Summary
Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist on Middle Eastern politics, Israel and Arab-Israeli relations; author of For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Council on Foreign Relations, 1988) (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, lines 55-100).
Details
- In 1979 and 1980 he worked at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow responsible for analysis of Israel-West Bank affairs; at the time of the online edition’s About the Author block he was President of the Association for Israel Studies (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, lines 55-65).
- His other books as listed there: Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Cornell University Press, 1993); State-Building Failure in British Ireland and French Algeria (University of California, Institute of International Studies, 1985); and Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority (University of Texas, 1980); he is also editor of a ten-volume series, Arab-Israeli Relations: A Collection of Contending Perspectives and Recent Research (Garland Publishing, 1994) (lines 65-80).
- For the Land and the Lord originated in a research paper written under contract for the Defense Academic Research Support Program of the United States Department of Defense; Lustick stresses that no constraints were imposed on its conception, preparation, conclusions or publication, and that its argument does not reflect the views of the Department of Defense or the United States government (Preface to the 1994 Edition, lines 285-305).
Related pages
For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Jewish Fundamentalism, Gush Emunim