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Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Pragmatism and Historical Inquiry
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2006
Summary
Nearly all empirical work in political science is fundamentally historical, yet very little attention has been given to the problem of grounding claims to historical knowledge. In Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan B. Isacoff constructs the nature of historical knowledge by deftly examining the multiple histories of the Arab-Israeli conflict written by generations of Israeli scholars. He also undertakes briefer analysis of literature, drawn from both historians and political scientists of the Vietnam War, demonstrating that historical revisionism is not unique to the study of the Middle East. Focusing on different schools of historical interpretation Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict argues for a pragmatist approach in the tradition of John Dewey. Most importantly, this exceptional work suggests a number of practical methodological measures that can be taken to produce more sophisticated and nuanced political science scholarship.
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Edition
1/2006
Copyright Year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1273-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6277-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1: The Historical Imagination of John Dewey No access Pages 19 - 48
2: Writing the Arab–Israeli Conflict No access Pages 49 - 76
3: History as Case Study: Qualitative Political Science Scholarship No access Pages 77 - 98
4: History as Data Point: The 1956 Arab–Israeli War and Quantitative IR No access Pages 99 - 118
5: Beyond the Middle East: Recent Debates on the Historiography of Vietnam No access Pages 119 - 142
6: Political Science's Historical Problem No access Pages 143 - 164
7: Solving the Historical Problem: History, Methodology, and Political Research No access Pages 165 - 186
