Periphery - Israels Search for Middle East Allies

The book analyzes Israel's strategic thinking about the Middle East region, evaluating its success or failure in maintaining both Israel's security and the viability of Israeli-American strategic cooperation. It looks at the importance of the periphery strategy for Israeli, moderate Arab, American, and European efforts to advance the Arab-Israel peace process, and its potential role as the Arab Spring brings about greater Islamization of the Arab Middle East. Already, Israeli strategic planners are talking of "spheres of containment" and "crescents" wherein countries like Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, and Ethiopia constitute a kind of new periphery. By looking at Israel's search for Middle East allies then and now, the book explores a key component of Israel's strategic behavior.

List of contents

For Whom it May Concern
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I.The Periphery Doctrine at Work
1.Evolution of a Grand Strategy
2.The Northern Triangle: Iran and Turkey
3.Morocco
4.The Southern Periphery
5.The Levant Minorities
6.The Kurds of Northern Iraq
7.The Jewish Dimension
8.The American Dimension
9.End of the First Periphery, 1973-1983

II.Ramifications
10.Iran: periphery nostalgia and its costs
11.Israeli skeptics
12.Between peripheries: peace, isolation and Islam
13.Is there a new periphery?
14.Arab reaction

III.Conclusion
15.Can Israel find a regional identity?

Heads of Mossad
Persons interviewed
Maps:
1.The original periphery concept
2.The expanded southern periphery
3.The ethnic periphery
4.A new periphery?
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Yossi Alpher

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Alpher, Yossi Alpher, Alpher Yossi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2015
• EAN: 9781442231016
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3101-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Israel Studies, Israeli Studies, Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East, Diplomacy