Pub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2025.2455375
Ludovica Castelli
The 'villa in the jungle' metaphor, conventionally associated with Israel's former Defence Minister Ehud Barak, is one of the most referenced metaphors in Israeli political discourse. Its perpetuation has contributed to the fixation of two co-constitutive collective identities: Israel as an exemplary democratic society amidst a violent and backward Arab neighbourhood. This article examines an often-overlooked aspect of such a discourse: its transposition within Israel's nuclear narrative and its impact on Israel's nuclear politics. It contends that the perpetuation of this discourse has fuelled Israel's nuclear orientalist narrative, fixing a paradigm according to which certain identities have crystallised as commonsensical and certain actions as legitimate. On one hand, it has helped to construct Israel's entitlement to possess nuclear weapons and the Arab non-entitlement thereto. On the other hand, it has provided a rationale for Israel's kinetic counterproliferation actions. However, the 'villa in the jungle' discourse and the identities constructed by it are anchored to a specific security context, which saw Israel as an isolated country facing an existential threat. But what if a change in the status quo, such as the emergence of a new regional security complex (RSC), devalued the 'villa in the jungle' paradigm and thus delegitimised both Israel's nuclear orientalist discourse and practice? As Israel normalises its relations with Gulf monarchies and civilian nuclear programmes become increasingly salient in the region, for the first time since its creation, Israeli policymakers might find themselves entangled in a new dilemma, one centred on a re-assessment of the definition of 'enemy state' in Naor's very first definition of the Begin Doctrine - or the 'jungle' in Barak's definition.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2025.2467756
Hamad H. Albloshi, Courtney Freer, Morten Valbjørn
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Pub Date : 2024-10-23DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2415058
Buğra Can Bayçifci
This article explores Fascist Italy’s attempts in the interwar era to influence Turkish perceptions of fascism and Italy. The techniques to be reviewed include interviews by diplomatic personnel, t...
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Pub Date : 2024-10-23DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2415986
Zeynep Akçakaya
This article revisits Ottoman history by exploring the enduring relationship between humans and locusts through an animal-human history approach, emphasizing their ‘companionship’ and combined agen...
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Pub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2409188
Syed Tanvir Wasti
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1875 − 1957) was a prominent and prolific writer who, in 1908, was also the first journalist elected to the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of the Committee of Un...
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın（1875 - 1957 年）是一位著名的多产作家，1908 年，他还是第一位当选为奥斯曼众议院议员的记者。他是奥斯曼帝国统一委员会的成员。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2406464
Chad Radwan
The millennium-long history of the Druze continues to shape members’ sense of ethnoreligious particularism and relations with other groups in Lebanon. Their contemporary heritage narrative and proc...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2405933
Selim Sezer
Turkey was among the countries that refused the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which was put to vote on 29 November 1947, and this was celebrated by many Arab governments. Nevertheless...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2402450
Khaled Albateni
This article examines the encounters between the Arabian Mission and the people of Bahrain from 1892 to 1917. The Arabian Mission which began as an American missionary project, established a statio...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2401375
Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《中东研究》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2024.2396590
Courtney Freer
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《中东研究》（2024 年提前出版）
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