25% Off Pre-Order Books with Code: PREORDER25 for Premium & Reward Members Shop Now

Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza

Add to Wishlist

Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza

eBook

$112.99 ~~$150.00~~ Save 25%

View All Available Formats & Editions

eBook
$112.99 ~~$150.00~~ Save 25% Current price is $112.99, Original price is $150. You Save 25%.

View All Available Formats & Editions

Available on Compatible NOOK devices, the free NOOK App and in My Digital Library.

WANT A NOOK? Explore Now

Buy As Gift

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501731945
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	07/05/2018
Series:	The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	576
Lexile:	1800L (what's this?)
File size:	62 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ian S. Lustick is Richard L. Simon Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

From the B&N Reads Blog

Page 1 of

Editorial Reviews

Lustick is a distinguished professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has published several works on Israel. In this significant scholarly book, he expands his analysis of Israel to include the French colonial experience in Algeria and the British experience in Ireland. Using these three case studies, Lustick formulates a theory of state expansion and contraction that moves beyond the ideas of states being fixed in their borders and expanding through imperial conquest, or contracting through a cost-benefit calculation of the burdens of imperial control. He argues instead that there are stages of expansion and contraction that move across critical thresholds, which have greater or lesser impact on the regimes or states, institutions, values, and elites. Lustick assesses Ireland, Algeria, and Palestine in terms of this theory, providing a most informative analysis. His work will be of significant value to students of comparative politics. Highly recommended for academic history and political science collections.-- Richard B. Finnegan, Stonehill Coll., North Easton, Mass.

Library Journal

A pathbreaking study--carried out over a decade and a half--analyzing the processes, policies, and factors involved when states incorporate additional territories, and when they relinquish control over territories. The initial impetus for the analysis was the relationship of Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the theory was developed by comparing the changing relationships of Britain to Ireland (1834-1922) and France to Algeria (1936-62). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

In a major study that moves between path-breaking theorizing and analysis that is relevant to today's headlines, the author examines the process by which states expand and contract.... He develops a useful model of state expansion and contraction, focusing on how the issue of incorporating outlying territories is dealt with in the political arena.... While written before the recent Israeli-PLO agreement, this book has been made more, not less, timely by events that could only be guessed at when the author was writing this stimulating, often difficult, but ultimately very rewarding study.

Foreign Affairs

Ian Lustick... has written a valuable study concerning the changing relationship of Britain to Ireland (1834-1922); France to Algeria (1936-62) and Israel to the West Bank/Gaza (since 1967). This richly detailed and thoroughly documented book can be read on a number of different levels and therefore has much to offer to a wide variety of audiences.

Middle East Policy - Robert Bookmiller

Related collections and offers

Product Details

About the Author

Related Subjects

Customer Reviews