Continuity and Change in Political Culture

Yael S. Aronoff is director of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and is the Serling Chair in Israel Studies at Michigan State University and teaches in James Madison College.Ilan Peleg is founding editor-in-chief of Israel Studies Forum, the scholarly journal of the Association for Israel Studies. Saliba Sarsar is professor of political science at Monmouth University.

• IntroductionYael S. Aronoff, Ilan Peleg, and Saliba SarsarSection I: Conflict and Peace1.Pathways to Peace: Legitimation of a Two-State SolutionYael S. Aronoff2.Memory, Identity, and Peace in Palestinian-Israeli RelationsSaliba Sarsar3.Denationalization in the Israel-Palestinian ContextNadav G. Shelef4.The Ecological Fallacy: “Trust” in International Relations The Case of the Settlement Freeze in the Oslo ProcessYossi BeilinSection II: Challenges to Democracy5.Israel’s Democracy at a Turning PointNaomi Chazan6.Majority-Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Democratic Societies:The Israeli Case in a Globalized ContextIlan Peleg7.Creating the Public in a Society of Strangers:Inclusion and Exclusion in American CitiesJoel MigdalSection III: National Memory, Memorialization, and Dramatization8.The Bible Now: Political Satire and National MemoryYael Zeruvabel9.Victim Sculpture and an Aesthetic of Basque PoliticsRoland Vazquez10.Tadeusz Kantor’s Theater as an Antid

Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel & Beyond recalls Myron J. Aronoff’s innovative re-inventing of political culture over the course of his illustrious career, allowing him to uncover how power is exerted and legitimacy earned. The contributors to this festschrift elaborate and extend his insistent reimagining of a re-democratized Israel at peace with a viable Palestinian state.