Historical Schools and Political Science: An Arab-Israeli History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

In: Perspectives on politics, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 577-582

Abstract

In "Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Perspectives
on Politics 3:1), Jonathan B. Isacoff does a great service by
bringing together the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the study of
international relations (IR). All too often, political scientists shy away
from the ongoing conflict and the heat such work could generate on campus.
At the same time, Isacoff's application of his multiple-schools model
reveals some limitations with respect to political scientists' use of
history generally and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. In this
essay, I note four areas where his argument merits further scrutiny.