Yagil Levy is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Studies of Social Change at the New School for Social Research, New York.

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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The State's Construction of an Inequitable Social Structure
3. Bellicose Policy Drives Internal State Expansion and Vice Versa (1951-56)
4. The Six-Day War (1967): Expanding the War-Prone Circle
5. The Watershed Years (1968-81)
6. From Escalation to De-Escalation (1982-96)
7. Conclusions: Trial and Error
Notes
Bibliography
Index