Although a rich literature combining international relations and domestic political developments has recently emerged, most works specializing in state-minority relations, nationalism, citizenship and human rights have not integrated insights from the field of international relations and security affairs into their analysis. This absence is nowhere more visible than in the study of relations between the Israeli state and its Arab/Palestinian minority. This book aims to bring (back) international relations and international security perspectives into the analysis of relations between the Israeli state and its Arab minority. Drawing on international relations theory, it argues that the relationship between the Israeli state and the predominant community, as in many other cases characterized by ethno-national cleavage, was heavily influenced by the state's broader regional geo-strategic security situation. State policies toward Israel's Arab citizens moderated in the rare times of relative geo-strategic security and hardened when Israel's regional position became more precarious.
• One of the few books focusing on the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minorities that draws on international relations theory • The book should be of interest then to the many more general scholars who are interested in the relationship between foreign affairs and domestic politics, especially regarding minorities, as well as students of ethnicity and nationalism • The book is jargon-free and therefore attractive to the educated layman and undergraduate student
Contents
1. Israel and its Arab citizens: perspectives and argument; 2. Israel's security profile and state-minority relations: an historical overview; 3. State policies towards Israel's Palestinians; 4. The domestic politics of Israel's Arab citizens; 5. Extra-parliamentary organizations, patterns of protest and terrorism; 6. Israeli Arab identity: commemorating the nabka; 7. The PLO, the PA, and Israel's Arab citizens; 8. Identifying with the enemy: Israel's Arab citizens and the Arab world; 9. Israeli Arab political demands and Israeli security; 10. Conclusion.
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