April 2025
CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Israel’s foreign policy. Bibliographies addressing specific aspects of Israel’s foreign relations can be found in these topics: Egypt and Israel; Europe and Israel; Far East and Israel; Iran and Israel; Jordan and Israel; Latin America and Israel; Lebanon, Syria, and Israel; U.N. and Israel; and U.S. and Israel. Many of the entries in this collection focus on the elements and origins of Israeli foreign policy.
Books
Alteras, Isaac. Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953-1960. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.
Amitzur, Ilan. Bernadotte in Palestine. New York: 1989.
Amitzur, Ilan. The Origin of the Arab‑Israeli Arms Race: Arms, Embargo, Military Power and Decision in the 1948 Palestine War. London: 1996.
Arens, Moshe. Broken Covenant: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis Between the US and Israel. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Aran, Amnon. Israel’s Foreign Policy Towards the PLO: The Impact of Globalization. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press, 2009.
Bass, Warren. Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Bialer, Uri. Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone. Indiana University Press, 2020.
Baker, Alan (ed.). Israel’s Rights as a Nation-State in International Diplomacy. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2011.
Bauer, Yehuda. Out of the Ashes. Oxford: 1989.
Benson, M. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. Westport, CT: 1997.
Ben-Horin, Yoav, and Barry Posen. Israel’s Strategic Doctrine. RAND Corp., 1981.
Ben-Meir, Yehuda. National Security Decision Making: The Israeli Case. Tel Aviv: 1986.
Ben-Zvi, Abraham. Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Origin of the American-Israeli Alliance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Bercuson, D. Canada and the Birth of Israel: A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy. Toronto: 1985.
Beres, Louis. Security or Armageddon: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy. Lexington Books, 1986.
Bialer, Uri. Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone. Indiana University Press, 2020.
Bialer, Uri. Between East and West: Israel’s Foreign Policy Orientation, 1948-1956. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Bialer, Uri. Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Policy, 1948-1967. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Bialer, Uri. Oil and the Arab‑Israeli Conflict. London, 1999.
Blitzer, Wolf. Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter’s Notebook. Oxford: 1985.
Brecher, Michael. Decisions in Israel’s Foreign Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
Caplan, Neil. Futile Diplomacy: Volume 3 — The United Nations, the Great Powers and the Middle East 1948‑1954. London: 1997.
Caplan, Neil. Futile Diplomacy: Volume 4 — Operation Alpha and the Failure of Anglo-American Coercive Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1954-1956. London: Frank Cass, 1997.
Carol, Steven S. From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond: Israel’s Foreign Policy in East Africa. Bloomington: IUniverse, 2012.
Cohen, Avner. Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain With the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Cohen, Michael. Palestine and the Great Powers 1945‑1948. Princeton, NJ: 1982.
Cohen, Michael. Truman and Israel. Berkeley, CA: 1990.
Danon, Danny. Israel: The Will to Prevail. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Druks, Herbert. The Uncertain Friendship: The U.S. and Israel From Roosevelt to Kennedy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Eban, Abba Solomon. Diplomacy for the Next Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Eisenberg, Laurie. My Enemy’s Enemy: Lebanon in Early Zionist Imagination 1900‑1948. Detroit: 1994.
Elath, Eliahu. Zionism at the UN: A Diary of the First Days. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976.
Evatt, Herbert V. The Task of Nations. Greenwood Press, 1949.
Freedman, Robert Owen. Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Challenges. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009.
Feldman, Shai. The Future of U.S.-Israel Strategic Cooperation. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1996.
Freilich, Charles D. Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Freilich, Charles D. Zion’s Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.
García-Granados, Jorge. The Birth of Israel as I Saw It. New York: 1949.
Gelber, Yoav. Jewish‑Transjordan Relations 1921‑1948. London: 1997.
Gelber, Yoav. Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. London: 2001.
Gilboa, Eytan. American Public Opinion Toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987.
