Israel's contested identity and the Mediterranean

Mediterranean Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-58

  Del Sarto, Raffaella A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RELATIONS; NATIONAL IDENTITY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL POLITICS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0041319035     PISSN: 13629395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13629390308010002     Document Type: Article

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