Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 396
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978-1-4422-4507-5 • Hardback • July 2016 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-4422-4508-2 • eBook • July 2016 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
John Ehrenberg is Chair of the Political Science Department and senior professor of Political Science at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has received the Alfred McCoy Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Political Science Association’s Caucus for a New Political Science.
Yoav Peled is professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in political science from UCLA in 1982. His work has dealt with citizenship and ethnic politics in Israel and with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He co-authored the book Being Israeli: the Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which won the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for best book in Middle East studies in 2002. He is co-editor in chief of The Public Sphere: Tel Aviv Journal of Political Science (in Hebrew).
Contributors:
Oren Barak, lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe Behar is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester
Stephen Eric Bronner, director of global relations and professor of political science,, Rutgers University
Leila Farsakh, Palestinian political economist and associate professor of political science at University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield professor of international peace, Department of Government, Harvard University
Honaida Ghanim, general director of “MADAR” the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (Ramallah) and a fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lev Luis Grinberg, political economist and sociologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Micheline Ishay, University of Denver Distinguished Scholar, and professor of International Studies and Human Rights, Josef Korbel of School of International Studies, University of Denver, Colorado
Amal Jamal, chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and head of the Walter Leibach Institute
Yoav Kapshuk, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University
Rassem Khamaisi, professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
David Kretzmer, professor emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and professor of law at Sapir College School of Law
Ian S. Lustick, Bess W. Heyman chair in political science and professor of political science, The University of Pennsylvania
Assaf Sharon, academic director and research fellow at Molad, the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy, Jerusalem and assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University
Richard Silverstein is a journalist, blogger and regular contributor to Mint Press News.
Raif Zreik, a Palestinian Israeli, currently teaching in the Law School, Carmel College and Minerva Humanities Institute, Tel Aviv University
Introduction: The Picture
John Ehrenberg
Section 1: Overviews
Chapter 1: Facing the Music: Israel, Palestine, and the Politics of Partisan Delusions
Stephen Eric Bronner
Chapter 2: Making Sense of the Nakba: Ari Shavit, Baruch and Zionist Claims to Territory
Ian S. Lustick
Chapter 3: Israel and the Closing of the American Jewish Mind
Richard Silverstein
Chapter 4: The Root Causes Of Enduring Conflict: Can Israel And Palestine Co-Exist?
Jeffry Frieden
Chapter 5: Reclaiming Human Rights: Alternative Paths to an Israeli/Palestinian Peace
Micheline IshayandDavid Kretzmer
Section 2: Two States
Chapter 6: Not Exactly Apartheid: Between Settler Colonialism and Military Occupation
Honaida Ghanim
Chapter 7: The One-State Delusion
Assaf Sharon
Chapter 8: To What Extent Reconciliation? An Analysis of the Geneva Accord between Israelis and Palestinians
Yoav Kapshuk
Chapter 9: One Homeland, Two States: Planning Alternative Spatial Relations between Palestine and Israel
Rassem Khamaisi
Section 3: The One-State Alternative
Chapter 10: The Way Forward in the Middle East
Horit Herman Peled and Yoav Peled
Chapter 11: The One-State Solution and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Palestinian Challenges and Prospects
Leila Farsakh
Chapter 12: A One-State Solution? From a ‘Struggle Unto Death’ to ‘Master-Slave’ Dialectics
Raif Zreik
Chapter 13: Past and Present Perfect of Israel’s One-State Solution
Moshe Behar
Section 4: Confederation
Chapter 14: Towards a Shared Vision of Israel and Israel/Palestine
Oren Barak
Chapter 15: Neither One nor Two: Reflections about a Shared Future in Israel-Palestine
Lev Luis Grinberg
Chapter 16: Between One and Two: Apartheid or Confederation for Israel/Palestine?
Oren Yiftahel
Chapter 17: Beyond Traditional Sovereignty Theory in Conflict Resolution: Lessons from Israel/Palestine
Amal Jamal
Conclusion: Out of the Darkness
John Ehrenberg
[T]here is much in this book that deserves praise and may serve to inspire optimism. Indeed, there are a number of nuanced chapters that focus on such issues as the root causes of the Arab–Israeli conflict; the essential nature of human rights; reconciliation; and planning spatial relations between Israelis and Palestinians. These, along with others concerning, inter alia, the idea of sharing sovereignty and reflections on a shared future in Israel–Palestine, contribute to give this book a certain value-added, especially when dealing with a subject-matter that may have become moribund in the view of many due to its intractable nature.... Overall, this volume will contribute to the existing literature on the topic of Israel– Palestine and their future, and will add to readers’ knowledge of the subject-matter.
— International Affairs
This book assembles some of the best critical experts about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to reflect creatively about what may come next, after the demise of the long awaited “Two States Solution”. It suggests rich and fresh diagnoses and prognoses of the conflict. It is a timely collection, and if I had to read now one book on the subject it would be it.
— Uri Ram, professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; President of Israeli Sociological Association
The reach is ambitious, spanning not only suggestions for radically altering the prevailing systems of control
over Israel-Palestine, but also a wide variety of historical, analytical, philosophical and political expositions and critiques aimed at providing insights into the stubbornness of the conflict and barriers to its resolution.
— Ethnic and Racial Studies