Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox--needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel's troubled attempts to balance its desire to be different from a world that it simultaneously genuinely needs and that it also wants to be a legitimate member of.

1Introduction: Israel's Unsettled Relations with the World: Causes and Consequences- Emanuel Adler 2The State of Israel and the Negation of the Exile - Michael Walzer 3 Cosmopolitanism: Good for Israel? Or Bad for Israel? - Michael Barnett 4 Israel's Dichotomous Attitude towards International Humanitarian Law: Causes, Consequences, and Implications -Amichai Cohen & Stuart Cohen 5Israel in the World: The Democracy Factor - Naomi Chazan 6 Israel: The Shard in a Fragmenting Legal Order - Janice Gross Stein 7 Four States, Two People, One Solution: Can Israel Maintain Its Identity - Zvi Bar'el 8 Judaism and Islam in the World - Michael Melchior

Emanuel Adler is the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies and Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His publications include The Power of Ideology; Security Communities; Communitarian International Relations; Convergence of Civilizations, and International Practices. His current research includes projects on international practices and the evolution of international order and Israel's relations with the world.