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Hot Off the Press – New Journal Issues Published in December

 

Contributions to the History of Concepts

Volume 10, Issue 2

This issue features a special section on Medieval Concepts.

 

Theoria

Volume 62, Issue 145

This special issue poses the question: Is the Idea of Peace Relevant for the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare?

 

Israel Studies Review

Volume 30, Issue 2

This issue of Israel Studies Review examines a variety of issues and topics using some new lenses that we hope will provide novel perspectives.

 

Italian Politics

Volume 30, Issue 1

This issue focuses on Italian Political Events in 2014.

 

Girlhood Studies

Volume 8, Issue 3

“Visual Disruptions” is the theme of this seventeenth issue of Girlhood Studies.

 

Learning and Teaching

Volume 8, Issue 3

This special issue is titled Coping with Cultural Difference: Chinese Students and the Internationalisation of Higher Education.

 

 

Rethinking the Family in Israel

 

This is a special post written by guest editor Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui on why the topic of the family in Israel was chosen for Volume 28, Issue 2 of Israel Studies Review.

 

 

Israel is a society of paradoxes. It defines itself as a Jewish and democratic state that strives to institutionalize equality for all the Israeli citizens, but does not accept the basic idea of Israel as a state for all its citizens. It declares that it wants to promote peace, even though it has been involved in war from its very inception, at the very beginning of the Zionist settlement. Moreover, the state of Israel was created so that the Jewish people would become a “normal” people, but de facto, its approach is that of “a people that will dwell alone and not think itself one of the nations”.

 

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