The Star and the Stripes (eBook)

A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews

Michael N. Barnett (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400880607 (ISBN)

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Michael N. Barnett is the University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University. His many books include Empire of Humanity and Dialogues in Arab Politics.

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An incisive account of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews from the nineteenth century to the presentHow do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal-a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic-a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of these worldviews on the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews since the nineteenth century. Michael Barnett argues that it all begins with the political identity of American Jews. As Jews, they are committed to their people's survival. As Americans, they identify with, and believe their survival depends on, the American principles of liberalism, religious freedom, and pluralism. This identity and search for inclusion form a political theology of prophetic Judaism that emphasizes the historic mission of Jews to help create a world of peace and justice.The political theology of prophetic Judaism accounts for two enduring features of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews. They exhibit a cosmopolitan sensibility, advocating on behalf of human rights, humanitarianism, and international law and organizations. They also are suspicious of nationalism-including their own. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that American Jews are natural-born Jewish nationalists, Barnett charts a long history of ambivalence; this ambivalence connects their early rejection of Zionism with the current debate regarding their attachment to Israel. And, Barnett contends, this growing ambivalence also explains the rising popularity of humanitarian and social justice movements among American Jews.Rooted in the understanding of how history shapes a political community's sense of the world, The Star and the Stripes is a bold reading of the past, present, and possible future foreign policies of American Jews.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones. 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 1948 • 613 commandments • Acculturation • Ahad Ha'am • Aliyah • American dream • American Israel Public Affairs Committee • American Jewish Committee • American Jewish Congress • American Jewish World Service • American Jewry • american jews • American Power • americans • Anti-Semitism • Arab–Israeli conflict • arabs • B'nai B'rith • Civic nationalism • Civilization • Cold War • conservative judaism • Cosmopolitanism • countermovement • cultural pluralism • Decolonization • Dual loyalty • Eastern Europe • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • gentile • grandparent • Great Power • Hannah Arendt • Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Holocaust • Homeland for the Jewish people • humanitarianism • Human Rights • Human Rights Watch • Ideology • Institution • International Community • International Law • International Relations • Israel • Israeli Jews • Israelis • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish History • Jewish Identity • Jewish Leadership • Jewishness • Jewish Peoplehood • Jewish problem • jewish question • Jewish refugees • Jewish right • Jewish state • Jews • Judaism • Judeo-Christian • League of Nations • Liberalism • Lithuania • Louis Marshall • Minority rights • Modernity • Morgenthau • national identity • National interest • Nationalism • Nationality • nation state • Nazism • non-Orthodox Jewry • Orthodox Judaism • palestinians • Persecution • philanthropy • pluralism • Pogrom • Political culture • Political Identity • Political Philosophy • Political Theology • Politics • post-war period • Precedent • Prime Minister of Israel • progressivism • Prophetic Judaism • Rabbi • Redemption • Reform Judaism • Refugee • Religion • Religious Freedom • Rule of Law • Second-Class Citizen • Self-determination • Six-Day War • skepticism • social justice movements • Society of the United States • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Suffering • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion • Tikkun Olam • Tribalism • tzedakah • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • University of Minnesota • Westphalian Sovereignty • World Jewish Congress • World War • World War I • World War II • Yiddish • Zionism
• ISBN-13: 9781400880607 / 9781400880607