gentler and more outward-looking values of Judaism. It is by cultivating …
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War
The June 1967 war was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East. In six days, the Israelis defeated the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies, seizing large portions of their territories. Two veteran scholars of the Middle East bring together some of the most knowledgeable experts in their fields to reassess the origins and the legacies of the war. Each chapter takes a different perspective from the vantage point of a different partici…
The Iron Wall Revisited
More than a decade after the publication of his acclaimed The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Avi Shlaim returns to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's theory as a framework for understanding Israel's Arab policies, this time focusing on the post-1967 period. The author revisits the theory's formulation by the leader of Revisionist Zionism in 1923 and its near total convergence with the (unacknowledged) strategy followed by Labor Zionism. Examining each Isr…
Israël, les États-Unis et le printemps arabe
N'est-ce pas un paradoxe qu'Israël, « la seule démocratie du Moyen-Orient », ait fait preuve d'autant de méfiance à l'égard du printemps arabe qui balaye un à un les dictateurs de la région ? Le saut dans l'inconnu que représente le processus de démocratisation dans le monde arabe ne questionne pas uniquement les intérêts stratégiques d'Israël et de son allié et protecteur américain, mais aussi les impératifs de stabilité qui guident ses relation…
Reflections on the Israeli-palestinian Conflict
The author, an Israeli “new historian”, considers that the state of Israel is legitimate, but only within its original boundaries and that the Palestinians are the main victims of the conflict, victims of Israeli colonialism. The history of the region over the last 60 years can be convincingly explained in terms of the strategy of the “iron wall”, first expounded by Jabotinski, which advocates negotiation only from a position of unassailable stre…
Le conflit et l'historien
Comment l'historien peut-il travailler sur un objet qui n'est pas encore « refroidi » ? Henry Laurens, spécialiste de la Palestine, et Avi Shlaim, spécialiste d'Israël, expliquent ici comment ils mènent leur travail sur un thème surchargé d'enjeux politiques. Comment se placer à bonne distance du sujet ? Quels outils d'interprétation mobiliser ? Comment voient-ils leur responsabilité civique
Pensée 3
As a member of the British academic community—an international relations professor who is deeply involved in Middle Eastern studies—I find it distressing that some of the most dismal aspects of the American academic environment are coming our way. Nowhere is this trend more pronounced than on the question of Israel. That country is, of course, no stranger to controversy, but the attack on the right of academics to criticize Israel is a relatively…
The War for Palestine
The 1948 war led to the creation of the state of Israel, the fragmentation of Palestine, and to a conflict which has raged across the intervening sixty years. The historical debate likewise continues and these debates are encapsulated in the second edition of The War for Palestine, updated to include chapters on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. In a preface to this edition, the editors survey the state of scholarship in this contested field. The impact …
Israel Between East and West, 1948–56
The two main issues in Israel's foreign policy are relations with the Arab world and relations with the Great Powers, and there is extensive literature on both. But whereas the literature on relations with the Great Powers is marked by a broad consensus, the literature on relations with the Arab world is dominated by a deep and often acrimonious debate. A major landmark in the evolution of this debate was the emergence in the late 1980s of a scho…
Interview With Abba Eban, 11 March 1976
ABBA EBAN WAS OFTEN REFERRED to as the voice of Israel. He was one of Israel's most brilliant, eloquent, and skillful representatives abroad in the struggle for independence and in the first 25 years of statehood. He was less effective in the rough and tumble of Israeli domestic politics because he lacked the common touch and, more importantly, because he lacked a power base of his own. Nevertheless, he played a major role in the formulation and …
The War for Palestine
The War for Palestine
New History for a New Israel
Israel, the great powers, and the middle east crisis of 1958
(1999). Israel, the great powers, and the middle east crisis of 1958. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 27, The Statecraft of British Imperialism, pp. 177-192
The Cold War and the Middle East
Abstract The Cold War has been researched in minute detail and written about at great length but it remains one of the most elusive and enigmatic conflicts of modern times. With the ending of the Cold War, it is now possible to review the entire post-war period, to examine the Cold War as history. The Middle East occupies a special place in the history of the Cold War. It was critical to its birth, its life and its demise. In the aftermath of the…
