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US-Israeli Relations in a New Era: Issues and Challenges after 9/11 Edited by Eytan Gilboa and Efraim Inbar Routledge, 2009 This book examines in depth the fundamental problems, factors and issues in current US-Israeli relations, which will have implications both for the Middle East and for world peace and prosperity. 254 pages, 2009 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-47701-7, Price: £70.00 For ordering details, visit http://www.routledge.com

Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War Efraim Inbar Routledge, 2007 This book brings together a collection of essays that covers the main national security issues Israel has faced since 1973. 320 pages, 2007 Hardback ISBN: 9780415449557, Price: £70.00

Israel's Strategic Agenda Edited by Efraim Inbar Routledge, 2007 The first part of this book examines political and economic factors in the global strategic environment, while the second part focuses on Israel's main security challenges and national grand strategy. 296 pages, 2007 Hardback ISBN: 9780415413602, Price: £70.00

Radical Islam and International Security: Challenges and Responses Edited by Hillel Frisch and Efraim Inbar Routledge, 2007 This text serves as a welcome addition to the intellectual and policy debate on the nature of the radical Islam phenomenon and how to respond to it. It analyzes the phenomenon of radical Islam, the challenges it poses to international security and the strategic responses available. 240 pages, 2007 Hardback ISBN: 9780415444606, Price: £70.00

Israel and its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion Stuart Cohen Routledge, 2008 The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a 'people's army' responsible for the custody of national values. This volume analyses the circumstances currently undermining these perceptions, and explores both the changes occurring in Israel’s military framework, and their potential implications. The book highlights the influence exerted by massive shifts in both Israel's external strategic landscape and in the country's domestic and cultural environments, which have compelled the IDF to undertake major programs of structural reform, technological adaptation and doctrinal revision. 208 pages, 2008 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-40049-7, Price: £70.00 / $125.00 For ordering details, visit http://www.routledge.com

RELIGION IN WORLD CONFLICT Jonathan Fox and Shmuel Sandler The latest volume in the BESA Studies in International Security series tackles two crucial questions: First, how does religion in its various forms and manifestations influence world politics? Second, how will adding religion to the discourse on international relations modify our theoretical understanding? Each of these leading authors addresses different aspects of these questions in different contexts providing a diverse and multifaceted view of the topic. Susanna Pearce and Tanja Ellingsen examine the religious causes of conflict on the macro-level. Several of the contributors focus on specific conflicts. The Gaurav Ghose and Patrick James examine the Kashmir conflict from the Pakistani perspective and Carolyn James and Ozgur. Ozdamar examine it from the Indian perspective. Similarly Hillel Frisch examines the Palestinian-ISraeli conflict from the Palestinian perspective and Jonathan Rynhold examines it from the Israeli perspective. Finally, two of the authors examine other important issues. Stuart Cohen examines the evolution of the religious view of war in the Jewish tradition and Yehudit Auerbach examines whether can play a role in conflict resolution and reconciliation. These assessments deliver fascinating conclusions. 208 pages, 2006 Hardback ISBN: 0415371678 Price: £65.00

Special issue of The Review of International Affairs: Democracies and Small Wars Edited by Efraim Inbar Democracies and Small Wars, the latest volume in the BESA Studies in International Security, deals with an area of increasing importance in international relations. The growing disparities in technological and economic capabilities and the consequent asymmetries in military power are likely to increase the incidence of small wars, the classic ‘poor man’s war’, in case of unresolved conflict. However, despite the omnipresence of small wars, often called low-intensity conflicts, military establishments still prepare mostly for large-scale conventional war. As several essays in this volume document, more often than not they are ill prepared to meet the exigencies of small wars in terms of structure, equipment and training. The volume addresses the challenges faced by democracies in the conduct of small wars, and also suggests ways to improve performance through awareness of the vulnerabilities of democracies in fighting protracted, limited armed conflicts against non-conventional armed forces. This collection also looks at several case studies, examining perspectives of the state and the insurgent: the United States, India, Turkey, Greece, Israel and Northern Ireland. 225 pages, 2003 Hardback ISBN: 0714655341 Price: £75.00 Paperback ISBN: 0714684236 Price: £22.99

The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered, Editors: Andrew J. Bacevich, Efraim Inbar "The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered" subjects one of the formative events of the post-Cold War era and a watershed in Middle Eastern international politics to a comprehensive reassessment. The unprecedented willingness of major Arab countries to see the United States intervene in the Middle East at the head of an international military coalition, and the subsequent spectacular military victory, which restored the rule of the Sabah family in Kuwait and re-energized the Arab-Israeli peace process, seemed to herald a new reality in the Middle East. The demonstration of the US military might raised certain expectations regarding American influence as the only superpower in the post-Cold War era in the Middle East and other arenas. Since the US and its allies liberated Kuwait in what was by any measure a great military victory, the passing of time permits us to reconsider that victory - and the act of Iraqi aggression that made "Desert Storm" a necessity - in a broader historical context rather than simply a brief military conflict. This work considers the momentous events from three points of view: Arab, Israeli and American. Hardback ISBN: 9780714653723 Price: £75 Paperback ISBN: 9780714683058 Price: £22.99

