Hearts and Minds, livre ebook

Small-scale wars, terrorism, and guerilla warfare, each characterized by low-intensity violence are the new global reality in the twenty-first century. States in general, and liberal democratic states in particular, are compelled to develop a new operational approach to deal with these phenomena. At the same time the world of diplomacy is experiencing its own upheaval, its old closed-door practices being displaced by the demand for ongoing public diplomacy. Concurrent with these developments, individuals and nongovernmental organizations harness the new media revolution to create powerful global networks to promote common causes, transcending the state and breaking its exclusive control over information.
In this book, Nachman Shai examines the case of Israel, a liberal democratic state faced with an incessant stream of diverse, low-intensity threats. Shai discusses the military, political, economic, legal, and public diplomacy fronts of the second intifada (2000–2005) and how Israel deliberated its response in an environment where the state is only one of the players in a global arena in which individuals, nongovernmental organizations, and international news corporations all operate.
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
List of Interviewees
Introduction
1. “Why Are the Jews Shooting at Us?”
2. The Durban Conference: A Strategic Ambush
3. “Smart Power”
4. Low-Intensity Warfare
5. Globalization and the Media Revolution
6. “Drink More Water”
7. “Even When We Do Something, Nothing Comes of It”
8. Voice of Israel
9. The Unseen Shield?
10. Thinking Outside the Box: Or, We’re Always Ready
11. “National Explainer”
12. Blood on Their Hands
13. Was There a Massacre?
14. Deploying a Public Diplomacy Network
15. Countering the BDS Movement
Epilogue When Peres Died
Notes
References
About the Author
Index