The Cold War and the Middle East
The Protocol of Séevres, 1956
The tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956 involved an extraordinary reversal of Britain's position in the Middle East. The French were the matchmakers in bringing Britain and Israel into a military pact whose principal aim was the overthrow of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The war plot against Egypt was hatched towards the end of October 1956 in a secret meeting at Séevres, near Paris. The discussions lasted three days and culminated in the signing o…
The Likud In Power
On 17 May 1977, Menachem Begin and his Likud union of nationalist and liberal parties won their first electoral victory. This election represented a major landmark in Israel's history. It brought to an end three decades of Labor rule and ushered in a new era which was to last fifteen [End Page 278] years, during which the right-wing Likud dominated Israeli politics. When Likud came to power, the literature on it was very sparse; by the time it fe…
Ben-Gurion Revisited
Ben-Gurion Revisited
Israeli Politics and Middle East Peacemaking
Israeli Politics and Middle East Peacemaking
Israel, Henry Kissinger once remarked, has no foreign policy, only domestic politics. Although this remark involves an obvious oversimplification, it does raise an interesting question about the relationship between the two in Israel. While domestic politics influence foreign policy in all countries, the impact of the first on the second is particularly profound in Israel, where the questions of national identity involved in foreign policy weigh …
The Debate about 1948
Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they themselves have fabricated." Thus remarked the old Arab headmaster to young Saeed on his return to Haifa in the summer of 1948 in Emile Habiby's tragicomic novel The Secret Life of Saʿid, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist . The headmaster spoke about the Israelis more in sorrow than in anger: "It is true they did demolish those villages ... and did evict their inhabitants. But, my son, they are…
Failures in National Intelligence Estimates
The principal question which this article seeks to answer is: Why was the intention of the Arabs to launch the Yom Kippur War misperceived despite the fact that Israeli Intelligence had ample and accurate information on enemy moves and dispositions? In this anatomy of the Israeli intelligence failure, extensive use is made of the report of the official commission of inquiry that investigated the events leading up to the war. The article is equall…
The Debate about 1948
Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they themselves have fabricated." Thus remarked the old Arab headmaster to young Saeed on his return to Haifa in the summer of 1948 in Emile Habiby's tragicomic novel The Secret Life of Saʿid, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist . The headmaster spoke about the Israelis more in sorrow than in anger: "It is true they did demolish those villages ... and did evict their inhabitants. But, my son, they are…
The War for Palestine
Decision Process, Choice, and Consequences
Weapons systems have a great impact on national security decision making. In particular, the use of air power for political coercion or “compellence” is a tempting option when a nation has overwhelming aerial capabilities relative to an opponent. Israel's decision to launch air attacks deep within Egypt during the 1970 War of Attrition suggests that coercive bombing may not yield expected benefits and effect unanticipated costs. The decision proc…
The Oslo Accord
The Rise and Fall of the All-Palestine Government in Gaza
(1990). The Rise and Fall of the All-Palestine Government in Gaza. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 37-53
Collusion across the Jordan
Israel Between East and West, 1948–56
The two main issues in Israel's foreign policy are relations with the Arab world and relations with the Great Powers, and there is extensive literature on both. But whereas the literature on relations with the Great Powers is marked by a broad consensus, the literature on relations with the Arab world is dominated by a deep and often acrimonious debate. A major landmark in the evolution of this debate was the emergence in the late 1980s of a scho…
Husni Za‘im and the Plan to Resettle Palestinian Refugees in Syria
(1986). Husni Za‘im and the Plan to Resettle Palestinian Refugees in Syria. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 68-80
The roots of Begin's success
Journal Article The roots of Begin's success Get access The roots of Begin's success. Edited by Dan Caspi, Abraham Diskinand Emanuel Gutmann. London, Canberra: Croom Helm; New York: St Martin's. 1983. 297 pp. Index. £16.95. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 514–515, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617666 Publi…