Gilboa, Eytan, and Efraim Inbar (eds.). US-Israeli Relations in a New Era: Issues and Challenges After 9/11. London: Routledge, 2009.
Greilsammer, Alain, and Joseph Weiler. Europe and Israel: Troubled Neighbours. Berlin: W. De Gruyter, 1988.
Hahn, Peter L. Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005.
Handel, Michael. Israeli Political Military Doctrine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1973.
Heller, Joseph. The Birth of Israel 1945‑1949: Ben‑Gurion and His Critics. Gainesville, FL: 2000.
Heller, Mark. Continuity and Change in Israeli Security Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2000.
Horowitz, David. State in the Making. New York: Knopf, 1954.
Inbar, Efraim (ed.). The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security: Domestic and International Ramifications. Routledge, 2013.
Indyk, Martin. Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Johnson, Robert David. Lyndon Johnson and Israel: The Secret Presidential Recordings. Research paper No. 3. S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2008.
Karpin, Michael I. The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Kay, Zachariah. The Diplomacy of Prudence: Canada and Israel 1948‑1958. Montreal: 1997.
Kaye, Dalia Dassa, Alireza Nader and Parisa Roshan. Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry. Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2011.
Klieman, Aharon S. Israel & the World After 40 Years. Pergamon Brassey’s, 1990.
Klieman, Aharon S. Statecraft in the Dark: Israel’s Practice of Quiet Diplomacy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988.
Kochavi, Noam. Nixon and Israel: Forging a Conservative Partnership. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
Lesch, David W. The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment. 4th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2007.
Levey, Zach. Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Malka, Haim. Crossroads: The Future of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011.
Manṣūr, Kamil. Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Maoz, Zeev. Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel’s Security & Foreign Policy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Migdal, Joel S. Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Miller, Aaron David. The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace. New York: Bantam Books, 2009.
Navon, Emmanuel. A Plight Among the Nations: Israel’s Foreign Policy Between Nationalism and Realism. Saarbrücken: VDM Verl. Dr. Müller, 2009.
Navon, Emmanuel. The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Nevo, Joseph. King Hussein and the Evolution of Jordan’s Perception of a Political Settlement With Israel: 1967-1988. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006.
Novik, Nimrod. The United States and Israel: Domestic Determinants of a Changing U.S. Commitment. Tel Aviv: Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies, 1985.
Organski, Kenneth. The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Politics in U.S. Assistance to Israel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Patten, Howard A. Israel and the Cold War: Diplomacy, Strategy and the Policy of the Periphery at the United Nations. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Peleg, Ilan. Begin’s Foreign Policy, 1977-1983: Israel’s Move to the Right. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Pollack, David. The Politics of Pressure: American Arms and Israeli Policy Since the Six Day War. Greenwood, 1982.
Quandt, William B. Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967. 3rd ed. Washington and Berkeley: Brookings Institution and University of California Press, 2005.
Radosh, Allis, and Ronald Radosh. A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. HarperCollins, 2009.
Rabinovich, Itamar, and Itai Brun. Israel Facing a New Middle East: In Search of a National Security Strategy. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 2017.
Reich, Bernard. Securing the Covenant: United States-Israel Relations After the Cold War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.
Reich, Bernard. The US and Israel. Praeger, 1984.
Reinharz, Jehuda. Zionism and the Great Powers: A Century of Foreign Policy. The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture, 38. New York: 1994.
Reiser, Stewart. The Israeli Arms Industry: Foreign Policy, Arms Transfers, and Military Doctrine of a Small State. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1989.
Reiser, Stewart. The Politics of Leverage: The National Religious Party of Israel and Its Influence on Foreign Policy. Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1984.
Roberts, Samuel J. Survival or Hegemony? The Foundations of Israeli Foreign Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
Ro’i, Yaacov. Soviet Decision‑Making in Practice: The Soviet Union and Israel, 1947‑1954. New Brunswick, NJ: 1980.
