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Tel Aviv: The Institute for National Security Studies, 2008. Heller, Mark A., ed

The book includes ten analytical essays written by INSS researchers that dwell on Israel’s strategic environment in the period under review. The ongoing challenges represented by the Palestinian issue and the Iranian nuclear program are well documented, as well as developments elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim world and in Israel.
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Preface
Chapter 1
Israel and the International System / Roni Bart and Limor Simhony
Chapter 2
Domestic Developments in Israel: Political, Social, and Economic / Yehuda Ben Meir and Meir Elran
Chapter 3
The IDF: Addressing the Failures of the Second Lebanon War / Giora Eiland
Chapter 4
The Regional Military Balance / Yiftah S. Shapir and Shlomo Brom
Chapter 5
The Arab World 2007 / Mark A. Heller
Chapter 6
The Israeli-Palestinian Arena: Dynamic Stagnation / Anat Kurz
Chapter 7
Sort of Want to, but not Really: Israeli-Syrian Relations in 2007 / Amir Kulick
Chapter 8
Iraq in Turmoil / Ephraim Kam
Chapter 9
Nuclear Developments in Iran / Ephraim Asculai and Emily B. Landau
Chapter 10
Strategic Implications of the Global Oil Market / Shmuel Even
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