books by Alan Dowty

books by Alan Dowty

books:

Alan Dowty

The Jewish State: A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface
Alan Dowty

University of California Press, 2001

As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its clarity and its comprehensive interpretation of the ...

Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement (Twentieth Century Fund Report)
Alan Dowty

Yale University Press, 1989

In this eloquent and informative book, Alan Dowty traces how different countries throughout history have dealt with movement in and out of their borders, explores why governments resort to restrictive measures, and describes the effects of these policies.

Israel/Palestine

Alan Dowty

Polity, 2008

Excellent Book on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This is a truly excellent book on one of the most difficult conflicts in today's world, the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians over what Professor Dowty calls, thoughtfully, "Israel/Palestine". This small volume is as great an introduction to the conflict as I ...

Critical Issues in Israeli Society (Praeger Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies)

Praeger Publishers, 2004

Fashioning a working political structure in Israel that will bring together all aspects of society, from Jews to Arabs, ultra-Orthodox to assertively secular, has never been easy. However, two developments have intensified this challenge: demographic changes have sharpened the differences between the groups; and open challenges of legitimacy have ...

Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace
Yehoshafat Harkabi

Transaction Publishers, 2008

This book began as a personal effort to comprehend the effect of nuclear weapons on the current era and its international system. Nuclear weapons have not merely revolutionized the military sphere but havce also left their stamp on the world order. Knowledge of the basic principles of nuclear strategy has become a prerequisite to understanding ...

Middle East Crisis: U. S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973

Alan Dowty

Univ of California Pr, 1984

A Must Have About Rarely Discussed Crises
Alan Dowty draws on a numerous reasources (quoting personalities from Kissinger and King Hussein, to Anatoley Dobrynin) to discuss US policies and actions taken in the Lebanese Crisis in 1958 (when Lebanese leftists ignited a small scale civil war against the ...