Ross, Dennis. Doomed to Succeed: The US-Israel Relationship From Truman to Obama. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2015.
Ross, Dennis. The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Rynhold, Jonathan. The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Samaan, Jean-Loup. Israel’s Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World: Engaging the Periphery. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017.
Sandler, Shmuel. The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy: A Study in Tradition and Survival. London: Routledge, 2017.
Sandler, Shmuel. The State of Israel, the Land of Israel: The Statist Ethnonational Dimension of Foreign Policy. Westport, CT: 1993.
Safran, Nadav. Israel: The Embattled Ally. Harvard University Press, 1981.
Sasson, Theodore, et al. Still Connected: American Jewish Attitudes About Israel. Brandeis University, Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, 2010.
Schiff, Ze’ev. Security for Peace: Israel’s Minimal Security Requirements in Negotiations With the Palestinians. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1989.
Schoenbaum, David. The United States and the State of Israel. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Schonmann, Noa. Israel’s Phantom Pact: Foreign Policy on the Periphery of the Middle East. I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Seliktar, Ofira. New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Israel. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
Shalom, Zaki. Israel’s Nuclear Option: Behind the Scenes Diplomacy Between Dimona and Washington. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press; Tel Aviv: Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies, 2005.
Sheffer, Gabriel (ed.). Dynamics of Dependence: US-Israeli Relations. Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, 1987.
Sheffer, Gabriel. Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate. Oxford: 1996.
Sheffer, Gabriel (ed.). US-Israeli Relations at the Crossroads. London: Cass, 1997.
Sofer, Sasson. Zionism and the Foundations of Israeli Diplomacy. Cambridge, England: 1998.
Spiegel, Steven L. The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America’s Middle East Policy From Truman to Reagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Stein, Ewan. Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign Policy From Nasser to Mubarak. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Stein, Kenneth W. Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace. Routledge, 1999.
Stephens, Elizabeth. US Policy Towards Israel: The Role of Political Culture in Defining the ‘Special Relationship.’ Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2006.
Tal, David (ed.). The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East. London and Portland, OR: Cass, 2001.
Thomas, Michael. American Policy Toward Israel: The Power and Limits of Beliefs. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
Troen, Selwyn I., and Moshe Shemesh (eds.). The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956: Retrospective and Reappraisal. London: Cass, 1990.
Wagner, Steven B. Statecraft by Stealth: Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine. Cornell University Press, 2019.
Wittstock, Alfred (ed.). The World Facing Israel — Israel Facing the World: Images and Politics. Berlin: Frank and Timme, 2011.
Zanotti, Jim. Israel: Major Issues and U.S. Relations. Congression Research Service, December 5, 2024.
Ziv, Guy. Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel. Albany: State University of New York, 2015.
Articles
Alperovitch, Lior, “Balancing Traditional Diplomacy and Jewish Norms: Foreign Policy Toward Germany in Israel’s Nascent Years,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 11, 1 (2017): 67-78.
Alpher, Joseph, “Israel: Challenges of Peace,” Foreign Policy 101 (Winter 1995-96): 130-145.
Aronson, Geoffrey, “Hidden Agenda: US-Israeli Relations and the Nuclear Question,” Middle East Journal 46, No. 4 (Autumn 1992): 617-630.
Avineri, Shlomo, “Ideology and Israel’s Foreign Policy,” The Jerusalem Quarterly, No. 36 (1986): 3-13.
Ayalon, Daniel, “Challenges to Israeli Foreign Policy,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 2010, No. 1: 7-14.
Bar-Siman-Tov, Yaacov, “Ben-Gurion and Sharett: Conflict Management and Great Power Constraints in Israeli Foreign Policy,” Middle Eastern Studies 24, 3 (1988): 330-356.
Bar-Siman-Tov, Yaacov, “The United States and Israel Since 1948: A ‘Special Relationship?’” Diplomatic History 22, No. 2 (Spring 1998): 231-262.
