About the Author

Michael Brecher is professor of political science at McGill Uni-versity and the director of the In-ternational Crisis Behavior Proj-ect. Among his publications are The Foreign Policy System of Is-rael (1972) and Decisions in Isra-el's Foreign Policy (1974, 1975). His most recent book is Crisis, Coping, Decisions: Israel 1967, 1973 (with the collaboration of Benjamin Geist), published in 1979.