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Scholarly Articles

  • "Israeli-Turkish Tensions and their International Ramifications," Orbis, Vol. 55, No. 1 (February 2011)
  • "The Challenges of the Netanayahu Government," Journal for Politics and Contemporary History/Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (German - February 2010)
  • Israeli-Turkish Tensions and Beyond", Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 2010)
  • "The Decline of the Labour Party," Israel Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2010)
  • "The Rise and Demise of the Two-State Paradigm," Orbis, 53 (Spring 2009)
  • "Israeli-Turkish Tensions and Beyond," Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2009)
  • "How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War", Middle East Quarterly, (Summer 2007)
  • "Israel's Palestinian Challenge," Israel Affairs, Vol. 12, No.4 (October 2006)
  • "Israel: An Enduring Union," The Journal of International Security Affairs, No. 11 (Fall 2006)
  • "The Resilience of Israeli-Turkish Relations," Israel Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 4, (October 2005)
  • "Israel-Turqois," Outre-Terre. Revue Francaise de Geopolitique, No. 8, (February 2005)
  • "The Indian-Israeli Entente," Orbis, 48 (Winter 2004)
  • "The Regional Implications of the Israeli-Turkish Strategic Partnership," Turkish Studies, 3 (Autumn 2002). (Updated Hebrew version appeared in Politika [December 2003]).
  • "Israel's Strategic Environment in the 1990s," Journal of Strategic Studies, 25 (March 2002).
  • "Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Imperative for Cooperation among Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Turkey," Middle East Quarterly, 8 (Spring 2001). (co-authored with Shmuel Sandler).
  • "Arab-Israeli Coexistence: Causes, Achievements and Limitations," Israel Affairs, 6 (Summer 2000).
  • "Israeli National Security, 1973-1996," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 558 (January 1998).
  • "Positions on National Security of Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Political Leadership," Journal of Developing Societies, 13 (Autumn 1997). (Co-authored with Gad Barzilai and Giora Goldberg).
  • "Netanyahu Takes Over," Israel Affairs, 4 (Fall 1997).
  • "The Risks of Palestinian Statehood," Survival, 39 (Summer 1997) (co-authored with Shmuel Sandler).
  • "Yitzhak Rabin and Israel's National Security," Journal of Strategic Studies, 20 (June 1997).
  • "The Use of Force: Israeli Public Opinion on Military Options," Armed Forces and Society, 23 (Fall 1996) (co-authored with Gad Barzilai).
  • "Islamic Extremism and the Peace Process," Terrorism and Political Violence, 8 (Summer 1996).
  • "Arms Control and the New Middle East Environment," Defense Analysis, 12 (Spring 1996) (co-authored with Efraim Karsh and Shmuel Sandler).
  • "Contours of Israeli New Strategic Thinking," Political Science Quarterly, 111 (Spring 1996).
  • "Israel's Security in a New International Environment," Israel Affairs, 2 (Autumn 1995) (An abridged version of "Israel's Predicament in a New Strategic Environment," in Efraim Inbar and Gabriel Sheffer, eds., The National Security of Small States in a Changing World (London: Frank Cass, 1997).
  • "The Negotiations with Syria," Israel Affairs, 1 (Summer 1995).
  • "The Politics of a Mideast Arms Control Regime," Contemporary Security Policy, 16 (April 1995) (Co-authored with Shmuel Sandler.) [Reprinted in Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler, eds., Mideast Security. Prospects for an Arms Control Regime (London: Frank Cass, 1995).]
  • "The Changing Israeli Strategic Equation: Toward a Security Regime," Review of International Studies, 21 (January 1995) (Co-authored with Shmuel Sandler).
  • "Israel's Continuous National Security Challenges," Strategic Review, 22 (Winter 1995).
  • "Israel's Deterrence Strategy Revisited," Security Studies, 3 (Winter 1993/94). (Co-authored with Shmuel Sandler.)
  • "Israel's Strategic Environment," Strategic Review, 20 (Fall 1992).
  • "Israel and Arms Control," Arms Control, 13 (September 1992).
  • "Do Wars Have an Impact? Israeli Public Opinion After the Gulf War," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, 14 (March 1992). (Co-authored with Gad Barzilai.)
  • "Israel's Small War: The Military Reaction to the Intifada," Armed Forces and Society, 18 (Fall 1991). [Reprinted in Ian S. Lustick, ed., Arab-Israeli Relations, vol. 4 (Hamden: Garland, 1994).]
  • "Israeli Leadership and Public Attitudes toward Federal Solutions for the Arab-Israeli Conflict Before and After Desert Storm," Publius, 21 (Summer 1991). (Co-authored with Gad Barzilai and Giora Goldberg.)
  • "American-Israeli Relations: Past and Future - A Review Article," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, 13 (June 1991).
  • "A Taxonomy of Israel's Use of Military Force," Comparative Strategy, 10 (April 1991). (Co-authored with Stuart A. Cohen).
  • "Varieties of Counter-Insurgency Activities: Israel's Military Operations Against the Palestinians, 1948-90," Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2 (April 1991). (Co-authored with Stuart A. Cohen.)
  • "Great Power Mediation: The USA and the May 1983 Israeli-Lebanese Agreement," Journal of Peace Research, 28 (February 1991).
  • The Impact of Intercommunal Conflict: The Intifada and Israeli Public Opinion, Policy Studies * 43, (Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, The Hebrew University, 1991). (Co-authored with Gad Barzilai and Giora Goldberg.)
  • "Jews, Jewishness and Israel's Foreign Policy," Jewish Political Studies Review, 2 (Fall 1990).
  • "Attitudes Toward War in the Israeli Political Elite," Middle East Journal, 44 (Summer 1990).
  • "Is Israel's Political Elite Becoming More Hawkish?" International Journal, 45 (Summer 1990). (The second author is Giora Goldberg.)
  • "The Israeli Navy," Naval War College Review, 43 (Winter 1990).
  • "The Jewish Dimension in the Teaching of International Relations," Jewish Political Studies Review, 1 (Fall 1989).
  • "The 'No Choice War' Debate in Israel," Journal of Strategic Studies, 11 (March 1989). [Reprinted in Ian S. Lustick, ed., Arab-Israeli Relations, vol. 7 (Hamden: Garland, 1994), and in Benyamin Neuberger, ed., War and Peace. Selected Issues Israel's Foreign Relations (Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Open University, 1993)].
  • "The Nuclearization of the Middle East - A Review Article," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, 10 (June 1988).
  • The Outlook on War of the Political Elite in the Eighties, Policy Studies *23 (Hebrew) (Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988).
  • "War and Jewish Tradition," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, 9 (June 1987).
  • "Sources of Tension Between Israel and the United States," Conflict Quarterly, 4 (Spring 1984).
  • "The Emergence of Pariah States in World Politics," Korean Journal of International Relations, 15 (Winter 1983/84).
  • "Israel and Lebanon: 1975-1982," Crossroads, 10 (Spring 1983).
  • "Israeli Strategic Thinking After 1973," Journal of Strategic Studies, 6 (March 1983). [Reprinted in Benyamin Neuberger, ed., War and Peacemaking. Selected Issues in Israel's Foreign Relations (Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Open University, 1993).]
  • "Israel's New Military Doctrine," Naval War College Review, 36 (January - February 1983).
  • "The American Arms Transfer to Israel," Middle East Review, 15 (Winter 1982/83).
  • "The Israeli Basement - With Bombs or Without?," Crossroads, 8 (Winter - Spring 1982).
  • "The Hebrew Dayschools - The Orthodox Communal Challenge," The Journal of Ethnic Studies, 7 (May 1979).