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Pre-Islamic Middle East
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective. He argues that there are a number of relatively constant environmental factors that have helped condition-not determine-the course of Middle Eastern political history from …
Making of a Pariah State
The Adventurist Politics of Muammar Qaddafi
Inbunden, 1987
880 kr
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The Making of a Pariah State takes the reader behind the flamboyance and apparent irrationality of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to expose his attempt to impose national cohesion on the Arab, Muslim, and Third World elements under his leadership. Addressed to the general reader interested in …
Judaic State
A Study in Rabbinic Political Theory
Inbunden, 1988
854 kr
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Rabbinic political thinking has a long and comparatively well documented history extending back to the biblical constitution in Deuteronomy. Though rabbinic political theory conventionally remains unrecognized by political scientists, the rise of religiously-based power in Israel demonstrates the …
Strategy of Russian Imperialism
Expansion in Eurasia Gorbachev
Inbunden, 1988
854 kr
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The USSR's different spheres of influence each present their own special problems. This is particularly true of areas outside Eastern Europe and areas non-contiguous with the borders of the USSR. Sicker defines and clarifies the two major Soviet perceptions of policy that radically differ from most …
Bear and the Lion
Soviet Imperialism and Iran
Inbunden, 1988
854 kr
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In his provocative analysis of Soviet goals in Southwest Asia, particularly Iran, Sicker argues that Soviet imperialism in this area exhibits a remarkable consistency from tsarist times to the present. Directly challenging prevailing beliefs of diminished Soviet interest in Iran or the Persian …
Israel's Quest for Security
Inbunden, 1989
1066 kr
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Written for students of Middle Eastern politics and other readers who seek to understand why a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict still seems so remote, this book examines how the question of physical security has constituted the most fundamental concern of Israel since the country came into …
Genesis of the State
Inbunden, 1990
854 kr
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Its existence is a reality of everyday life, yet the notion of the state is not well understood. How did the state originate and what is the source of its authority? This is the primary focus of Martin Sicker's Genesis of the State. Sicker does not consider this as just another academic question: …
Pangs of the Messiah
The Troubled Birth of the Jewish State
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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Sicker provides a synthesis from a wide range of sources that have not previously been integrated to present an unromanticized recapitulation of the events and personalities that led to the troubled birth of modern Israel. Much historical writing on modern Israel, Sicker asserts, is apologetic and …
Reshaping Palestine
From Muhammad Ali to the British Mandate, 1831-1922
Inbunden, 1999
1098 kr
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Sicker examines the early stages of the process by which Palestine, an obscure and relatively miniscule backwater of the Ottoman Empire, became a critical factor in the history and convoluted politics of the modern Middle East. In doing this, he describes relevant aspects of the history of …
Islamic World in Decline
From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
Inbunden, 2000
1066 kr
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The long era of Muslim political ascendancy that began in a small region of western Arabia reached its pinnacle some nine hundred years later with the siege of Vienna by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1529. Suleiman then concluded that, given the increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, Muslim …
Islamic World in Ascendancy
From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna
Inbunden, 2000
1066 kr
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In the view of Dr. Martin Sicker, it was with the emergence of Islam that the combination of geopolitics and religion reached its most volatile form and provided the ideological context for war and peace in the Middle East for more than a millennium. The conflation of geopolitics and religion in …
Middle East in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2001
1066 kr
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The geopolitical history of the Middle East in the twentieth century, which falls into three relatively distinct phases, is best understood when approached simultaneously from the global and the regional perspectives. The imperialist phase, which began in the nineteenth century and lasted until the …
Between Rome and Jerusalem
300 Years of Roman-Judaean Relations
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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Sicker sheds new light on the political circumstances surrounding the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. He places the 300-year history of Judaea from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba, 167 B.C.E.–135 C.E. in the context of Roman history and Judaea's geostrategic role in Rome's geopolitics …
Geopolitics of Security in the Americas
Hemispheric Denial from Monroe to Clinton
Inbunden, 2001
1066 kr
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Sicker examines the role of the United States within the Western Hemisphere and the geopolitical and geostrategic factors that have helped shape its policies in the region. He demonstrates that such factors have contributed heavily to establishing the patterns of state development and interstate …
Political Culture of Judaism
Inbunden, 2001
1066 kr
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Sicker examines the fundamental norms of civic conduct considered essential to the emergence and moral viability of the good society envisioned in the source documents and traditions of Judaism. The principles underlying the desired behavioral norms constitute the ethical underpinnings of the …
