National Security and the Teaching of the Conflict (2017) – Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Essential Readings

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Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
(Palgrave Macmillan 2013).

– Introduction
– Chapter 2: The Partitioning of Palestine – “Nakba” and Independence

Udi Dekel and Omer Einav, “It’s Time to Decide: Notes on the Conference Marking One Decade of the Institute for National Security Studies,” INSS Insight No. 892, February 5, 2017

Recommended Readings

Shai Feldman and Ariel Levite, “Seven Realities That Made an Iran Deal Almost Inevitable” The National Interest, July 21, 2015.

Mark Heller, “Regional Transformation in the Middle East in the Middle East 2015,” in Shlomo Brom and Anat Kurz, eds., Strategic Survey for Israel 2015-2016 (Tel Aviv: The Institute for National Security Studies), pp. 17-27.

Khalil Shikaki, “The End of the `Abbas Decade’: The Crumbling of the Post-Intifada Status-Quo,”Middle East Brief # 97, January 2016. (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, Crown Center for Middle East Studies).

Ilan Goldenberg, Gadi Shamni, Nimrod Novik, Kris Bauman, “Advancing the Dialogue: A Security System for the Two-Sate Solution,” CNAS Publication (Washington DC: Center for a New American Security, May 2016) pp. 1-6.

Shai Feldman “Netanyahu’s Allies and Adversaries,” The National Interest, (March 20, 2013)

Shai Feldman “The Tough Task of Middle East Peace,” The National Interest, February 27, 2013

Shai Feldman “Israel’s Election and the Iran Crisis,” The National Interest, (January 18, 2013)

Shai Feldman “Bibi’s Choice After Election Will Set Course for Israel,” Al-Monitor, (January 16, 2013)

Graham T. Allison Jr. and Shai Feldman “The Coming Clash Over Iran,” The National Interest,(December 10, 2012)

Graham T. Allison Jr. and Shai Feldman “Why Netanyahu Backed Down,” New York Times(October 13, 2012)

Shlomo Brom, Shai Feldman, and Shimon Stein “Israel and the New Egypt: Is it all bad news?”The American Interest (September 4, 2012)

Shai Feldman, “Why Shimon Peres Still Matters,” Al-Monitor (September 3, 2012)

Shai Feldman “The Israeli Debate on Attacking Iran is Over,” Foreign Policy: The Middle East Channel (August 20, 2012)

Jonathan_Schachte r “Unusally Quiet: Is SIrael Deterring Terrorism?” Strategic Assessment Vol. 13.2 (August 2010).

Shlomo Brom, “Quiet in the Palestinian Arena: The Eye of the Storm,” Strategic Assessment Vol. 14:1 (April 2011).

Lavie, Ephraim, “Between Settlement and Crisis The Next Round of the Palestinian Issue, Strategic Assessment, Volume 124 (February 2010).

Brom, Shlomo,”Fewer Gestures, More Substance: Possible Developments along the Israeli Palestinian Track,” Strategic Assessment, Volume 12:3 (November 2009), pp. 39-50

Brom, Shlomo, Giora Eiland, Oded Eran, “Partial Agreement with the Palestinians,” Strategic Assessment, Volume 123 (November 2009), pp. 67-86

Even, Shmuel, “Israel’s Strategy of Unilateral Withdrawal,” Strategic Assessment, Volume 12:1 (June 2009) pp. 29-45 even-shmuel

Amidror, Yaacov, “Winning Counterinsurgency War The Israeli Experience” (Jerusalem The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2008)

Eiland, Giora, “The Third Lebanon War: Target Lebanon”, Strategic Assessment, Volume 11, No. 2, (November 2008).

Kuperwasser, Yossi, The Next War with Hizbollah Should Lebanon be the Target, Strategic Assessment, Volume 112 (November 2008).

Ephraim Kam, ed. Israel and a Nuclear Iran Implications for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Defense (Tel Aviv The Institute for National Security Studies, Memorandum no. 94, July 2008)

Malka, Amos, “Israel and Asymmetrical Deterrence,” Comparative Strategy, Vol. 271 (JanuaryFebruary 2008), pp. 1-19.

Kober, Avi, “The Israeli Defense Forces in the Second Lebanon War Why the Poor Performance,” Journal of Strategic studies, Vol. 311 (February 2008), pp. 3-40.

Bar, Shmuel, “Deterring Non-State Terrorist Groups The Case of Hezbollah,” Comparative Strategy, Vol 265 (October 2007), pp. 496-493.

