Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups: American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel

Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups: American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel
ISBN-10
0313268509
ISBN-13
9780313268502
Category
Political Science
Pages
197
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Greenwood Publishing Group
Author
David H. Goldberg

Description

Goldberg presents a detailed comparison of American and Canadian Jewish lobbying organizations over the past 15 years, offering a careful assessment of their influence on foreign policy decisions affecting the Middle East. He focuses primarily on the two most prominent Jewish foreign policy interest groups: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Canada-Israel Committee. He examines the response of these organizations to a series of crisis issues, beginning with the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and including the current Palestinian uprising. Using a set of analytical criteria, he correlates their response with the conduct of U.S. and Canadian foreign policy during the same period.

Similar books