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Israel and the Cold War - Diplomacy, Strategy and the Policy of the Periphery at the United Nations (Hardcover)
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Israel and the Cold War - Diplomacy, Strategy and the Policy of the Periphery at the United Nations (Hardcover)
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In the wake of its creation in 1948, the state of Israel was
confronted with the challenge of establishing foreign relations
with key players in the region, in the face of opposition from most
of the Arab states. Howard Patten explores the genesis and
development of Israel's foreign relations with Iran, Turkey and
Ethiopia, known as the 'Policy of the Periphery'. Highlighting the
pragmatism and Realpolitik at the heart of this policy, Israel and
the Cold War analyses the national interests and mutual concerns
which shaped relations and strategy at the United Nations during
the critical moments of the establishment of the State of Israel
and the following forty years, before the ramifications of the
Iranian Revolution became apparent. During this period, Israel made
efforts to create pragmatic alliances behind closed doors at the
UN, even as ambivalence and hostility reigned in the public sphere.
Patten thus examines the implications that the Cold War system of
ideological combat had on these attempts to maintain implicit, yet
cordial understandings, as world events - such as the Suez Crisis
of 1956, successive crises over Cyprus and the Ethiopian and
Iranian Revolutions - tested the 'Policy of the Periphery'. 'Israel
and the Cold War' traces the development of Israel's relations with
these three states, from their initial beginnings to consolidation,
then rejection and subsequent efforts to realign. Patten highlights
the extensive diplomatic and military reverberations that occurred
throughout the region, and the way in which these were played out
at the UN. Based primarily on UN documents, this book is a vital
primary resource for those researching the period in question and
the formulation of foreign policy in the Middle East.
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