Israel's Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World: Engaging the Periphery

ISBN-13: 9780367890810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Jean-Loup Samaan

Opis

This book looks at Israel’s periphery doctrine, a foreign policy concept that aims to overcome the country’s regional isolation caused by Arab hostility by conducting a policy of cooperation with the non-Arab countries of the region.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: The Genesis of the Periphery Doctrine 1. The intellectual foundations of the periphery  2. The Shaping of Israel's security establishment  Part II: Deconstructing the periphery doctrine  3. The enduring ambiguities of Turkey-Israel relations  4. The Israeli-Iranian relationship: from close ally to existential threat  5. Israel's errand in the remote areas of the periphery  Part III: Change and continuity in the periphery approach  6. The new periphery calculus  7. Towards the periphery of all?  Conclusion

O autorze

Jean-Loup Samaan is an associate professor in strategic studies with the Near East South Asia Center. Prior to that, he served for five years as lecturer and deputy director of the Middle East Faculty at the NATO Defense College.