BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,423, January 26, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On January 3, 2020, an American drone killed Iran’s roving fixer in the Middle East, Quds commander Qassem Soleimani, sparking intense, but largely partisan, reactions in the US. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 737, February 11, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The 1989 essay “The End of History,” by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama, has been both celebrated and maligned for its prediction that the future would unfold with centuries …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 736, February 11, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Scholars disagree as to whether there exists a liberalizing global political order that has been preserved through American hegemony since World War II (often referred to as the “liberal …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 489, June 7, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When Israeli officials seemingly questioned their country’s narrative of the Six-Day War, politicized historians and commentators seized on their words as vindication of their claim that Israel had been …
Executive Summary:
It has long been conventional wisdom to view the June 1967 war as an accidental conflagration that neither Arabs nor Israelis desired, yet none were able to prevent. This could not be further from the truth. Its specific …
