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Tal, David (2023) An arms deal as a bargaining chip: Israel and the AWACS deal. Diplomatic History: the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. ISSN 0145-2096

Tal, David (2023) The Judeo - Christian tradition and the US-Israel special relationship. Diplomacy and Statecraft. ISSN 0959-2296 (Accepted)

Tal, David (2023) Ronald Reagan and Menachem Begin: bridge across stormy waters. The International History Review. pp. 1-17. ISSN 0707-5332

Tal, David (2022) Between realism and idealism: trends and developments in the study of US-Israel relationship. Iyunim betoldot Israel. (Accepted)

Tal, David (2021) United States – Israel relations (1953-1957) revisited. Israel studies, 26 (1). pp. 24-46. ISSN 1084-9513

Tal, David (2018) Jacqueline Kahanoff and the demise of the Levantine. Mediterranean Historical Review, 32 (2). pp. 237-254. ISSN 0951-8967

Tal, David (2017) Between politics and politics of identity: the case of the Arab Jews. Journal of Levantine Studies, 7 (1). pp. 57-7. ISSN 2222-9973

Tal, David (2016) Who needed the October 1973 War? Middle Eastern Studies, 52 (5). pp. 737-753. ISSN 0026-3206

Tal, David (2015) What is new in the first Arab-Israeli war? A historiographical discussion. Alei Zait Ve’Herev (Hebrew), 15. pp. 65-89.

Tal, David (2014) A tested alliance: the American airlift to Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Israel Studies, 19 (3). pp. 29-54. ISSN 1065-7711

Tal, David (2013) 'Absolutes' and 'stages' in the making and application of Nixon's SALT policy. Diplomatic History, 37 (5). pp. 1090-1116. ISSN 1090-1116

Tal, David (2011) David Ben Gurion's teleological westernism. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 10 (3). pp. 351-354. ISSN 1472-5886

Tal, David (2009) The making, operation and failure of the May 1950 tripartite declaration on Middle East security. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 36 (2). pp. 177-193. ISSN 1353-0194

Tal, David (2008) From the Open Skies proposal of 1955 to the Norstad Plan 1960: a plan too far. Journal of Cold War Studies, 10 (4). pp. 66-93. ISSN 1520-3972

Tal, David (2007) Israel's concept of preemptive war. Syracuse Law Review, 57 (3). pp. 601-618. ISSN 0039-7938

Tal, David (2006) The Secretary of State versus the Secretary of Peace: the Dulles-Stassen controversy and US disarmament policy, 1955-58. Journal of Contemporary History, 41 (4). 721-740+782. ISSN 0022-0094

Tal, D (2006) Weapons without influence: British arms supply policy and the Egyptian-Czech arms deal, 1945-55. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 34 (3). pp. 369-388. ISSN 0308-6534

Tal, David (2005) The historiography of the 1948 war in Palestine: the missing dimension. The Journal of Israeli History, 24 (2). pp. 183-202. ISSN 1353-1042

Tal, David (2004) Between intuition and professionalism: Israeli military leadership during the 1948 Palestine war. Journal of Military History, 68 (3). pp. 885-910. ISSN 0899-3718

Tal, David (2003) Israel’s war of independence (1948): Ben Gurion’s war. Iyyunim Bit'qumat Yisra'el, 13. pp. 115-138. ISSN 0792-7169

Tal, David (2003) The evacuation of Jewish non-belligerents from the border area in the 1948 Palestine war. Israel, 4. pp. 61-81.

Tal, David (2002) Did Israel win the 1948 Palestine war? Z'manim: quarterly of history, 80. pp. 42-55. ISSN 0333-7219

Tal, David (2001) Who Stopped the Egyptian Invasion to Palestine in the 1948 War? Iyunim, 10. pp. 102-121.

Tal, D (2001) Seizing opportunities: Israel and the 1958 crisis in the Middle East. Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (1). pp. 142-158. ISSN 0026-3206

Tal, David (2001) Eisenhower's disarmament dilemma: from chance for peace to open skies proposal. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 12 (2). pp. 175-196. ISSN 0959-2296

Tal, David (2000) Symbol or substance? Israel’s campaign to acquire Hawk Missiles, 1960-1962. International History Review, 22 (2). pp. 304-317. ISSN 0707-5332

Tal, David (2000) The forgotten war: the Jewish-Palestinian strife in Palestine, December 1947 - May 1948. Israel Affairs, 6 (3-4). pp. 3-21. ISSN 1353-7121

Tal, David (1998) Plan D’: Master Plan or Need of the Hour? Zmanim. pp. 52-62.

