Contributors
- Contributors
Oz Almog is a lecturer in Sociology at Emek Jezreel College. He is author of The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew (Berkeley, CA, 2000) and “Shifting the Centre from Nation to Individual and Universe; the New ‘Democratic Faith’ of Israel”, Israel Affairs, 8, 1–2, 2002.
Eitan Bar-Yosef is a Lecturer at the Department of Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His recent publications include: “Painter or Hunter: Nahum Gutman, Lobengulu King of Zulu and the South-African Book,” Theory & Criticism, 20, 2002 [Hebrew]; “An Ocean of Soap and Water’: The Domestication of Imperial Imagery in Dombey and Son”, Dickens Quarterly, 19, 2002; “The Last Crusade? British Propaganda and the Palestine Campaign, 1917–1918,” Journal of Contemporary History, 36, 2001.
Assaf Meydani is a jurist and a doctoral Candidate at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, School of Management, Ben-Gurion University.
Shlomo Mizrahi is the Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Administration, School of Management, Ben-Gurion University. His recent publications include: “Maximizing Political Efficiency via Electoral Cycles: An Optimal Control Model”, co-authored with Arieh Gavious, European Journal of Operational Research, 141, 2002; “A Two-Level Analysis of Israel’s Strategy toward Peace during the 1990s”, co-authored with Abraham Mehrez and Arye Naor, Peace and Conflict Studies, 8, 2001.
Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Senior Fellow in Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and St. Antony’s Middle East Centre (Oxford University). His Recent Publications include: “Explaining Systemic Failure; the Direct Elections System and Israel’s Special Elections of February 2001”, Israel Affairs, 8.3, 2002 and, “Carl Schmitt and the Jewish Leviathan; the Supreme Court vs. the Sovereign Knesset, Israel Studies, 6.1, 2001. [End Page 151]
F. Michael Perko, S. J., is Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of Christianity and Culture at Loyola University, Chicago. His recent publications include: “Education, Socialization, and Development of National Identity; the American Common School and Israel Defense Forces in Transnational Perspective”, Shofar, 21.2, 2003; “Recent Vatican Diplomacy in the Middle East; an Historical Overview”, Israel Studies Bulletin, 16.2, 2001; “Toward a “Sound and Lasting Basis”; Relations Between the Holy See, the Zionist Movement, and Israel, 1896–1996”, Israel Studies, 2.1, 1997.
Zaki Shalom is Senior Fellow at the Ben-Gurion Research Center, Ben-Gurion University. His recent publications include: David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel and the Arab World 1949–1956 (Sde-Boker, 1995) [Hebrew]; Policy in The Shadow of Controversy: The Routine Security Policy 1949–1956 (Tel-Aviv, 1996) [Hebrew]; and, The Great Powers, Israel and the Future of Jordan 1961–1963: The Perils of the Pro-Nasser Policy (Sussex, UK, 2000).
Moshe Shemesh is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Senior Fellow at the Ben-Gurion Research Center. His publications include: The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956: Retrospective and Reappraisal, co-edited with S. Ilan Troen (London, 1990); The Palestinian Entity 1959–1974, (2nd revised edition) (London, 1996); and forthcoming in 2003, The Arab Israeli Conflict and the Emergence of the Palestinian National Movement [Hebrew].
