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Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups: American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel (Contributions in Political Science)
Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel - Contributions in Political Science Author:David Howard Goldberg 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 Com... more »mittee 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.« less