Barbalat, Ari, “A Friend Like This: Re-Evaluating Bush and Israel,” Middle East Policy 15, No. 4 (Winter 2008): 91-111.
Barnea, Nahum, “Israel vs. Hezbollah,” Foreign Policy 157 (November/December 2006): 22-28.
Bayme, Steven, “American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense the Bonds of Peoplehood?” Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 20, No. 12 (June 2008): 5-36.
Bengio, Ofra, “Turkey’s Quiet Revolution and Its Impact on Israel,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 4, No. 1 (2010): 15-21.
Ben-Zvi, Abraham, “Stumbling Into an Alliance: John F. Kennedy and Israel,” Israel Affairs 15, 3 (2009): 224-245.
Bialer, Uri, “Fuel Bridge Across the Middle East — Israel, Iran, and the Eilat-Ashkelon Oil Pipeline,” Israel Studies 12, 3 (2007): 29-67.
Bialer, Uri, “Israel and Nostra Aetate: The View From Jerusalem,” Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Policy 1948-67, Indiana University Press, 2005.
Bialer, Uri, “Sterling Balances and Claims Negotiations: Britain and Israel, 1947-1952,” Middle Eastern Studies 28, 1 (January 1992): 157-177.
Bialer, Uri, “Telling the Truth to the People: Britain’s Decision to Publish the Diplomatic Papers of the Inter-War Period,” The Historical Journal 26, 2 (1983): 349-367.
Bialer, Uri, “Top Hat, Tuxedo and Cannons: Israeli Foreign Policy From 1948 to 1956 as a Field of Study,” Israel Studies 7, 1 (2002): 1-80.
Barnett, Michael, “Culture, Strategy and Foreign Policy Change: Israel’s Road to Oslo,” European Journal of International Relations 5, No. 1 (March 1999).
Brecher, Michael, “Israel’s Foreign Policy: Challenges of the 1970s,” International Journal 28, 4 (1973): 748-765.
Brecher, Michael, “Jerusalem: Israel’s Political Decisions, 1947-1977,” The Middle East Journal 32, 1 (1978): 13-34.
Brecher, Michael, “The Middle East Subordinate System and Its Impact on Israel’s Foreign Policy,” International Studies Quarterly 13, 2 (1969): 117-139.
Brown, Nathan J., “Evolution After Revolution: Egypt, Israel, and the United States,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 1 (2013): 9-12.
Brownstein, Lewis, “Decision Making in Israeli Foreign Policy: An Unplanned Process,” Political Science Quarterly 92, 2 (June/July 1977): 259-279.
Carlson, Aurora, “A Window of Opportunity for Israel: Attracting Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 1 (2013): 59-68.
Clark, Clifford, and Richard Holbrooke, “President Truman’s Decision to Recognize Israel,” Jerusalem Viewpoints, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (May 1, 2008).
Cobban, Helena, “The US-Israeli Relationship in the Reagan Era,” Conflict Quarterly 9, No. 2 (Spring 1989): 5-32.
Cohen, S.P., and E.E. Azar, “From War to Peace: The Transition Between Egypt and Israel,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 25, 1 (1981): 87-114.
Cohen, Matthew S., and Charles D. Freilich, “Breakdown and Possible Restart: Turkish-Israeli Relations Under the AKP,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 8, 1 (2014): 39-55.
Danin, Robert M., “Israel Among the Nations: How to Make the Most of Uncertain Times,” Foreign Affairs 95, 4 (2016): 28-36.
Datz, Giselle, and Joel Peters, “Brazil and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the New Century: Between Ambition, Idealism, and Pragmatism,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 2 (2013): 43-57.
Dowty, Alan, “Israeli Foreign Policy and the Jewish Question,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, Volume 3, No. 1, March 1991.
