This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Israel, accounting for changes, developments and contemporary debates. The different chapters offer both a historical background and an updated analysis of politics, economy, society and culture.
Across five sections, a multidisciplinary group of experts, including sociologists, political scientists, historians and social scientists, engage in a wide variety of topics through different perspectives and insights. The book opens with a historical section outlining the formation of Israel and Jewish nationalism. The second section examines contemporary institutions in Israel, their developments and the contemporary challenges they face in light of social, economic, political and cultural changes. The third section explores geopolitics and Israel's foreign relations, exploring conflicts, alliances and foreign policy with neighbors and powers. The fourth section engages with Israel's internal divisions and schisms, highlighting questions of identity and inequality while also outlining processes of integration and marginalization between groups. The final section explores matters of culture, through the social and demographic shifts in contemporary music, poetry and cuisine, along with the struggles for inclusion and the impact of globalization on Israeli culture.
The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel is designed for academics along with undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on Israel, Israeli politics, and culture and society in modern Israel.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction, Part 1: Historical Overview, 1. Zionism between Despair and Hope, 2. Mamlakhtiyut: The Zionist and Israeli version of Republicanism, 3. Melting Pot and Plurality of Cultures in Early Israel, 4. The Palestinian National Movement: A Short History, 5. Israel's Foreign Policy: The Historical Mound, Part 2: Institutions, 6. The Political System and Political Parties, 7. Israeli Organized Civil Society: Trends and Challenges of the Nonprofit Sector, 8. Major Contemporary Trends in Civil-Military Relations in Israel, 9. Israel's Legal System: Institutions, Principles and Challenges, 10. The Israeli Education System, 11. How the people of the book became the people of the media: The Israeli media landscape, Part 3: Foreign Relations and Policy, 12. Israel and the Palestinians, 13. Israel and the Arab World - from War to Peacemaking, 14. The Special Relationship between the United States and Israel, 15. The Rubik's cube of Israeli-European Union relations, 16. Israel-Russia Bilateral Relations: Market Rationality and Political Affinity, 17. Better Late than Never: China-Israel Diplomatic Relations in Perspective, Part 4: Divisions and Schisms, 18. Leadership Legitimacy, Responsiveness and Representation in Palestinian Society in Israel, 19. Religious Zionism - Romantic Religious Nationalism in Israel, 20. Religion in Contemporary Israel: Haredi Varieties, 21. Israel: Between Religion and Secularism, 22. Haredism vs. Traditionalism: A New Reading of Mizrahi Religious Politics at the Start of the 21st Century, 23. The Ethiopian Jews in Israel, 24. Acculturation as a two-way process: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel, 25. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Gender Relations in Contemporary Israel, 26. Paradoxes of control: Incorporating precarious migrants in Tel Aviv in times of restrictive migration policies, 27. Demographic Trends in Israel, 28. Israel's Economic Development - an overview, 29. The Israeli Labor Market, 30. The Startup Nation: Myths and Reality, 31. Neoliberalization of Welfare and Social Protest, 32. Peripheralities, Part 5: Culture, 33. Desert, Hill, and Sea: Cinematic Visions and Re-Visions of War, 34. Bass and Silsulim: Israeli Music after muzika Mizrahit, 35. Who Killed Poetry? An Israeli Perspective, 36. Large, Cheap and Mizrahi ("Oriental"): Israeli Cuisine