Britain, the Berlin blockade and the cold war
The role played by Britain in the conduct of East-West relations during the formative period of the cold war, from 1945 to 1950, is only now beginning to receive the detailed scholarly attention which the subject merits by virtue of its importance and which the release of the official papers makes possible. In the vast and still rapidly growing literature on the origins of the cold war, attention is focussed on the principal protagonists, the Uni…
Radical Dissent in Contemporary Israeli Politics
Journal Article Radical Dissent in Contemporary Israeli Politics: Cracks in the Wall Get access Radical Dissent in Contemporary Israeli Politics: Cracks in the Wall. By David J. Schnall. New York: Praeger. 1979. (Distrib. in UK by Holt-Saunders, Eastbourne). 229 pp. £15.00. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 3, Summer 1980, P…
Prelude to the Accord
The Iron Wall Revisited
More than a decade after the publication of his acclaimed The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Avi Shlaim returns to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's theory as a framework for understanding Israel's Arab policies, this time focusing on the post-1967 period. The author revisits the theory's formulation by the leader of Revisionist Zionism in 1923 and its near total convergence with the (unacknowledged) strategy followed by Labor Zionism. Examining each Isr…
Israel, the great powers, and the middle east crisis of 1958
(1999). Israel, the great powers, and the middle east crisis of 1958. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 27, The Statecraft of British Imperialism, pp. 177-192
The Protocol of Séevres, 1956
The tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956 involved an extraordinary reversal of Britain's position in the Middle East. The French were the matchmakers in bringing Britain and Israel into a military pact whose principal aim was the overthrow of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The war plot against Egypt was hatched towards the end of October 1956 in a secret meeting at Séevres, near Paris. The discussions lasted three days and culminated in the signing o…
Prelude to the Accord
War and Peace in the Middle East
The Rise and Fall of the All-Palestine Government in Gaza
Husni Za'im and the Plan to Resettle Palestinian Refugees in Syria
British Foreign Secretaries since 1945
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Israel
Journal Article Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Israel Get access Avi Shlaim, Avi Shlaim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Avner Yaniv Avner Yaniv Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 1980, Pages 242–262, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615407 Published: 01 April 1980
The Likud In Power
On 17 May 1977, Menachem Begin and his Likud union of nationalist and liberal parties won their first electoral victory. This election represented a major landmark in Israel's history. It brought to an end three decades of Labor rule and ushered in a new era which was to last fifteen [End Page 278] years, during which the right-wing Likud dominated Israeli politics. When Likud came to power, the literature on it was very sparse; by the time it fe…
Israeli Politics and Middle East Peacemaking
Israel, Henry Kissinger once remarked, has no foreign policy, only domestic politics. Although this remark involves an obvious oversimplification, it does raise an interesting question about the relationship between the two in Israel. While domestic politics influence foreign policy in all countries, the impact of the first on the second is particularly profound in Israel, where the questions of national identity involved in foreign policy weigh …
The Oslo Accord
The Vedel Report and the Reform of the European Parliament
Journal Article THE VEDEL REPORT AND THE REFORM OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Get access Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 1973dec, December 1973, Pages 159–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051664 Published: 01 December 1973
Prelude to Downfall
On 16 June 1940 the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, proposed to the French Prime Minister, M. Paul Reynaud, an indissoluble union between their two countries. This union was to be based on common citizenship, a formal association of the two Parliaments and joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies. A single war cabinet was to be entrusted with the direction of the
Britain's Quest for a World Role
Failures in National Intelligence Estimates
The principal question which this article seeks to answer is: Why was the intention of the Arabs to launch the Yom Kippur War misperceived despite the fact that Israeli Intelligence had ample and accurate information on enemy moves and dispositions? In this anatomy of the Israeli intelligence failure, extensive use is made of the report of the official commission of inquiry that investigated the events leading up to the war. The article is equall…
