The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian PeaceState University of New York Press, 1. 2. 2012 - 244 strán (strany) The International Self explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing adversaries to seek peace? Mira M. Sucharov employs a socio-psychoanalytic model to argue that collective identity ultimately shapes foreign policy and policy change. Specifically, she shows that all states possess a distinctive role-identity that tends to shape behavior in the international realm. When policy deviates too greatly from the established role-identity, the population experiences cognitive dissonance and expresses this through counternarratives—an unconscious representation of what the polity collectively fears in itself—propelling political elites to realign the state's policy with its identity. Focusing on Israel's decision to embark on negotiations leading to the 1993 agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Sucharov sees this policy reversal as a reaction to the unease generated by two events in the 1980s—the war in Lebanon and the first Palestinian Intifada—that contradicted Israelis' perceptions of their state as a "defensive warrior." Her argument bridges the fields of conflict resolution, Middle East studies, and international relations. |
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... University; Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University and the Harry S. Truman Institute, and specifically Edy Kaufman and Emanuel Adler. Heartfelt thanks also goes to the many Israeli political, military and cul- tural figures who ...
... University; Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University and the Harry S. Truman Institute, and specifically Edy Kaufman and Emanuel Adler. Heartfelt thanks also goes to the many Israeli political, military and cul- tural figures who ...
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... academic . From a popular perspective , the Judeo - Christian tradition underpinning Western culture means that Israel / Palestine has held par- ticular resonance within the popular imagination — from Mark Twain's famous voyage to the ...
... academic . From a popular perspective , the Judeo - Christian tradition underpinning Western culture means that Israel / Palestine has held par- ticular resonance within the popular imagination — from Mark Twain's famous voyage to the ...
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... academic and other works—both inside and outside of Israel—chronicling the opera- tions and their social and political consequences. Third, there is large within-case variation on the dependent variable: Israeli-Palestinian relations ...
... academic and other works—both inside and outside of Israel—chronicling the opera- tions and their social and political consequences. Third, there is large within-case variation on the dependent variable: Israeli-Palestinian relations ...
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3 The Israeli Self | 41 |
4 The Security Ethic of the IDF | 69 |
5 Israel and the Lebanon War | 89 |
6 Israel and the Intifada | 113 |
7 From Dissonance to Rightsizing Israels Path to Oslo | 137 |
8 Conclusion | 157 |
Notes | 171 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 223 |
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