Books by David Vital

How is foreign policy made? Who makes it? Does public opinion count at all? Originally published in 1968, this study represented the first attempt by a contemporary political scientist to pull together, in brief compass, all the relevant threads ¿ including the constitutional, the political, the institutional and the sociological.

This first volume of Vital's trilogy traces the roots of the movement from its source in Jewish tradition, concentrating on the crucial formative period from the onset of the great East-West migration of European Jews in 1881 to the first World Congress of Zionists in 1897, which marked the emergence of Zionism as an organized political force.