Kam, Ephraim A Nuclear Iran What Does it Mean, and What Can be Done (Tel Aviv The Institute for National Security Studies, Memorandum no. 88, February 2007)

Brom, Shlomo and Meir Elran, eds.The Second Lebanon War Strategic Perspectives (Tel Aviv The Institute for National Security Studies, 2007)

Maoz, Zeev

Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel’s Security and Foreign Policy

(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006)

ISBN/ISSN: 9780472115402

Frisch, Hillel, “Motivation or Capabilities Israeli Counterterrorism Against Palestinian Suicide Bombings and Violence,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol.295 (October 2006), pp. 843-869.

Feldman, Shai, “Israeli Strategy at the Crossroads,” in Bo Huldt et als. (eds.) A Wider Middle East (Stockholm: National Defense College, 2005)

Inbar, Efraim, “The Resilience of Israeli-Turkish Relations,” Israel Affairs, Vol. 114 (Fall 2005) pp. 591-607.

Catignani, Sergio, “The Strategic Impass in Low-Intensity Conflicts The Gap Between Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and Tactics During the Al-Aqsa Intifada,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 281 (February 2005), pp. 57-75.

David, Steven R., “Fatal Choices: Israel’s Policy of Targeted Killing,” Review of International Affairs, Vol. 2:3 (Spring 2003), pp. 138-158.

Gross, Michael, “Fighting by Other Means in the Mideast A Critical Analysis of Israel’s Assassination Policy,” Political Studies, Vol. 512 (2003), pp. 350-368.

Mendelsohn, Barak, “Israel’s Self-Defeating Deterrence in the 1991 Gulf War,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 26:4 (December 2003), pp. 83-107.

Inbar, Efraim, “Regional Implications of the Israeli-Turkish Strategic Partnership,” Turkish Studies, Vol. 3:2 (Autumn 2002), pp. 21-43.

Brom, Shlomo, “Is the Jordan Valley Truly a Security Zone for Israel,” Strategic Assessment, Vol. 34 (January 2001), pp. 10-15.

Tal, Israel

National Security: The Israeli Experience

(Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000)

ISBN/ISSN: 027596812X

Schiff, Zeev, Israeli Preconditions for Palestinian Statehood (Washington DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1999)

Schultze, Kirsten E.

Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon

(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)

ISBN/ISSN: 0333711238

Bar Joseph, Uri, “Variations on a Theme: The Conceptualization of Deterrence in Israeli Strategic Thinking,” Security Studies, Vol. 7:3 (Spring 1998), pp. 145-181.

Feldman, Shai, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997) ISBN/ISSN: 0262561085

Inbar, Efraim and Shmuel Sandler, “The Risks of Palestinian Statehood,” Survival, Vol. 39:2 (Summer 1997), pp. 23-41.

Shalev, Aryeh, Israel and Syria: Peace and Security on the Golan (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1994) ISBN/ISSN: 0813322227

Feldman, Shai, “Israeli Deterrence in the Gulf War” in Aharon Klieman and Ariel Levite (eds.) Deterrence in the Middle East: where Theory and Practice Converge (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1993) ISBN/ISSN: 0813322200

Evron, Yair, “Deterrence Experience in the Arab-Israeli Conflict” in Aharon Klieman and Ariel Levite (eds.) Deterrence in the Middle East: where Theory and Practice Converge (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1993) ISBN/ISSN: 0813322200

Schiff, Zeev. Peace with Security: Israel’s Minimal Security Requirements in Negotiations with Syria,(Washington DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1993).

Yaniv, Avner, Deterrence Without the Bomb: The Politics of Israeli Strategy (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987) ISBN/ISSN: 066911104X

Feldman, Shai, Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: A Strategy for the 1980s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983) ISBN/ISSN: 0231055463

Feldman, Shai, “The Bombing of Osiraq Revisited,” International Security, Vol. 7:2 (Autumn 1982), pp. 114-142.

The Arab-Israeli Peace Process

Makovsky, David and Dennis Ross

Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East

(New York: Viking, 2009)

ISBN/ISSN: 0670020893

Indyk, Martin

Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East

(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009)

ISBN/ISSN: 1416594299

Bassiouni, M. Cherif and Shlomo Ben Ami, A Guide to Documents on the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli Conflict: 1987-2008 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009) ISBN/ISSN: 9004175342

Miller, Aaron David