Armed Forces in the Middle East: Politics and Strategy, Edited by Barry Rubin & Thomas Keaney The armed forces have long been one of the Middle East's most important institutions. The region's armies have frequently seized political power and have always had a powerful influence on government policy. Every country in the region devotes a relatively large proportion of its resources for arms purchases and military spending. The high level of internal disorder and international friction or wars have also made the armed forces extraordinarily central to the political solution in different nations and to the general life of the region. This volume examines the area's leading armed forces and their role in both military and political affairs. Among the armed forces specifically examined in this volume are those of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Turkey. It considers their missions, doctrine, training, equipment and effectiveness as fighting forces, and the relations between the armed forces and their respective governments. 268 pp., published 2002. £75.00 hardcover £22.99 paperback

US Allies in a Changing World The book is a collection of papers from a November 1998 international conference sponsored by the BESA Center and the Foreign Policy Institute at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. Edited by Barry Rubin and Thomas Keaney. This volume explores the development of the Unites States' alliances from the American perspective, as well as from that of its most important allies - Britain, Germany, the Gulf States, Israel, Turkey, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book considers how these relationships have changed in the tumultuous international environment of the past half-century, as well as looking at their present situations and the likely future direction of each country's link to the United States. 294 pp. Published Nov. 2000 £75.00 hardcover

Democratic Societies and Their Armed Forces: Israel in Comparative Context Papers from a June 1998 international research workshop at the BESA Center, involving Israel's best military and academic strategists and sociologists, along with more than one dozen experts from the US, Canada, Germany, France, England, Italy, India, Hungary and other countries. This book presents an overview of current transformations in societal-military relations in the western world. Within the context of that framework, it then explores their specific manifestations in Israel. The result is a comprehensive study of a process, which, in Israel as elsewhere, already affects the very fabric of a vital sphere of public life. Edited by Stuart A. Cohen. 294 pp. Published Apr. 2000 £75.00 hardcover £22.99 paperback

The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries This book provides a comprehensive and policy-relevant analysis of the complex web of contemporary economic trends, political developments and strategic considerations that are shaping the contours of the new post-Cold War world market for weaponry. Edited by Efraim Inbar and Benzion Zilberfarb (former director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Finance), the book considers the interplay between new trends in the arms business and the global security environment. 240 pp. Published April 1998 £75.00 hardcover £22.99 paperback

Israeli Strategy after Desert Storm: Lessons of the Second Gulf War In this volume, Maj. Gen. (res.) Aharon Levran provides an incisive investigation of the Second Gulf War and its strategic implications. He examines the Iraqi missile strikes against Israel and Israel's response, and considers the role of air power in winning the war. 184 pp. Published April 1997 £75.00 hardcover; £22.99 paperback

The National Security of Small States in a Changing World Collected essays from an April 1995 international conference cosponsored by the BESA Center and the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations of the Hebrew University, considering the relationship between small states and their large allies, in comparative perspective. In this volume, edited by Efraim Inbar & Gabriel Sheffer, scholars from a variety of disciplines address the following essential questions: what are the linkages between systematic features and the small states' environment; does the emerging international system augur well for small states; what can be expected of allies, big and small; what are the interactions between small states and regional organizations; what national strategies best serve the precarious survival of small states; and what are the appropriate defence policies in the changing technological and political environment? 232 pp. Published June 1997 £75.00 hardcover £22.99 paperback

Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East This volume is a special issue of the international journal Terrorism and Political Violence. This volume, edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman & Efraim Inbar, provides an in-depth political analysis of religious radicalism in the Greater Middle East--a recently defined area encompassing the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. The contributors represent various conceptual perspectives within the framework of political science, including international relations, Middle East studies and political sociology. 272 pp. Published Feb. 1997 £75.00 hardcover £22.99 paperback

Middle Eastern Security: Prospects for an Arms Control Regime A collection of essays from a BESA Center international conference examining the obstacles to an effective arms control regime in the Middle East and assesses the prospects of overcoming them. The first part of the book examines the role of the extra-regional actors: the United States, Western Europe and Russia. The second section analyzes the main issues on the arms control agenda: the proliferation of chemical and nuclear weapons and the spread of ballistic missiles. The book concludes by exploring the dynamics of the region and discusses the domestic aspects of strategic doctrines, the prospects of establishing confidence-building measures and the international context of a Middle Eastern arms control regime. Edited by Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler. Published May 1995 £75.00 hardcover £22.99 paperback