Suchergebnisse

The Israeli—Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable conflicts in the world today. During the period of the 1990s and early 2000s, its salience was especially high. In this article, we explore the role of elections in the conflict, focusing on deliberation, legitimation, and representation. We analyze the five Israeli elections between 1992 and 2003. Our findings raise significant doubts as to the quality of deliberation on the conflict in these five election campaigns, and suggest that the campaigns and election interpretations did not contribute to legitimation of policy in this area beyond procedural legitimacy. Nevertheless, the elections had a major impact in molding the conflict through their role in transferring power and in producing dynamic representation. Although our focus is on a single case, this article falls within the body of empirical research about elections as instruments of democracy and their role in shaping the course of international conflicts.

Analyzes the process leading to the accord, obstacles to interim self government, and prospects for final status arrangements.

Aus israelischer Sicht

The history of Israel has often been a history of conflict. A partial list includes the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that followed Israel's birth, the Israeli–British–French attempt in 1956 to seize the Suez Canal and topple ...

The aim of this article is to examine Israeli-South African relations and to see whether there is any correlation between these and the state of Afro-Israeli relations; implications for Afro-Israeli relations of the Camp David Summit in 1978 and the consequent signing of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel; the links between Israel and South Africa are likely to remain an important factor in Afro-Israeli relations