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Israel's Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World - Engaging the Periphery (Hardcover)
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Israel's Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World - Engaging the Periphery (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
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For over 60 years, Israel's foreign policy establishment has looked
at its regional policy through the lens of a geopolitical concept
named "the periphery doctrine." The idea posited that due to the
fundamental hostility of neighboring Arab countries, Israel ought
to counterbalance this threat by engaging with the "periphery" of
the Arab world through clandestine diplomacy. Based on original
research in the Israeli diplomatic archives and interviews with key
past and present decision-makers, this book shows that this concept
of a periphery was, and remains, a core driver of Israel's foreign
policy. The periphery was borne out of the debates among Zionist
circles concerning the geopolitics of the nascent Israeli State.
The evidence from Israel's contemporary policies shows that these
principles survived the historical relationships with some
countries (Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia) and were emulated in other
cases: Azerbaijan, Greece, South Sudan, and even to a certain
extent in the attempted exchanges by Israel with Gulf Arab
kingdoms. The book enables readers to understand Israel's
pessimistic - or realist, in the traditional sense - philosophy
when it comes to the conduct of foreign policy. The history of the
periphery doctrine sheds light on fundamental issues, such as
Israel's role in the regional security system, its overreliance on
military and intelligence cooperation as tools of diplomacy, and
finally its enduring perception of inextricable isolation. Through
a detailed appraisal of Israel's periphery doctrine from its birth
in the fifties until its contemporary renaissance, this book offers
a new perspective on Israel's foreign policy, and will appeal to
students and scholars of Middle East Politics and History, and
International Relations.
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