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>> xi Acknowledgments I am indebted to a large number of people and institutions for help with this book. I thank my colleagues who commented on various parts of the book: Aluf Benn, Jonathan Caverley, Stuart Cohen, Yinon Cohen, Tamar Hermann, Gur Huberman, Jef Huysmans, Engin Isin, Xavier Guillaume, Ronald Krebs, Zeev Lerer, Edna-Lomsky-Feder, Oded Löwenheim, Zeev Maoz, Gil Merom, Yoram Peri, Uri Ram, Zeev Rosenhek, Orna Sasson-Levy, Gabi Sheffer, Yehouda Shenhav, Sidney Tarrow, Erez Tzfadia, and especially Eyal Ben-Ari, Sara Helman, Paul Vasquez, and my late mentor, Asher Arian. Different parts of this book were presented at various workshops, seminars , and conferences. For their invitations and criticism, I am thankful to the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Workshop: Practices of Citizenship and the Politics of (In)security; the Department of Government at Georgetown Univeristy; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the IDF Behavioral Sciences Center; the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University; the Israel Democracy Institute; the Open University of Israel; Sapir College; the Shalom Hartman Institute; Tel Aviv-Jaffa College; and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. I would also like to thank these journal editors who offered detailed comments on early drafts of some parts of the book: Robbie Lieberman, Peter Nyers, Glenn Palmer, William R. Thompson, Douglas Van Belle, and Patricia M. Shields. I am particularly grateful to the Open University of Israel for its financial support and to the Israel Science Foundation for funding part of the research on which chapter 6 is based. Finally, I thank New York University Press and its editorial staff for publishing this book: Deborah Gershenowitz, my editor, for her strong support, Constance Grady, editorial assistant; Alexia Traganas, the editing and production assistant; and Jerilyn Famighetti, the copyeditor, whose committed work on this book has gone far beyond their editorial duties. Last but not least, thanks are also extended to the series editor, Wayne E. Lee, for having faith in this book. This page intentionally left blank ...

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