Dowty, Alan, “Jewish Political Culture and Zionist Foreign Policy,” in Abraham Ben-Zvi and Aharon Kleiman, eds., Global Politics: Essays in Honour of David Vital, Frank Cass (2001): 309-326.
Dussey, Robert, “The State of Israel: A Partner in the Development of the African Continent,” Jewish Political Studies Review 28, 3-4 (2017): 25-29.
Eisenstadt, Michael, and David Pollock, “Friends With Benefits: Why the US-Israeli Alliance Is Good for America,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 7, 2012.
Elizur, Yuval, “Formulating Israel’s Foreign Trade Policy,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 1, 2 (2007): 97-106.
Feldman, Shai. The Future of US-Israel Strategic Cooperation, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch 93 (May 2, 1996).
Fetter, Henry D., “‘Showdown in the Oval Office,’ 12 May 1948 in History,” Israel Affairs 14, 3 (2008): 499-518.
Fetter, Henry D., “‘Forthcoming Three Months Represent Best Remaining Opportunity for Accomplishment’: Israeli Diplomacy and the 1948 US Presidential Election (Part I),” Israel Affairs 15, 3 (2009): 246-260.
Fetter, Henry D., “‘Forthcoming Three Months Represent Best Remaining Opportunity for Accomplishment’: Israeli Diplomacy and the 1948 US Presidential Election (Part II),” Israel Affairs 16, 2 (2010): 201-218.
Fetter, Henry D., “‘Two & Three Air Raids Daily. What a Bother’: An American Diplomat in Israel During the War of Independence,” Israel Affairs 18, 4 (2012): 546-562.
Fishman, Ben, “The ‘Israel Lobby’: A Realistic Assessment,” Orbis 52, 1 (2008): 159-180.
Fishman, Joel, “A Disaster of Another Kind: Zionism = Racism, Its Beginning, and the War of Delegitimization Against Israel,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 5, 3 (2011): 75-92.
Fishman, Joel, “The Relegitimization of Israel and the Battle for the Mainstream Consensus,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 6, 2 (2012): 9-20.
Freedman, Robert O., “U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East in Clinton’s Second Term,” Middle East Review of International Affairs 3, No. 1 (March 1999): 55-79.
Garfinkle, Adam, “U.S.-Israeli Relations After the Cold War,” Orbis 40, No.2 (Autumn 1996): 557-675.
Gat, Moshe, “Military Power and Foreign Policy Inaction: Israel, 1967-1973,” Israel Affairs 22, 1 (2016): 69-95.
Gelber, Yoav, “Jewish‑Arab Talks During the War of Independence,” The Journal of Jewish History 15, 3 (1994): 283-312.
Gerlini, Matteo, “Waiting for Dimona: The United States and Israel’s Development of Nuclear Capability,” Cold War History 10, 2 (2010): 143-161.
Gilboa, Eytan, “Obama in Israel: Fixing American-Israeli Relations,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 2 (2013): 19-28.
Gilboa, Eytan, “Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel’s Foreign Policy,” Israel Affairs 12, 4 (2006): 715-747.
Gitelson, Susan, “Israel’s African Setback in Perspective,” Jerusalem Papers on Peace Problems 6 (1974): 5-27.
Gold, Dore, “Understanding the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Walt-Mearsheimer Claim,” Jerusalem Viewpoints 556, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2007.
Goldberg, Giora, “Ben-Gurion and Jewish Foreign Policy,” Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 3, 1-2 (Spring 1991): 91-101.
Goldberg, Jeffrey, “The Crisis in US-Israel Relations Is Officially Here,” The Atlantic, October 28, 2014.
Goldmann, Nahum, “Israel, the US, and American Jewry — A Complex Relationship,” New Outlook (November/December 1979).
Goldstein, Yossi, “France or US? The Struggle to Change Israel’s Foreign Policy Orientation, 1956-64 (Part I),” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 4, 2 (2010): 99-113.
