Israeli Statecraft: National Security Challenges and Responses

ISBN-13: 9780415832311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

Yehezkel Dror

Opis

This book offers a systematic examination, analysis and evaluation of Israeli national security statecraft in terms of challenges and responses.

Providing an in-depth analysis of Israeli statecraft challenges and responses, this interdisciplinary book integrates social science and security studies with public policy approaches within a long-term historical perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict. These scholarly approaches are synthesized with extensive personal knowledge of the author based on involvement in Israeli political-security policy making. This book makes use of conceptualizations of statecraft such as 'fuzzy gambling' and interventions with critical mass in ultra-dynamic historical processes to help clarify Israel's main statecraft successes and failures, alongside the wider theoretical apparatuses these concepts represent. While focused on Israel, these theoretical frameworks have important implications for the academic study of statecraft and statecraft praxis worldwide.

This book will be of much interest to both statecraft practitioners and to students of Israeli politics and security, the Middle Eastern conflict, strategic studies and IR/security studies in general.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Israel's Uniqueness  3. Value Compass  4. Israel's Arena: The Twenty-First Century World  5. Turning Points  6. Mega-Trends  7. Contingencies and Response  8. Fateful Fuzzy Gamble: Confronting Iran  9. Conflict Morphology  10. Conflict System Dynamics Proto-Model  11. Statecraft Response: Heroic Achievements, Dismal Failures  12. Intermezzo: Crafting Novel Statecraft Paradigms  13. "Israeli Embassy in Riyadh" Peace Paradigm  14. "Jekyll and Hyde" Violence Paradigm  15. "Dwelling in the World" Global Paradigm  16. Epilogue: Statecraft Knowledge for What?