Yossi Alpher

Periphery

Israel's Search for Middle East Allies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781442231016
• ISBN-10: 1442231017
• Artikelnr.: 39533327

Autorenporträt

By Yossi Alpher

Inhaltsangabe

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