The Future of the Jews

How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States

By (author) Stuart E. Eizenstat White House Domestic Policy Adviser to President Carter and author of Presi Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert

Publication date:

03 May 2012

Length of book:

376 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

236x160mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781442216273

In The Future of the Jews, Stuart E. Eizenstat, a senior diplomat of international reputation, surveys the major geopolitical, economic, and security challenges facing the world in general, and the Jewish world and the United States in particular. These forces include the shift of power and influence from the United States and Europe to the emerging powers in Asia and Latin America; globalization and the new information age; the battle for the direction of the Muslim world; nontraditional security threats; changing demographics, which pose a particular challenge for Jews worldwide and the rise of a new anti-Semitism that seeks to delegitimize Israel as a Jewish state. He also discusses the enduring nature of and challenges to the strategic alliance between the United States and Israel. Eizenstat’s provocative analysis will be of interest to everyone concerned about the future of Jews worldwide and in Israel and the United States’ role in a world that is confronting unprecedented simultaneous, cataclysmic changes.

Foreword by Martin Gilbert
Uncharted Waters Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Historic Shift of Power from the West to the Emerging Nations of the East and South: A New Multipolar World
Chapter 2: Globalization: A More Integrated World
Chapter 3: The Struggle for the Direction of Islam: The Rise of Islamic Extremism
Chapter 4: Non-Traditional Global Security Risks
Chapter 5: Israel and the New Challenge of Delegitimization
Chapter 6: The Future of the U.S.-Israeli Relationship

The fact that Stuart E. Eizenstat is truly 'the epitome of the history of his own family' places both his decades of public service and his outstanding book, The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States, in historical context and perspective. It is precisely because Eizenstat writes as a committed Jew who has always been guided by Jewish ethical and religious values that The Future of the Jews is, in the words of the former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Itamar Rabinovich, 'mandatory reading for Jews and Israelis who must adapt old policies and institutions to new conditions and for non-Jews who want to understand the concern of an unusually successful yet vulnerable people.'