In this provocative and deeply informed book, Goodman shares his clarifying analyses both of recent political events and of Israel's strategic position. He shows how the country's obsession with dangers posed by outside forces has obscured the harder issues facing it from within ever since its leaders disregarded Ben Gurion's advice to leave the territories captured during the Six Day War. By y…
Shedding light on the recent mutations of the Israeli separation policy, whose institutional and spatial configurations are increasingly complex, this book argues that this policy has actually reinforced the interconnectedness of Israelis and Palestinian lives and their spaces. Instead of focusing on the over-mediatized separation wall, this book deals with what it hides: its shadows. Based on …
This textbook is devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict one of the most protracted of modern times. It has already lasted more than 110 years a bitter struggle, involving states, peoples, movements and individuals. It has manifested itself in wars, revolts, uprisings, massacres and various types of violence and terror. It has involved the historical ingathering of a people to a land they regard a…
The editors and more than 100 contributors, all British academics, have compiled some 400 brief biographies of French politicians, writers, and thinkers who have left their imprint on the political life of modern France (1870-present). The body of the work, an alphabetical list, is preceded by a brief preface, a list of the biographies (without dates), and notes on contributors. Appendixes list…
The purpose of the 1990-1991 Indonesian Festival in the United States was to provide the American public, through art performances and exhibitions, with a glimpse of Indonesia’s cultural diversity. No picture of a nation is complete, however, without a look at its literature. And that is the premise behind this collection of contemporary Indonesian short stories. Foreign lovers of Indonesian …
Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary World gives a concise, original and multi-faceted introduction to the study of modern conflict situations. Using eight case- studies, from four continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern Ireland, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it includes discussion on: - threatened regional peace and security - cycles of internal dis…
In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guid…
Chung Kuo is the epic story of this "War of Two Directions" - a grand conflict between the Western idea of progress and the Eastern belief in stability. In its pages we follow the fortunes of four young men from all walks of Chung Kuo society - from the son of a T'ang to a slave born in the rubble beneath the city's foundations - and it is their strengths, dreams, passions, and struggles that m…
In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guid…
The novel centers on the Noli-El fili duology's main character Crisóstomo Ibarra, now returning for vengeance as "Simoun". The novel's dark theme departs dramatically from the previous novel's hopeful and romantic atmosphere, signifying Ibarra's resort to solving his country's issues through violent means, after his previous attempt in reforming the country's system made no effect and seemed i…