Political Culture of Judaism
Häftad, 2001
402 kr
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Sicker examines the fundamental norms of civic conduct considered essential to the emergence and moral viability of the good society envisioned in the source documents and traditions of Judaism. The principles underlying the desired behavioral norms constitute the ethical underpinnings of the …
Reading Genesis Politically
An Introduction to Mosaic Political Philosophy
Inbunden, 2002
1207 kr
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Sicker asserts that the Mosaic canon, the Pentateuch, is first and foremost a library of essentially political teachings and documents, and that the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis set forth in essence a general Mosaic political philosophy. These writings take a unique mythopoeic …
Orthocratic State
Inbunden, 2003
1066 kr
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Sicker argues that it is the achievement of orthocracy as the motivating concept of the state rather than democracy as its optimum form that is crucial for mankind in the 21st century, notwithstanding that the widespread adoption of substantive democracy may be the best currently conceivable means …
Rise and Fall of the Ancient Israelite States
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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By subjecting biblical writings to a political analysis, Sicker constructs a plausible political history of the ancient Israelite states that dealt with virtually every issue faced by governments throughout subsequent history. As he makes clear, the way they dealt with those issues, successfully or …
Introduction to Judaic Thought and Rabbinic Literature
Inbunden, 2007
713 kr
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Many people have heard the term Talmud but have little or no idea what it is, what it contains, and why it was written; moreover, few have ever actually looked into one of its works, and even fewer would make any sense of it if they did. Here, Sicker provides readers with insight into the nature …
Pre-Islamic Middle East
E-bok, 2000
1169 kr
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Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective. He argues that there are a number of relatively constant environmental factors that have helped condition -not determine-the course of Middle Eastern political history from …
Islamic World in Decline
From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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The long era of Muslim political ascendancy that began in a small region of western Arabia reached its pinnacle some nine hundred years later with the siege of Vienna by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1529. Suleiman then concluded that, given the increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, Muslim …
Islamic World in Ascendancy
From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna
E-bok, 2000
1169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the view of Dr. Martin Sicker, it was with the emergence of Islam that the combination of geopolitics and religion reached its most volatile form and provided the ideological context for war and peace in the Middle East for more than a millennium. The conflation of geopolitics and religion in …
Between Man and God
Issues in Judaic Thought
E-bok, 2001
1144 kr
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Sicker presents a personal attempt to come to grips with the awesome question, Where was God at Auschwitz? and with it some of the related central issues of Jewish thought and belief. There is a tendency among many writers of contemporary work of theology to argue that the very fact of the …
Reading Genesis Politically
An Introduction to Mosaic Political Philosophy
E-bok, 2002
1286 kr
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Sicker asserts that the Mosaic canon, the Pentateuch, is first and foremost a library of essentially political teachings and documents, and that the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis set forth in essence a general Mosaic political philosophy. These writings take a unique mythopoeic …
Political Economy of Work in the 21st Century
Implications for an Aging American Workforce
E-bok, 2002
1169 kr
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When Congress enacted Social Secuirty in 1935, with the age of retirement set at age 65, average life expectancy was 62 years. By the time Medicare was enacted 30 years later, life expectancy had risen to age 70. Since the enactment of Medicare, life expectancy has risen to age 76 today and may be …
Making of a Pariah State
The Adventurist Politics of Muammar Qaddafi
E-bok, 1987
963 kr
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The Making of a Pariah State takes the reader behind the flamboyance and apparent irrationality of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to expose his attempt to impose national cohesion on the Arab, Muslim, and Third World elements under his leadership. Addressed to the general reader interested in …
Orthocratic State
E-bok, 2003
1132 kr
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Sicker argues that it is the achievement of orthocracy as the motivating concept of the state rather than democracy as its optimum form that is crucial for mankind in the 21st century, notwithstanding that the widespread adoption of substantive democracy may be the best currently conceivable means …
Rise and Fall of the Ancient Israelite States
E-bok, 2003
1204 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By subjecting biblical writings to a political analysis, Sicker constructs a plausible political history of the ancient Israelite states that dealt with virtually every issue faced by governments throughout subsequent history. As he makes clear, the way they dealt with those issues, successfully or …
Between Rome and Jerusalem
300 Years of Roman-Judaean Relations
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Sicker sheds new light on the political circumstances surrounding the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. He places the 300-year history of Judaea from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba, 167 B.C.E.–135 C.E. in the context of Roman history and Judaea's geostrategic role in Rome's geopolitics …
