Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Sucharov
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Mutual Identity

The Israel-Diaspora relationship is characterized by mutual identity construction. Israel depends on the Diaspora for material and ideational support; some corners of the Diaspora draw on Israel to underwrite its ongoing project of identity construction and maintenance, while others see the State of Israel as a safe haven in the face of anti-Semitism. Twenty-first-century Diaspora Jewish politics is animated by increasingly intense debates over Zionism, the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, the question of evolving attachment to Israel (and the meaning of the concept of attachment itself), and the place of Israel in collective Jewish consciousness through donor-supported programs such as Birthright. The Israel lobby, particularly in the United States, provides a stark institutional manifestation of many of these dynamics, with respective foreign policies toward Israel serving as flashpoints for various Jewish electoral and identity debates.

scholarly journals Avukah

AmeriQuests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Taraskiewicz
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Early American ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Zionist Organization

The landscape of American Zionism shifted slowly and significantly over the course of the early to mid 20th century, culminating in the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. In that tumultuous period of history, American Zionism was not one single traceable ideology, but a great mass of intersecting and opposing ideologies, formed by American Jews’ desire to assimilate and their response to ongoing and pervasive anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe. One particular student Zionist organization, known as Avukah, cultivated its own Zionist ideology and attempted to spread its message to universities across the country. However, as American Zionism transformed and took root in mainstream American Jewish society, Avukah struggled and ultimately failed to instill its Zionist ideology into the mainstream. Avukah’s strict adherence to a singular, yet ultimately unclear Zionist ideology and its inability to adapt to the shifting tides of American Zionism provide a unique lens into the world of early American Zionist culture and the limitations of organizations founded on strict adherence to ideology. The study of Avukah’s rise and fall through the prism of the Avukah chapter at Temple University offers a close examination and microcosm of the limitations of Avukah’s Zionist ideology in the face of American Zionism’s period of great change.

scholarly journals Sachs, Jeffrey D.: A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism.

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Michal Bula
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Global Economic Growth

The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America great. Instead, it represents the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of severe environmental threats, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges.In this incisive and forceful book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity―not nationalism and gauzy dreams of past glory. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. Our pursuit of primacy has embroiled us in unwise and unwinnable wars, and it is time to shift from making war to making peace and time to embrace the opportunities that international cooperation offers. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.

Producing Diaspora

2018 ◽  
pp. 160-184
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Appert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Music ◽  
Material Gain ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Musical Elements ◽  
Verbal Performance

This chapter shows how palimpsestic practices of hip hop genre produce diasporic connections. It describes how hip hop practices of layering and sampling delink indigenous musical elements from traditional communicative norms to rework them in hip hop, where they signify rootedness and locality in ways consistent with hip hop practice in the United States. It demonstrates that this process relies on applications of hip hop time (musical meter) as being fundamentally different from indigenous music, whose local appeal is contrasted with hip hop’s global intelligibility. It outlines how hip hop concepts of flow free verbal performance from lyrical referentiality to render it a musical element. It argues that these practices of hip hop genre, in their delinking of sound and speech, reshape understandings of the relationship between commercialism and referentiality, and suggests that voice therefore should be understood to encompass artists’ agency in pursuing material gain in the face of socioeconomic struggle.

The United States and China: Into the Twenty-First Century (Third Edition). By Michael Schaller. [New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 242 pp. Hard cover $45.00, ISBN 0-19-513758-2; paperback $23.95, ISBN 0-19-513759-0.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 523-525
Author(s):  
Bruce J. Dickson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hard Cover

This useful textbook provides an overview of US–China relations between the late 19th century and the beginning of the 21st. It gives a clear chronology of events and covers the main events and issues in the relationship. It also embeds the description of these events and issues in the larger international and domestic contexts, allowing it to mesh easily with other textbooks that focus either on China's foreign relations in general or on its domestic developments.

