Description
"The Transforming Fire" sets out to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. For a time, the Arab-Israeli conflict seemed a fight over real-estate and recognition, but in recent years it has transformed into an existential battle between Israel and radical Islamism. Today, Israel faces a rising force that is committed to its demise. Spyer, who served as a special advisor on international affairs to Israeli Cabinet ministers, provides a vivid account of what can now be called the Israel-Islamist conflict, outlining the issues at stake and gauging each side's relative strengths and weaknesses. Israel faces not one united Islamist movement, but an array of states and organizations that share a wish to destroy Jewish sovereignty. Combining narrative and argument, Spyer uses first-person accounts of key moments in the conflict to highlight the human impact of this battle of wills. A thought-provoking, balanced work, "The Transforming Fire" provides a new understanding of a particular aspect of the larger conflict between radical Islam and West, which may well become the key foreign policy challenge of the 21st century.
The Transforming Fire sets out to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
About the Author
A British national who immigrated to Israel in 1991, Jonathan Spyer currently holds a senior research fellowship at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, London Times, Washington Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Jerusalem Post, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Israel Affairs and Middle East Review of International Affairs. Spyer has contributed chapters to many books and has been interviewed on CNN, BBC World, BBC News 24 and al-Jazeera as well as on a number of radio shows. He is also a regular guest analyst on Israel Channel 1's English TV news program. Spyer holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Masters' Degree (with Distinction) in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He has served in a front-line unit of the Israel Defense Forces in 1992-3, fought in the war in Lebanon in summer 2006, and is in the active reserves. Between 1996 and 2000, Spyer was an employee of the Israel Prime Minister's Office.
Reviews
"Reading [Spyer's] book is poignantly and vicariously to live through the past decade of Israel's turmoil, with its many attendant tragedies and its few triumphs."-Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum "Jonathan Spyer, one of the smartest commentators on the Middle East, has written a brilliant, heartbreaking account of life and death in contemporary Israel"-Yossi Klein Halevi, author of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, and Israel correspondent and contributing editor of The New Republic. "This is one of those rare books in which experience and ideas support one another, and altogether illuminate what to expect in today's Middle East." -David Pryce-Jones"
Book Information
ISBN 9781441166630
Author Jonathan Spyer
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 506g
The Transforming Fire sets out to explain how the rise of Islamism is changing the nature of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
About the Author
A British national who immigrated to Israel in 1991, Jonathan Spyer currently holds a senior research fellowship at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, London Times, Washington Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Jerusalem Post, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Israel Affairs and Middle East Review of International Affairs. Spyer has contributed chapters to many books and has been interviewed on CNN, BBC World, BBC News 24 and al-Jazeera as well as on a number of radio shows. He is also a regular guest analyst on Israel Channel 1's English TV news program. Spyer holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Masters' Degree (with Distinction) in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He has served in a front-line unit of the Israel Defense Forces in 1992-3, fought in the war in Lebanon in summer 2006, and is in the active reserves. Between 1996 and 2000, Spyer was an employee of the Israel Prime Minister's Office.
Reviews
"Reading [Spyer's] book is poignantly and vicariously to live through the past decade of Israel's turmoil, with its many attendant tragedies and its few triumphs."-Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum "Jonathan Spyer, one of the smartest commentators on the Middle East, has written a brilliant, heartbreaking account of life and death in contemporary Israel"-Yossi Klein Halevi, author of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, and Israel correspondent and contributing editor of The New Republic. "This is one of those rare books in which experience and ideas support one another, and altogether illuminate what to expect in today's Middle East." -David Pryce-Jones"
Book Information
ISBN 9781441166630
Author Jonathan Spyer
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 506g
