Franco-Israeli Relations, 1958-1967

Franco-Israeli Relations, 1958-1967
Author: Gadi Heimann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317068297

Since the Sinai campaign, France had been Israel's ally, providing advanced weapons and granting political support and economic aid. When Charles de Gaulle returned to lead France in 1958 during the Algerian War, Israeli leadership faced a challenge to maintain the friendship in light of the President's insistence on re-establishing French influence in the Arab world. This book discusses their efforts and examines de Gaulle's uncompromising pursuit of French grandeur and the ramifications of this for the State of Israel.

Routledge Handbook on Israel's Foreign Relations

Routledge Handbook on Israel's Foreign Relations
Author: Joel Peters
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1003833438

This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of contemporary Israeli diplomacy and analyses the changing dynamics of Israel’s bilateral relations with other states and the international community over the past seventy-five years. Research into Israeli foreign policy has been largely sidelined by debates over security, domestic politics and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This Handbook addresses the gap in the literature. Comprising 31 essays written by leading scholars of Israel, the Handbook explicates how domestic, societal and economic interests, together with changing Israeli narratives of identity and location, shape and impact Israeli foreign policy. It illustrates how those factors have influenced foreign policy choices and the instruments – economic cooperation, arms sales, military training, and intelligence sharing – that Israel has utilized in order to promote its interests and build relationships with countries and actors throughout the world. Ultimately, the Handbook refutes Kissinger’s famous dictum that Israel has no foreign policy, and instead follows the whims of its domestic politics. By contrast, this Handbook highlights the rich, diverse and changing tapestry of Israel’s foreign relations. Written in an accessible style, the book is designed for students taking courses in Israel studies and Middle Eastern studies, as well as a general readership interested in Israeli affairs.

Zionism

Zionism
Author: Derek J. Penslar
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2023-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813576113

Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust, and those who reject it are no less passionate than those who embrace it. The power of such emotions helps explain why a word originally associated with territorial aspiration has survived so many years after the establishment of the Israeli state. Zionism: An Emotional State expertly demonstrates how the energy propelling the Zionist project originates from bundles of feeling whose elements have varied in volume, intensity, and durability across space and time. Beginning with an original typology of Zionism and a new take on its relationship to colonialism, Penslar then examines the emotions that have shaped Zionist sensibilities and practices over the course of the movement’s history. The resulting portrait of Zionism reconfigures how we understand Jewish identity amidst continuing debates on the role of nationalism in the modern world.

Israel’s Path to Europe

Israel’s Path to Europe
Author: Gadi Heimann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351258427

Relations between the new state of Israel and the European Union in the first twenty years of the Community’s existence were a major policy issue given the background of the Holocaust and the way the new nation was established. This book focuses on Israel-European Community relations from 1957 to 1975 - from the signing of the Treaty of Rome (1957), which officially established the Common Market, to the conclusion of Israel’s Free Trade Agreement with the Community. It reveals a new and key facet of Israeli diplomacy during the country's infancy, joining the many studies concerning Israel's relations with the United States, France, Germany and Britain.

Europe and America

Europe and America
Author: Federiga Bindi
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0815732813

“America First” is “America Alone” Foreign policy is like physics: vacuums quickly fill. As the United States retreats from the international order it helped put in place and maintain since the end of World War II, Russia is rapidly filling the vacuum. Federiga Bindi’s new book assesses the consequences of this retreat for transatlantic relations and Europe, showing how the current path of US foreign policy is leading to isolation and a sharp decrease of US influence in international relations. Transatlantic relations reached a peak under President Barack Obama. But under the Trump administration, withdrawal from the global stage has caused irreparable damage to the transatlantic partnership and has propelled Europeans to act more independently. Europe and America explores this tumultuous path by examining the foreign policy of the United States, Russia, and the major European Union member states. The book highlights the consequences of US retreat for transatlantic relations and Europe, demonstrating that “America first” is becoming “America alone,” perhaps marking the end of transatlantic relations as we know it, with Europe no longer beholden to the US national interest.