Seek Knowledge Even If It Takes You to China (Via Washington)Saudi Arabia and China in the Twenty-First Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 166-188
Author(s):  
Sean Foley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Strategic Factors ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sides

For much of the last twenty years, China’s ties with Saudi Arabia have been understood in commercial terms, with most scholars arguing that the relationship has little cultural or historical depth. Drawing on multiple trips to China between 2011 and 2015 along with a ten-month period living continuously in Saudi Arabia in 2013 and 2014, this paper argues that there are factors other than economics that should be considered: namely, historical ties dating back to the seventh century, Saudi cultural and geo-strategic linkages to the United States, and the new economic and political geography of Eurasia. While cultural and strategic factors have limited the growth of Saudi-Sino ties since the start of the Arab Spring, they are likely to be the factors that allow for the two sides to realize the potential of their bilateral relationship in the future—even while retaining their close current alliances with other great powers.

scholarly journals Os sentidos de uma vida: a construção de si e do grupo na materialidade de uma autobiografia

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Loyde Anne Carreiro Silva Veras ◽  
Evelyn De Almeida Orlando
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
European American ◽  
The Relationship

Este artigo parte de uma análise do livro 8:28, a autobiografia de Eva Yarwood Mills publicada em 1976, em Lancaster, Estados Unidos. Eva Mills veio da Inglaterra para o Brasil como uma missionária protestante no período de 1928 a 1959, aposentando-se nos Estados Unidos. A partir da materialidade do 8:28, procuramos identificar os sentidos acionados pela autora nas representações tanto de si quanto do grupo religioso ao qual ela pertencia. Conjuntamente exploramos os elementos do pacto autobiográfico e discutimos as estratégias acionadas a partir da relação entre editor, autora-narradora-personagem e público leitor. Identificamos uma narrativa rica em sentidos e caminhos de possíveis análises, capazes de suscitar questões relevantes, como as estratégias usadas na representação de uma vida, os usos da autobiografia na construção identitária de um sujeito e do grupo que faz parte e o lugar da educação na vida desta personagem. Apesar de Eva Mills ser uma professora e construir-se por meio da educação, é na relação com o grupo religioso da sua velhice que ela se reelabora enquanto missionária e legitima-se como educadora a serviço de uma missão protestante europeia-americana (auto)definida como civilizadora.Palavras-chave: Educação. Autobiografia. Protestantismo.AbstractThis article is an analysis of the book 8:28, the autobiography of Eva Yarwood Mills published in 1976, in Lancaster, United States. Eva Mills lived and worked in Brazil as a Protestant missionary from 1928 to 1959 and she retired to the United States. From the book's materiality, identifying the author's senses in the representations of both himself and the religious group to which he belongs. We explore the elements of the autobiographical pact and discuss the strategies with which they are triggered from the relationship between publisher, author-character and readership. We identified in this research a book rich in analyses paths, capable of raising important questions such as the strategies used in the representation of a life, the uses of autobiography in the identity construction of a subject and the group to which he belongs and the roles which education assumes in the life of this character from his place of belonging. Although Eva Mills is a teacher and building herself through education, it is in the relationship with the religious group of her old age that she reelaborates as a missionary and legitimizes herself as an educator who has been in the service of a mission European-American Protestant (self)defined as a civilizer.Keywords: Education. Autobiography. Protestantism. ResumenEste artículo es un análisis del libro 8:28, la autobiografía de Eva Yarwood Mills publicada en 1976, en Lancaster, Estados Unidos. Eva Mills vivió y trabajó en Brasil como misionera protestante desde 1928 hasta 1959 y se retiró a los Estados Unidos. De la materialidad del libro, identificar los sentidos del autor en las representaciones de él mismo y del grupo religioso al que pertenece. Exploramos los elementos del pacto autobiográfico y discutimos las estrategias con las cuales se desencadenan a partir de la relación entre editor, autor-personaje y lectores. Identificamos en esta investigación un libro rico en posibles direcciones y análisis, capaz de plantear preguntas importantes como las estrategias utilizadas en la representación de una vida, los usos de la autobiografía en la construcción de identidad de un sujeto y el grupo al que pertenece y los roles que la educación asume en la vida de este personaje desde su lugar de pertenencia. Aunque Eva Mills es maestra y se está forjando a través de la educación, es en la relación con el grupo religioso de su vejez que reelabora como misionera y se legitima como educadora que ha estado al servicio de una misión protestante europeo-estadounidense (auto)definida como civilizadora.Palabras-clave: Educación. Autobiografía. Protestantismo.

