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'If peace is important to you - or scares you - Tamar Hermann's hard-nosed assessment of the Israeli peace movement is a must-read. Many of its policy positions have been internalized by much of the public, yet the movement has been impotent in creating the momentum to bring about peace. Hermann's solid analysis reminds us that being right (correct) on the left demands hard work and political skill.' Asher Arian, Israel Democracy Institute and City University of New York 'A thorough and theoretically and empirically based - as well as extremely well-informed - analysis, Hermann's book will certainly stand out as the definitive work on the Israeli peace movement. The author's sensitivity to the nuances, dilemmas, and complexities of the peace movement in periods of dramatically changing circumstances provides a unique and insightful as well as comprehensive study.' Galia Golan, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya 'Professor Tamar Hermann has written a penetrating analysis of the difficulties faced by the Israeli peace movement and the reasons for its political marginalization, despite the impetus it received from the Oslo peace process. This fine book, which also pays due regard to the peace movement's positive impact, is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and to research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.' Adrian Guelke, Queen's University of Belfast 'This important book seeks to answer the paradoxical question: why did the Israeli peace movement - so critical in the 1980s in building a context and infrastructure for peace in Israel - become so ostracized and begin a fatal decline in the 1990s, just when the prospects for peace seemed brightest? Tamar Hermann assesses the obvious answer - terrorism - but goes far deeper in this rich and highly interesting study.' Daniel C. Kurtzer, Princeton University 'Tamar Hermann provides an exhaustive and revealing study of Israel's peace movement ... [he] skilfully explores the socio-political and structural difficulties that have hindered the ability of the Israeli peace movement to emerge from the margins of Israeli politics ... illuminating insights ... emerge from the book ...' International Affairs This is as rich, full, detailed, and complex a book on the Israeli peace movement as can be imagined. It is a tour de force....The book is extraordinarily rich in observations and insights....The reader is left with a superbly nuanced and lucid understanding of the virtues and limits of the Israeli peace movement throughout its history. - Gordon Fellman, Brandeis University, Israel Studies Forum If peace is important to you - or scares you - Tamar Hermann's hard-nosed assessment of the Israeli peace movement is a must-read. Many of its policy positions have been internalized by much of the public, yet the movement has been impotent in creating the momentum to bring about peace. Hermann's solid analysis reminds us that being right (correct) on the left demands hard work and political skill. - Asher Arian, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, City University of New York A thorough and theoretically and empirically based - as well as extremely well-informed -analysis, Hermann's book will certainly stand out as the definitive work on the Israeli peace movement. The author's sensitivity to the nuances, dilemmas, and complexities of the peace movement in periods of dramatically changing circumstances provides a unique and insightful as well as comprehensive study. - Galia Golan, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya Professor Tamar Hermann has written a penetrating analysis of the difficulties faced by the Israeli peace movement and the reasons for its political marginalization, despite the impetus it received from the Oslo peace process. This fine book, which also pays due regard to the peace movement's positive impact, is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and to research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. - Adrian Guelke, Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University of Belfast This important book seeks to answer the paradoxical question: why did the Israeli peace movement - so critical in the 1980s in building a context and infrastructure for peace in Israel - become so ostracized and begin a fatal decline in the 1990s, just when the prospects for peace seemed brightest? Tamar Hermann assesses the obvious answer - terrorism - but goes far deeper in this rich and highly interesting study. - Daniel C. Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

'If peace is important to you - or scares you - Tamar Hermann's hard-nosed assessment of the Israeli peace movement is a must-read. Many of its policy positions have been internalized by much of the public, yet the movement has been impotent in creating the momentum to bring about peace. Hermann's solid analysis reminds us that being right (correct) on the left demands hard work and political skill.' Asher Arian, Israel Democracy Institute and City University of New York 'A thorough and theoretically and empirically based - as well as extremely well-informed - analysis, Hermann's book will certainly stand out as the definitive work on the Israeli peace movement. The author's sensitivity to the nuances, dilemmas, and complexities of the peace movement in periods of dramatically changing circumstances provides a unique and insightful as well as comprehensive study.' Galia Golan, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya 'Professor Tamar Hermann has written a penetrating analysis of the difficulties faced by the Israeli peace movement and the reasons for its political marginalization, despite the impetus it received from the Oslo peace process. This fine book, which also pays due regard to the peace movement's positive impact, is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and to research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.' Adrian Guelke, Queen's University of Belfast 'This important book seeks to answer the paradoxical question: why did the Israeli peace movement - so critical in the 1980s in building a context and infrastructure for peace in Israel - become so ostracized and begin a fatal decline in the 1990s, just when the prospects for peace seemed brightest? Tamar Hermann assesses the obvious answer - terrorism - but goes far deeper in this rich and highly interesting study.' Daniel C. Kurtzer, Princeton University 'Tamar Hermann provides an exhaustive and revealing study of Israel's peace movement ... [he] skilfully explores the socio-political and structural difficulties that have hindered the ability of the Israeli peace movement to emerge from the margins of Israeli politics ... illuminating insights ... emerge from the book ...' International Affairs

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Tamar Hermann is a Professor of Political Science and Dean of Academic Studies at the Open University (OU) of Israel. She also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a co-director of the Peace Index project at Tel Aviv University. Her present research examines the growing estrangement of citizens in many representative democracies from politics and the politicians and is meant to assess the potential outcomes of this process in terms of democratic governability and stability.

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