German Reunification

German Reunification
Author: Joyce E. Bromley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351987739

In 1945, German families with more than 100 hectares (247 acres) of land were forced from their homes in the eastern sector by the Soviets, now in control of that area. These families were brutally evicted from their property and had their land expropriated. In the next 45 years, the GDR government would come to control all of the agricultural land. At reunification in 1990, the earlier abuse of these farmers was compounded when the German government would not restore any of this expropriated land to these families. The German government falsely accused the Soviet Union of insisting on non-restitution as a condition of reunification. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev unequivocally denies this claim and insists that land issues are a German problem to resolve. The temporary land-trust agency, established by the German government in 1990 to dispose of land it inherited from the GDR, continues to exist. After 25 years, this agency still holds almost 20 percent of this expropriated land. Its agents, most of whom were reared in GDR, decide who may (or may not) lease land, the conditions of the lease, and if and when a farmer may buy land – circumstances that remain deeply controversial. Joyce Bromley draws on extensive field research, and previously untapped sources, to explore the reliability of the government’s version of these important events. Is the German government once again, without shame, discriminating against a group of its own citizens?

Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands

Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands
Author: Jason B. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351811045

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.

Oil Exploration, Diplomacy, and Security in the Early Cold War

Oil Exploration, Diplomacy, and Security in the Early Cold War
Author: Roberto Cantoni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315531518

The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War. This volume argues that the confidential acquisition of geoscientific knowledge was paramount for states, not only to provide for their own energy needs, but also to buttress national economic and geostrategic interests and protect energy security. By investigating the postwar rebuilding and expansion of French and Italian oil industries from the second half of the 1940s to the early 1960s, this book shows how successive administrations in those countries devised strategies of oil exploration and transport, aiming at achieving a higher degree of energy autonomy and setting up powerful oil agencies that could implement those strategies. However, both within and outside their national territories, these two European countries had to confront the new Cold War balances and the interests of the two superpowers.

Order and Insecurity in Germany and Turkey

Order and Insecurity in Germany and Turkey
Author: Emre Sencer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315443260

This book examines processes of military, political and cultural transformation from the perspective of officers in two countries: Germany and Turkey in the 1930s. The national fates of both countries interlocked during the Great War years and their close alliance dictated their joint defeat in 1918. While the two countries were manifestly different in their politics and culture, both had lost the war and both went through powerful changes in its immediate aftermath. They painted themselves as the victims of a new imperialist order, whose chief representatives were Britain and France. The result was a radical militarism that unleashed violent currents in these countries – developments that were to be more transformative than the impact of the war experience itself.

Resistance Heroism and the End of Empire

Resistance Heroism and the End of Empire
Author: Keren Chiaroni
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315396092

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Portrait of a rebel -- Notes -- 1 Dramatis personae -- Émile and Armande -- The paternal branch -- The maternal branch -- Éluard and Picasso: poetry and a portrait -- Marriage and motherhood: Pierre and Fabienne -- Recovery of mind: Lebovici and Kestemberg -- Watch and tell: Louis Aragon, Gaston Monmousseau, Andre Stil, Étienne Fajon and Nguyên Dinh Thi -- Notes -- 2 Defining features: Riffaud and the Resistance -- Resistance as a philosophy of life: the duty to disobey -- Life in the occupied zone -- The sanatorium of Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet -- 1941-1943 Paris: the 'Francs-Tireurs et Partisans' and the 'army of crime' -- 1944: the shooting of a German officer - absolute revolt and its consequences -- 'To the Barricades!' The siege of the Place de la République and the liberation of a city -- Uniforms, medals and a rebel army -- Notes -- 3 Vietnam: A love story -- 'Il faut regarder!': the Gestapo order that motivated a career -- Ho Chi Minh at Fontainebleau: an open invitation -- Berlin 1951: the 'Vietnamese Gregory Peck' -- 1954: Dien Bien Phu, the Geneva Agreement and the withdrawal of French troops -- 1955: the beginning and end of a 'belle histoire' -- 1964: in the jungle with the maquis Viet Cong -- 'Armées de l'air': killer bees and the bombing raids on village schools -- 1966: the Camlo air raids and reunion with Nguyen Thi -- 1969: the death of Ho Chi Minh - a tribute and three testaments -- The Association of Friends of Vietnam and France -- Notes -- 4 Algeria and France: A crime passionnel -- Introduction -- The Alger républicain, 1952 -- 'Orleansville SOS' and the Toussaint Rebellion of 1954