The Making of an Alliance

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-44588-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' relations between Israel and the United States. Questioning the usual neo-realist approach to understanding this relationship, David Tal instead suggests that the relations between the two nations were constructed on idealism, political culture, and strategic ties. Based on a diverse range of primary sources collected in archives in both Israel and the United States, The Making of an Alliance discusses the development of relations built through constant contact between people and ideas, showing how presidents and Prime Ministers, state officials, and ordinary people from both countries, impacted one another. It was this constancy of religion, values, and history, serving the bedrock of the relations between the two countries and peoples, over which the ephemeral was negotiated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tal, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The sources of the American support for Zionism; 2. Friendship: from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman; 3. Friendly impartiality, 1949–1958; 4. Strategic change 1958–1968; 5. From friendship to strategic alliance, 1969–1989; 6. Friendship and strategic alliance.

Über Autor(innen)

Tal, David
David Tal is Professor and Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. An historian of diplomatic and military history, he has published extensively on Israeli diplomatic and military history, and US diplomatic history and disarmament policies. He is the author of books including Israel's Conception of Current Security: Origins and Development 1949-1956 (1998), War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy (2004), The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945–1963 (2008), and US Strategic Arms Policy in the Cold War: Negotiation and Confrontation over SALT, 1969–79 (2017). He is the editor of The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East (2001) and Israeli Identity: Between Orient and Occident (2004).