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Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Pragmatism and Historical Inquiry

Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Pragmatism and Historical Inquiry

Isacoff, Jonathan B.

Paperback

General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0739112732
ISBN13: 9780739112731
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 22 2006
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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