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Ehud (Udi) Eiran MIT, 25 February 2011 Household issues y Papers y Reading y Attendance y Last week (Munich) y Where are we now? (implementation) What Needs Building? y What is a Nation? In and out of the state. y What is a State? Civil society? The

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Ehud (Udi) Eiran MIT, 25 February 2011

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Household issues

y Papers y Reading y Attendance y Last week (Munich) y Where are we now? (implementation)

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y What is a Nation? In and out of the state. y What is a State? Civil society?

What Needs Building?

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The state

Basics: How strong?

y Monopoly over violence y Tax collection y Policing y External defense y Rule making and adjudication

What Identity? Neutral or particular

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y A Zionist product or a colonial product? ‐ Institutions ‐ Their legacy (law, bureaucracy) ‐ Assumptions:

1. Immigration
2. Non‐opposition

y The state in the making: institutions, legacy, political

power, who is in and who is out

y The Jewish history of pluralism

The Israeli state: pre 1948

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y Ethnic identity/Norms: Particularist‐Universalist y Process: Majority vs. consensus y Where is Israel? Why? ‐ Coalition ‐ Separation of powers

Post 1948

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y Realities and their effect: the security challenge y y 1967 expansion (territories in or out?) y Demise (consensus) and rise (?) of civil war

(majoritarian)

y Global economy

Change over time?

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Immigration as a central feature

y Ideological meaning y Material meaning y Meaning vs. (emigration) y Social effects (first come, first builds) y Institutional effects: absorption, resource allocation y Potential tensions (indigenous, various waves. First

formative)

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Immigration as a central feature

y http://www.moia.gov.il/Moia_he/Statistics/Immigrati

nToIsraelPrevYears/ImmigrationData2009.htm

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Parody on Immigration

y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjDx2ZwLUs0

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y Tension between the pre‐state communal view and

post state civic vision

y Tension between civic and particularistic state y Tension between majoritarian and consensus routes y Tension re ideology: yearning vs. cynicism y An ideology that worked: Pride and over emphasis on

self‐ reliance and non‐rational reasons

Cultural effects?

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MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu

17.565 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, and Identity

Spring 2011 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.