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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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regional conflict, and hence voiced little opposition to the continuation of a war economy at home. Recently, however, these …
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Since the late 1980s, Israel has been undergoing a profound transformation, characterized by reconciliation with its Arab neighbours and attempts to reintegrate into the regional economy, a transition from a militarized economy to open markets, and a decline of the collectivist ethos in favour...
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This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...
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conflicts, is a matter of ethnicity, religion and culture, and these sentiments have their ups and downs. The prime agitators of … appearances. History certainly is open-ended, but it is not random. And while ethnicity, religion and culture are real features of …The flaring up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s caught most experts by surprise. The 1990s …
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An analysis of the political economy of Israel during the 1990s.
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shift in emphasis from “war profits” to “peace dividends” – and back to conflict? How did egalitarianism give rise to …
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It is popular these days to talk about the "discontent" of neoliberal globalization. This "discontent" is no longer the prerogative of intellectuals. Increasingly, it comes from below, with opposition from the grassroots. But there may be another type of discontent lurking behind the scenes....
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The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative analytical framework for understanding the long term transformation in Israel. First, we argue against the conventional separation between the “political system” and the “economic system.” This separationist approach has been popular...
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A theoretical and historical account of the global political economy of oil, armament and capital accumulation in the Middel East.
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