International Organisations
The External Economic Relations of the EEC
Decision Process, Choice, and Consequences
Weapons systems have a great impact on national security decision making. In particular, the use of air power for political coercion or “compellence” is a tempting option when a nation has overwhelming aerial capabilities relative to an opponent. Israel's decision to launch air attacks deep within Egypt during the 1970 War of Attrition suggests that coercive bombing may not yield expected benefits and effect unanticipated costs. The decision proc…
The EEC and Eastern Europe
1. Economic relations between the EEC and Eastern Europe: an introduction G. N. Yannopoulos and Avi Shlaim 2. The development of relations between the EEC and the CMEA Peter Marsh 3. The convergence of the CMEA on the EEC Peter Wiles and Alan Smith 4. Soviet views of Western economic integration John Pinder 5. East-West industrial cooperation agreements Philip Hanson 6. Western investment in Eastern Europe Richard Portes 7. Financial relations be…
British Foreign Secretaries since 1945
Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East
Journal Article Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective Get access Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective. By Shlomo Aronson. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1978. 448 pp. £14.25. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 1980, Pages 175–176, https:…
Radical Dissent in Contemporary Israeli Politics
Journal Article Radical Dissent in Contemporary Israeli Politics: Cracks in the Wall Get access Radical Dissent in Contemporary Israeli Politics: Cracks in the Wall. By David J. Schnall. New York: Praeger. 1979. (Distrib. in UK by Holt-Saunders, Eastbourne). 229 pp. £15.00. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 3, Summer 1980, P…
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Israel
Journal Article Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Israel Get access Avi Shlaim, Avi Shlaim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Avner Yaniv Avner Yaniv Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 1980, Pages 242–262, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615407 Published: 01 April 1980
The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949
Britain, the Berlin blockade and the cold war
The role played by Britain in the conduct of East-West relations during the formative period of the cold war, from 1945 to 1950, is only now beginning to receive the detailed scholarly attention which the subject merits by virtue of its importance and which the release of the official papers makes possible. In the vast and still rapidly growing literature on the origins of the cold war, attention is focussed on the principal protagonists, the Uni…
The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
Begin
Journal Article Begin: a biography Get access Begin: a biography. By Eric Silver. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1984. 278pp. Index. £12.50. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 4, Autumn 1984, Pages 714–715, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620107 Published: 01 October 1984
The roots of Begin's success
Journal Article The roots of Begin's success Get access The roots of Begin's success. Edited by Dan Caspi, Abraham Diskinand Emanuel Gutmann. London, Canberra: Croom Helm; New York: St Martin's. 1983. 297 pp. Index. £16.95. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 514–515, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617666 Publi…
Documents on the foreign policy of Israel. Vol. 3
Journal Article Documents on the foreign policy of Israel. Vol. 3: armistice negotiations with the Arab states, December 1948–July 1949 Get access Documents on the foreign policy of Israel. Vol. 3: armistice negotiations with the Arab states, December 1948–July 1949. Edited by Yemima Rosenthal. Jerusalem: Israel State Archives. 1983. 2 parts, 758, 229pp. Index. $69.50. Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim 1University of Reading Search for other works by this au…
The partition of Germany and the origins of the Cold War
The Cold War remains, despite the proliferation of studies of the subject, one of the most enigmatic and elusive international conflicts of modern times. Like all complex international conflicts, it does not have a single cause. Rather, it is the end result of a concatenation of a number of problems which, by their interaction, made it so intractable. Of these problems, none was more central or pervasive than the German problem. This was central …
Zionism in Crisis
Husni Za'im and the Plan to Resettle Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Husni Za‘im and the Plan to Resettle Palestinian Refugees in Syria
(1986). Husni Za‘im and the Plan to Resettle Palestinian Refugees in Syria. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 68-80
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