This SIIS faculty syllabus explores the relationship between Israel and the Middle East in terms of the Arab-Israeli conflict and political developments in the Middle East.
Essential Reading
Asher Susser, “Israel’s Place in a Changing Regional Order, 1948-2013,” Israel Studies, Vol. 19; No. 2 (Summer 2014), pp. 218-238.
Asher Susser: The “Arab Spring”: Competing Analytical Paradigms, The Middle East Book Review, 2012
Itamar Rabinovich
The Lingering Conflict; Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East
pp. 247-282
(Washington, DC, Brookings Institution, 2011)
ISBN: 978-0-8157-2229-8
Separation Barrier Map in the West Bank, Feb. 2008 (B’tzelem)
Recommended Reading
Itamar Rabinovich
The Lingering Conflict; Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East
(Washington, DC, Brookings Institution, 2011)
ISBN: 978-0-8157-2229-8
Benny Morris
Righteous Victims: A History of the Arab-Zionist Conflict, 1881-1999
(New York: Knopf, 2001)
ISBN/ISSN: 0679744754
Michael Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
(Oxford University Press, 2002)
ISBN/ISSN: 0679744754