Product Description: How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.

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Product Description: In The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysis of the new world disorder of the twenty-first century. The contemporary world, claims Joxe, is dominated by the American empire but not ordered by it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)