| 1 | Israel: An introduction |
 Horowitz, D., and Moshe Lissak. Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel. State University of New York Press, 1989, pp. 1-31. ISBN: 9780791401149. | |
| 2 | Zionism: Sources |
Shimoni, G. The Zionist Ideology. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 1995, pp. 12-51. ISBN: 9780874518337. Dowty, A. The Jewish State: A Century Later. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 34-60. ISBN: 9780520229112. Recommended Reading Stanislawski, Michael. Zionism and the Fin de Siecle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp. xiii-xxi, and 1-18. (G). ISBN: 9780520227880.
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| 3 | Zionist ideologies and the land of Israel |
Shimoni, G. The Zionist Ideology. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 1995, pp. 333-388. ISBN: 9780874518337. Recommended Reading Strenhell, Z. The Founding Myths of Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-46. (G). ISBN: 9780691009674. Laqueur, W. A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel. New York: Schoken Books, 2003, pp. 338-384. ISBN: 9780805211498. Aran, Gideon. "From Religious Zionism to Zionist Religion: The Roots of Gush Emunim." Doctoral Dissertation, Hebrew University, 1987.
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| 4 | Nation building and immigration |
Kimmerling, B. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 56-89. ISBN: 9780520246720. Arian, A. Politics in Israel: The Second Republic. Washington DC: CQ Press, 2004, pp. 23-34. ISBN: 9781568029320. Recommended Reading Dowty, A. "Israel's First Decade: Building a Civic State." In Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Edited by S. Ilan Troen, and Noah Lucas. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 31-50. (G). ISBN: 9780791422601.
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| 5 | Settlements and the Zionist project |
Troen, I. S. Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, pp. 3-14, and 62-84. ISBN: 9780300094831. Shafir, G. "Zionism and Colonialism: A Comparative Approach." In Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. Edited by Michael N. Barnet. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780791428320. Recommended Reading Yifatchel, O. Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 131-158. ISBN: 9780812239270. Ram, Uri. "The Colonization Perspective in Israeli Sociology: Internal and External Comparisons." Journal of Historical Sociology 6, no. 3 (2006): 327-350. (G) Aharonson, R. "Settlement in Eretz Israel, A Colonialist Enterprise? 'Critical' Scholarship and Historical Geography." Israel Studies 1, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 214-229. (G)
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| 6 | The Arab-Israeli conflict |
Smith, C. D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Boston: St. Martin's, 2009, pp. 190-201, 264-282, 311-320, and 437-457. ISBN: 9780312535018. Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 1948. The Palestinian National Charter, 1968. The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), 1988. Recommended Reading Bickerton, I. J. Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History. London: Reaktion Books, 2009, pp. 66-137. ISBN: 9781861895271. Rabinovich, I. Waging Peace: Israel and Arabs at the End of the Century. New-York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999, pp. 3-40. (G) ISBN: 9780374105761. Khalidi, R. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007, pp. 105-139. (G). ISBN: 9780807003091.
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| 7 | Israeli society: Cleavages |
Smooha, S. "Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel: A Deeply Divided Society." In Israeli Identity in Transition. Edited by Anita Shapria. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004, pp. 31-69. ISBN: 9780275976606. Recommended Reading Horowitz, Dan, and Moshe Lissak. Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989, pp. 32-99. (G). ISBN: 9780791401149. Grossman, D. Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993, pp. 80-100. ISBN: 9780312420970. Ghanem, A. The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000: A Political Study. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 11-27, and 36-38. (G). ISBN: 9780791449974. Cohen, Y., and Yitchak Haberfeld. "Second-Generation Jewish Immigrants in Israel: Have the Ethnic Gaps in Schooling d Earnings Declined?" Ethnic And Racial Studies 21, no. 3 (1998): 507-528. Gavison, R. "Jewish and Democratic? A Rejoinder to the 'Ethnic Democracy' Debate." Israel Studies 4, no. 1 (1999): 44-72.