Tal, David (1998) “Plan D’: master plan or need of the hour? Z'manim: quarterly of history, 61. pp. 52-62. ISSN 0333-7219

Tal, David (1996) Ben Gurion, Sharett and Dayan: Confrontation over the Issue of Preemptive War, 1955. Cathedra: quarterly for the history of Eretz-Israel, 81. pp. 109-122. ISSN 0334-4657

Tal, David (1996) Ben Gurion, Sharett and Dayan: confrontation over the issue of preemptive war, 1955. Cathedra: quarterly for the history of Eretz-Israel, 81. pp. 109-122. ISSN 0334-4657

Tal, David (1996) Israel's way to the 1956 war. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 28 (1). pp. 59-81. ISSN 0020-7438

Tal, David (1995) American-Israeli security treaty: sequel or means to the relief of Israeli-Arab tensions, 1954-1955. Middle Eastern Studies, 31 (4). pp. 829-848. ISSN 0026-3206

Tal, David (1994) The local commanders agreement (Israel-Jordan): failure of direct negotiations. Cathedra: quarterly for the history of Eretz-Israel, 71. pp. 116-149. ISSN 0334-4657

Book Section

Tal, David (2021) Israel’s Wars. In: Hazan, Reuven Y, Dowty, Alan, Hofnung, Menachem and Rahat, Gideon (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, pp. 105-120. ISBN 9780190675585

Tal, David (2016) Paving the road to war: Israeli diplomacy and the 1967 crisis. In: Global Politics: Essays in Honour of David Vital. Routledge, London, pp. 201-218. ISBN 9780714651743

Tal, David (2014) Civilian settlement: not designed to be a fortress of power. In: Kurz, Anat and Brom, Shlomo (eds.) The Lessons of Operation Protective Edge. The Institute for National Security Studies, Israel, pp. 151-158. ISBN 9789657425732

Tal, David (2014) "Rüstungsmaßnahmen sind keine Ursache, sondern eine Folge": das Erbe Wilsons und die atomare Abrüstungspolitik der Vereinigten Staate. In: Bernhard, Patrick and Nehring, Holger (eds.) Den Kalten Krieg Denken: Beiträge zur sozialen Ideengeschichte seit 1945. Klartext Verlag, Essen, pp. 91-102. ISBN 9783837507393

Tal, David (2013) Israel in or of the Middle East. In: Israeli Identity: Between Orient and Occident. Taylor & Francis, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780203382905

Tal, D (2008) The 1956 Sinai war: a watershed in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In: Smith, Simon C (ed.) Reassessing Suez 1956: new perspectives on the crisis and its aftermath. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Burlington, VT, pp. 133-147. ISBN 978-075466170-2

Tal, David (2006) The burden of alliance: the NPT negotiations and the NATO factor. In: Nuenlist, Christian and Locher, Anna (eds.) Transatlantic relations at stake: aspects of NATO, 1956-1972. CSS Zürcher Beiträge (78). Center for Security Studies, Zurich, pp. 97-124.

Tal, David (2004) Israel’s armistice wars, 1949-1956. In: Bar-On, Mordechai (ed.) A never-ending conflict: a guide to Israeli military history. Praeger, Westport, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9780275981587

Book

Tal, David (2017) US strategic arms policy in the Cold War: negotiation and confrontation over SALT, 1969-79. Cold War History . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138632646

Tal, David (2008) The American nuclear disarmament dilemma, 1945-1963. Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution . Syracuse University Press, New York. ISBN 9780815631668

Tal, David (2004) War in Palestine 1948: Israeli and Arab strategy and diplomacy. Israeli history, politics and society . Routledge, Oxon. ISBN 9780714652757

Tal, David (1998) Israel’s conception of current security: origins and development, 1949-1956. Ben Gurion University Press, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Edited Book

Tal, David (2013) Israel identity: between Orient and Occident. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415820219

Tal, David, ed. (2001) The 1956 war: collusion and rivalry in the Middle East. Cummings Center Series . Frank Cass, London. ISBN 9780714643946