1. See, for example, many of the chapters in Peter Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996); Thomas Banchoff, `German Identity and European Integration', European Journal of International Relations 5, no. 3 (1999); Jeffrey Checkel, Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

2. Shmuel Sandler, The State of Israel, The Land of Israel: The Statist and Ethnonational Dimensions of Foreign Policy (Boulder: Greenwood Press, 1993); Yoav Peled and Gershon Shafir, `The Roots of Peacemaking: The Dynamic of Citizenship in Israel', International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 27, no. 3 (1996): 391—413.

3. For two articles that explain Israel's decision to adopt the Oslo Accords from a Constructivist perspective see Michael Barnett, `Culture, Strategy and Foreign Policy Change: Israel's Road to Oslo', European Journal of International Relations 5, no. 1 (1999): 5—36; Jonathan Rynhold, `Cultural Shift and Foreign Policy Change: Israel and the Making of the Oslo Accords', Cooperation and Conflict 42, no. 4 (2007).

4. Shmuel Sandler and Jonathan Rynhold, `The Rise of Neo-Centrism', in Shmuel Sandler, Jonathan Rynhold and Manfred Gerstenfeld, Israel at the Polls 2006 (London: Routledge, 2008).

5. Ibid.

6. Kenneth Stern, Fighting Anti-Semitism Today (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), Ch. 5.

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