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Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking

Miriam F. Elman

Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.

December 31, 2014

See related: Government, Middle East & North Africa

The Empire That Wasn't: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany’s Global Ambitions

Brian Brege
December 31, 2014

The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

Dennis C. Rasmussen
December 31, 2014

Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia

Tom Perreault
December 31, 2014

Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs

Madonna Harrington Meyer
December 31, 2014

See related: Gender and Sex

Judicial Politics in Polarized Times

Thomas M. Keck
December 31, 2014

Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict

Michael J. Williams
December 31, 2014

Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

W. Henry Lambright
December 31, 2014

The Realism Reader

Colin Elman
December 31, 2014

Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century

Michael O’Hanlon, James B. Steinberg
The authors propose a set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national interests, including, in the case of the United States, its commitments to regional allies.
December 31, 2014

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