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| 8 | Israel in the West Bank and Gaza |
Gordon, N. Israel's Occupation. Routledge, 2003, pp. 23-46. ISBN: 9780520255319. Sharon, A. "Why is Israel's Presence in the Territories Still Called Occupation?" JCPA, 2009. ( PDF) Recommended Reading Gazit, S. Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories. London: Frank Cass, 2003, pp. 241-288, and 333-341. (G). ISBN: 9780714683904. Troen, I. S. "Spearheads of the Zionist Frontier; Historical Perspectives on Post-1967 Settlement Planning in Judea and Samaria." Planning Perspectives 7 (January 1992): 81-100. (G)
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| 9 | Israel identity revisited: the post Zionist challenge |
Silberstein, L. J. The Postzionism Debate: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 89-126. Recommended Reading Judt, T. "Israel: The Alternative." New York Review of Books 50, no. 16 (October 23): 2003. (G) Wurmser, M. "Can Israel Survive Post-Zionism?" The Middle East Quarterly 6, no 1. (1999): 3-13. Morris, B. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xii-xxii, and 473-492. ISBN: 9780521009676. Gelber, Y. Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001, pp. 1-15, and 298-302. (G). ISBN: 9781845190750.
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| 10 | Foreign and security policy |
Inbar, E. "Israeli National Security 1973-1996." Annals of the American Academy of Political Science 555 (1998): 62-81. Neuman, D. "The Geographical and Territorial Imprint on the Security Discourse." In Security Concerns: Insights from the Israeli Experience. Edited by Daniel Bar-Tal, and D. Jacobson. Stanford: JAI Press, pp. 73-94. ISBN: 9780762304684. Freilich, C. D. "National Security Decision Making in Israel: Processes, Strengths and Pathologies." Middle East Journal 60, no. 4 (Autumn 2006): 635-663. Recommended Reading Bar Joseph, U. "Introduction. "In Israel's National Security Towards the 21st Century." London: Frank Cass, 2001, pp. 1-13. (G). ISBN: 9780714651699. Levite, E. Offense and Defense in Israeli Military Defense Doctrine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989. (G). ISBN: 9780813307206. Maoz, Z. Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006, pp. 3-46. ISBN: 9780472033416.
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| 11 | Israeli economy |
Zilberfarb. B. "From Socialism to Free Market — The Israeli Economy, 1948-2003." Israel Affairs 11, no. 1 (January 2005): 12–22. Shalev, Michael. "Have Globalization and Liberalization 'Normalized' Israel's Political Economy?" In Israel: Dynamics of Change and Continuity. Edited by David Levi-Faur, Gabriel Sheffer, and David Vogel. London: Frank Cass: 1999, pp. 121-155. ISBN: 9780714680620. Recommended Reading Arian, A. Politics in Israel: The Second Republic. Washington DC: CQ, 2005, pp. 48-82. (G)
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| 12 | Israeli culture |
Almog, Oz. The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew. Berkeley: California University Press, 2000, pp. 1-22. ISBN: 9780520216426. Recommended Reading Regev, M., and Edwin Seroussi. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004, pp. 1-45. (G). ISBN: 9780520236547. Smooha, S. "Is Israel Western?" In Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogeneity; Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, and Yitzak Sternberng. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. (G). ISBN: 9789004144071.
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| 13 | Israel: A comparative perspective |
Barnett, M. "The Politics of Uniqueness: The Status of the Israeli Case." In Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. Edited by Michael Barnett. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996, pp. 3-28. ISBN: 9780791428320. Troen, I. "Frontier Myths and Their Applications in America and Israel; A Trans-National Perspective." Journal of American History Perspective 86, no. 3 (1999): 1209-1230. Recommended Reading Lustick, I. Unsettled States: Disputed Land: Britain in Ireland, France in Algeria, and Israel in the West Bank and Gaza. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 385-438. (G). ISBN: 9780801480881. Merom G. "Israel's National Security and the Myth of Exceptionalism." Political Science Quarterly 114, no. 3 (1999): 409-434. (PDF)
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