Golani, Motti, “The Historical Place of the Czech-Egyptian Arms Deal, Fall 1955,” Middle Eastern Studies 31 (1995): 803-827.
Golani, Motti, “Zionism Without Zion: The Jerusalem Question 1947‑1949,” Journal of Israeli History 16, 1 (1995): 39-52.
Goldstein, Jonathan, “The Republic of China and Israel, 1911-2003,” Israel Affairs 10, 1-2 (2004): 223-253.
Guzansky, Yoel, “Tacit Allies: Israel and the Arab Gulf States,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 5, 1 (2011): 9-17.
Hahn, Peter, “The View From Jerusalem: Revelations About U.S. Diplomacy From the Archives of Israel,” Diplomatic History 22, 4 (1998): 509-532.
Haron, Miriam, “Britain and Israel 1948-1950,” Modern Judaism 3, 2 (1983): 217-223.
Heilbrunn, Jacob, “Israel’s Fraying Image,” National Interest (May/June 2013): 16-25.
Heimann, Gadi, “A Case of Diplomatic Symbiosis: France, Israel and the Former French Colonies in Africa, 1958-62,” Journal of Contemporary History 51, 1 (2016): 145-164.
Horowitz, David, “The Israeli Concept of National Security,” in Avner Yaniv (ed.), National Security and Democracy in Israel, Lynne Rienner Publishers (1993): 11-54.
Inbar, Efraim, “Attitudes Towards War in the Israeli Political Elite,” Middle East Journal 44 (1990): 431-445.
Inbar, Efraim, “Jews, Jewishness and Israel’s Foreign Policy,” Jewish Political Studies Review (1990): 165-183.
Inbar, Efraim, “Israel Is Not Isolated,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Mideast Security and Policy Studies 99 (March 2013).
Inbar, Efraim, “Israeli National Security 1973-1996,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 555 (1998): 62-81.
Jackson, Galen, “The Showdown That Wasn’t: U.S.-Israeli Relations and American Domestic Politics, 1973-75,” International Security 39, 4 (2015): 130-169.
Jacoby, Tami Amanda, “Israel’s Relations With Egypt and Turkey During the Arab Spring: Weathering the Storm,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 2 (2013): 29-42.
Jones, Clive, “The Foreign Policy of Israel,” in Raymond Hinnesbusch and Anoushivavan Ehteshami (eds.), Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Lynne Rienner, 2014.
Kanat, Kilic Bugra, “Turkish-Israeli Relations During the Cold War: The Myth of a Long ‘Special Relationship,’” Israel Studies Review 31, 2 (2016): 130-149.
Kanat, Kilic B., and Jackson Hannon, “Turkey-Israel Relations in the New Era: Opportunities and Challenges,” Mediterranean Quarterly 28, 4 (December 2017): 64-86.
Klienman, Aharon, “Shtadlanut as Statecraft by the Stateless,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 3 (2008): 99-113.
Kleinman, Aharon, “The Sorry State of Israeli Statecraft,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, No. 2 (2013): 9-18.
Klieman, Aharon, “The United States and Israel: The Road Ahead,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 9, 2 (2015): 163-177.
Kleiman, Aharon, “Zionist Diplomacy and Israeli Foreign Policy,” Jerusalem Quarterly 11 (1979): 93-111.
Kochavi, Noam, “Joining the Conservative Brotherhood: Israel, President Nixon, and the Political Consolidation of the ‘Special Relationship,’ 1969-73,” Cold War History 8, No. 4 (November 2008): 449-80.
Kohn, Leo, “Israel’s Foreign Relations,” International Affairs 36, 3 (1960): 330-341.
Koplow, Michael J., “Value Judgment: Why Do Americans Support Israel?” Security Studies 20, 2 (2011): 266-302.
Kramer, Martin, “Israel and the Post Middle East: Is the Status Quo Sustainable,” Foreign Policy (July/August 2016).
