Israel's Foreign Policy Towards the PLO : The Impact of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9781845194833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 182 str.

Amnon Aran

Opis

This detailed examination of Israeli foreign policy towards the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) between the 1967 war and the 2009 conflict between Israel and Hamas, focuses on the impact and process of globalization on the Israeli state s politics, economy, society, and culture. Employing globalization theory and foreign policy analysis, causal relationships underpinning Israeli foreign policy involving government, the state, the economy, social stratification, and the media are linked to globalization by specific example. To date there have been only partial historical accounts of Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO in the context of globalization, however, this study shows that the impact of globalization on Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO has been shaped by four phases, each representing a different type and consequently producing a different outcome, of interrelationships between foreign policy and globalization. During the 1967 1973 period, globalization and Israeli foreign policy were disconnected. Between 1973 and 1984, the second phase, significant interrelationships developed between the political and military globalization of Israel and its foreign policy towards the PLO. During the 1985 1999 period, the scope of these interrelationships expanded as Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO became interrelated with the economic, social and cultural aspects of globalization. The fourth phase, from 1999 to the present, can be termed a hybrid phase, during which political, military, economic, social, and cultural impacts of globalization, jointly impacted on Israel s foreign policy towards the PLO."