Between War and Peace
Dilemmas of Israeli Security

A distinguished group of strategists assesses the balance of opportunities confronting Israel at this critical juncture in its history and offers possible solutions to its pressing dilemmas.

A distinguished group of strategists assesses the balance of opportunities confronting Israel at this critical juncture in its history and offers possible solutions to its pressing dilemmas. The contributors address such issues as the economic consequences of peace for Israeli security, the implications of the new world order for Israel's strategic interests, Israel's nuclear weapons and the operational and strategic challenges posed by the future Middle Eastern battlefield.

Between war and peace, Efraim Karsh. The challenge of peace: economic security after a settlement - the prospects for Israel, Dov S. Zakheim
Israel's security in a new international environment
is a Palestinian state politically possible? Hussein Sirriyeh
land for peace - Israel's choices. Nuclear dilemmas: Israeli nuculear weapons and Middle East peace,
Efraim Karsh and Martin Navias
capping Israel's nuclear volcano, Frank Barnaby
Israel's bomb in the basement - a second look, Louis Rene Beres
non-conventional weapons and the future of Arab-Israeli deterrence, Avner Yaniv. Doctrine and
strategy: regime-targeting - a strategy for Israel, David Rodman
the cult of the offensive pre-emption and the future challenges for Israeli operational thought, Shimon Naveh
a paradigm in crisis? Israel's doctrine of military decision, Avi Kober. Water and peace: towards resolving conflicts over
water - the case of the mountain aquifer, Hillel I. SHuval

managing scarce water - recent Israeli experience, Shaul Arlosoroff. Documents: Israeli-PLO interim agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington DC on 28 September 1995
the covenenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS).