| Contents |
The legal, intelligence, and policy sources of the Israeli policies -- The internationally agreed upon standards for recognizing POWs/MIAs and the Israeli working definitions -- The intelligence dimension of taking and losing POWs -- Early indications of an emerging policy : strategic defeats and tactical successes, 1949-1955 -- Israel and the Arab nation states : the emerging POW rules in light of the regional battlefields, 1955-1967 -- De facto policy in the shadow of a coming war, 1955-1956 -- Israel extends its own working interpretation of the term POW : prisoner issues in the wake of the 1956 conflict to late 1962 -- New regimes, old policies, and the connection between regime changes and the fate of Israeli agents in hostile hands, 1963-1967 -- The 1967 war : extending the Israeli definition of POWs -- Israel, the state actors and the sub-national players : new rules, parallel systems and the merging of the two, the fourth generation -- The 1967-1970 crucial interregnum : the challenging legacy of the war of attrition -- Black September, sub-national actors, and the early internationalization of the hostage/POW issue, 1970-1973 -- The 1973 war as a watershed line and the dramatic shift to defensive POW policies -- Fourth generation approaches taking over : POWs and hostages as a means for smaller powers to gain parity with Israel -- The Palestinian sub-state actors taking over : from POWs to hostages? The effect of fourth generation players on the making of POW policies, 1974-1985 -- Sub-national actors taking center stage in the pow context: 1986 to 2011. |
| Abstract |
Israeli Prisoner of War Policies: From the 1949 Armistice to the 2006 Kidnappings examines the development of Israel's policies toward prisoners of war across multiple conflicts. The book seeks to apply the lessons of Israel's complex POW policies to conflicts around the world. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bligh, Alexander, 1949- author. Israeli prisoner of war policies Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017 9780739194713 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016056123 |
| ISBN | 9780739194720 (epub) |