Küntzel, Matthias, “America’s Shifting ‘Red Lines’ on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: A Wedge Issue in US-Israel Relations,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 7, 1 (2013): 37-44.
Kurtzer, Daniel, “Do Settlements Matter? An American Perspective,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 3, 2 (2009): 23-30.
Lahav, Yonathan, “Israel Abroad,” Journal of Palestine Studies 12, 4 (1983): 187-188.
Latifi, Ali, and Shiva Jalalpoor, “Analysis of Israel’s Foreign Policy Concerning Iraqi’s Kurdistan (2003-2015),” Journal of History, Culture, and Art Research 6, 3 (2017): 864-878.
Lasensky, Scott B., “Friendly Restraint: US-Israel Relations During the Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991,” Rubin Center, Middle East Review of International Affairs, Volume 3, No. 2 (June 1999): 24-35.
Lasensky, Scott, “Dollarizing Peace: Nixon, Kissinger and the Creation of the US-Israeli Alliance,” Israel Affairs 13, 1 (2007): 164-186.
Lasensky, Scott, “Underwriting Peace in the Middle East: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Limits of Economic Inducements,” Middle East Review of International Affairs 6, No. 1 (March 2002): 89-105.
Lawson, F., “The Truman Administration and the Palestinians,” Arab Studies Quarterly 12, 1-2 (1990): 43-65.
Levey, Zach, “Israel’s Pursuit of French Arms 1952-58,” Studies in Zionism 14, 2 (1993): 183-210.
Levey, Zach, “The United States’ Skyhawk Sale to Israel, 1966: Strategic Exigencies of an Arms Deal,” Diplomatic History 28, 2 (2004): 255-276.
Lewis, Samuel W., “An American Perspective on Strategic Cooperation,” Proceedings of Strategy and Defense in the Eastern Mediterranean: An American-Israeli Dialogue, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Jerusalem, Israel (July 7-9, 1986).
Lewis, Samuel W., “The United States and Israel: Evolution of an Unwritten Alliance,” Middle East Journal 53, No. 3 (Summer 1999): 364-378.
Lieber, Robert, “US-Israeli Relations Since 1948,” MERIA Journal 2, No. 3 (September 1998).
Lieberman , Robert C., “The ‘Israel Lobby’ and American Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 7, 2 (2009): 235-257.
Lipset, Seymour M., and William Schneider, “Carter vs. Israel,” Commentary (November 1977): 21-29.
Little, Douglas, “The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and Israel, 1957-68,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 25, No. 4 (November 1993): 563-585.
Lorch, Nathaniel, “The Knesset and Israel’s Foreign Relations,” Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 9 (1987): 117-132.
Luttwak, Edward N., “Strategic Aspects of U.S.-Israeli Relations,” Israel Affairs 2, Issues 3-4 (1996):198-211.
Ma, Young-Sam, “Israel’s Role in the UN During the Korean War,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 4, 3 (2010): 81-89.
Magen, Amichai, “Comparative Assessment of Israel’s Foreign Policy Response to the ‘Arab Spring,’” Journal of European Integration 37, 1 (January 2015): 113-133.
Mead, Walter R., “The New Israel and the Old: Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State,” Foreign Affairs 87, No. 4 (July/August 2008): 28-46.
Medzini, Meron, “Hands Across Asia: Israel-Taiwan Relations,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 9, 2 (2015): 237-251.
Morag, Nadav, “Water, Geopolitics and State Building: The Case of Israel,” Middle Eastern Studies 37, 3 (2001): 179-198.
Mousavi, Hamed, “Labor Zionist Ideology and the Foundation of Israeli Foreign Policy,” Asian Affairs 50, 3 (July 2019): 384-408.
Mualem, Yitzhak, “Israel’s Foreign Policy: Military-Economic Aid and Assisting Jewish Communities in Distress — Can the Two Coexist?” Israel Affairs 18, 2 (2012): 201-218.
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