China, Russia, and Twenty-First Century Global Geopolitics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Bolt ◽  
Sharyl N. Cross
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Energy Trade ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese–Russian bilateral relationship, grounded in a historical perspective, and discusses the implications of the partnership between these two major powers for world order and global geopolitics. The volume compares the national worldviews, priorities, and strategic visions for the Chinese and Russian leadership, examining several aspects of the relationship in detail. The energy trade is the most important component of economic ties, although both sides desire to broaden trade and investments. In the military realm, Russia sells advanced arms to China, and the two countries engage in regular joint exercises. Diplomatically, these two Eurasian powers take similar approaches to conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, and also cooperate on non-traditional security issues, including preventing colored revolutions, cyber management, and terrorism. These issue areas illustrate four themes. Russia and China have common interests that cement their partnership, including security, protecting authoritarian institutions, and reshaping aspects of the global order. They are key players challenging the United States and the Western liberal order, influencing not only regional issues, but also international norms and institutions. Nevertheless, Western nations remain important for China and Russia. Both seek better relations with the West, but on the basis of “mutual respect” and “equality.” Lastly, Russia and China have frictions in their relationship, and not all of their interests overlap. While the relationship has grown, particularly since 2014, China and Russia are partners but not allies.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Moral Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Diverse World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
New Framework

‘Epilogue’ traces the turn-of-the-twenty-first century interest in globalization and its implication for addressing intellectual problems in the United States. The perils and possibilities of globalization for American life vexed thinkers on how globalization intensified nationalism around the world. Globalization was a new framework and scale for long-standing and familiar ways of thinking about the boundaries of moral communities. It also refashioned identities in the face of a diverse world and uncertain future.

Democracy, Race, and the Socialist Project in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
American People ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Poll Data

This paper examines the relationship between race, socialism, and democracy in America. It is organized into five sections and a conclusion. The first section explores how socialism has been viewed by many black leaders and intellectuals as necessary, imperative perhaps, in the black struggle for material equality, and further investigates the relationship of this black perspective on socialism to white opposition. The second section uses the most recent historical work to identify the factors that have the stalled the development of socialism in America. I also assess how these factors have changed or not in terms of making the socialist project more likely. In the third section, I analyze available poll data on American opinion about socialism from the 1930s to the present. While the data show unambiguously increased support for socialism since the 1930s, socialism does not today command the support of a majority of the American people. In the fourth section I examine the paradigmatic Franklin Roosevelt presidency on how liberal Democratic presidents have avoided the socialist label while embracing socialist programs. The fifth section is a brief examination of what socialism—really existing socialism—means in the early twenty-first century, and the idea of “socialist smuggling” as manifested in the presidencies of FDR and Lyndon Johnson. The speculative conclusion asks what are the prospects for the socialist project, and whether the white liberal cosmopolitan bourgeoisie rather than the white working class might become a mass base for the socialist project.

scholarly journals A Human Rights Agenda for the Biden Administration

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Face ◽  
Multilateral Diplomacy ◽  
Trump Administration

The Biden administration has much to do to restore the United States’ credibility as a human rights leader and to strengthen the human rights system in an era of rising right-wing nationalism, authoritarianism, and competition for global power. In doing so, it needs to lead by example by putting its own house in order, and act with both courage and humility in the face of deep global skepticism and distrust. Specifically, the administration should pursue five stages of engagement on human rights: reverse and revoke measures taken by the Trump administration, reaffirm the United States’ traditional commitments to human rights at home and abroad, rebuild the State Department and diplomatic corps, reengage with international and regional mechanisms through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, and reconceptualize the United States’ twenty-first century relationship to human rights. All of the other topics addressed in this symposium—climate, health, elections, migration, structural racism, and trade—implicate human rights. None can be adequately addressed without a robust U.S. human rights agenda.

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