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100 1 Alpher, Joseph.
245 10 Periphery :|bIsrael's search for Middle East allies /
|cYossi Alpher.
264 1 Lanham, Maryland :|bRowman & Littlefield,|c2015.
300 xxiv, 171 pages ;|c24 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent.
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia.
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 "Since its establishment after World War II, the State of
Israel has sought alliances with non-Arab and non-Muslim
countries and minorities in the Middle East, as well as
Arab states geographically distant from the Arab-Israel
conflict. The text presents and explains this regional
orientation and its continuing implications for war and
peace. It examines Israel's strategy of outflanking, both
geographically and politically, the hostile Sunni Arab
Middle East core that surrounded it in the early decades
of its sovereign history, a strategy that became a pillar
of the Israeli foreign and defense policy. This "periphery
doctrine" was a grand strategy, meant to attain the major
political-security goal of countering Arab hostility
through relations with alternative regional powers and
potential allies. It was quietly abandoned when the Sadat
initiative and the emerging coexistence between Israel and
Jordan reflected a readiness on the part of the Sunni Arab
core to deal with Israel politically rather than
militarily. For a brief interval following the 1991 Madrid
conference and the 1993 Oslo accords, Israel seemed to be
accepted by all its neighbors, prompting then Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres to muse that it could even consider
joining the Arab League. Yet this periphery strategy had
been internalized to some extent in Israel's strategic
thinking and it began to reappear after 2010, following a
new era of Arab revolution. The rise of political Islam in
Egypt, Turkey, Gaza, southern Lebanon and possibly Syria,
coupled with the Islamic regime in Iran, has generated
concern in Israel that it is again being surrounded by a
ring of hostile states--in this case, Islamists rather
than Arab nationalists. 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, and
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. Written in an
accessible manner for all students, it provides a better
understanding of Israel's role in the Middle East region
and its Middle East identity."--Publisher's description.
650 0 National security|zIsrael.
651 0 Israel|xForeign relations.
651 0 Israel|xForeign relations|zMiddle East.
651 0 Middle East|xForeign relations|zIsrael.
907 .b76522040|b04-12-16|c10-02-15
910 OCLC BibNote|bMaster record variable field(s) change: 520
910 OCLC BibNote|bMaster record variable field(s) change: 100
910 RDA ENRICHED
910 ybp
910 Backstage
910 TOC
910 Hathi Trust report SPM
910 BrownU
970 01 |tPreface|pxi
970 01 |tAcknowledgments|pxv
970 01 |tIntroduction|pxvii
970 11 |lI.|tThe Periphery Doctrine at Work
970 11 |l1.|tEvolution of a Grand Strategy|p3
970 11 |l2.|tThe Northern Triangle: Iran and Turkey|p11
970 11 |l3.|tMorocco|p25
970 11 |l4.|tThe Southern Periphery|p29
970 11 |l5.|tThe Levant Minorities|p41
970 11 |l6.|tThe Kurds of Northern Iraq|p51
970 11 |l7.|tThe Jewish Dimension|p61
970 11 |l8.|tThe American Dimension|p65
970 11 |l9.|tEnd of the First Periphery, 1973--1983|p71
970 11 |lII.|tRamifications
970 11 |l10.|tIran: Periphery Nostalgia and Its Costs|p77
970 11 |l11.|tIsraeli Skeptics|p87
970 11 |l12.|tBetween Peripheries: Peace, Isolation, and Islam
|p95
970 11 |l13.|tIs There a New Periphery?|p105
970 11 |l14.|tArab Reaction|p125
970 11 |lIII.|tConclusion
970 11 |l15.|tCan Israel Find a Regional Identity?|p135
970 11 |tHeads of Mossad|p149
970 11 |tPersons Interviewed|p151
970 11 |lMap 1 |tThe Original Periphery Concept|p153
970 11 |lMap 2 |tThe Expanded Southern Periphery|p155
970 11 |lMap 3 |tThe Ethnic Periphery|p157
970 11 |lMap 4 |tA New Periphery?|p159
970 01 |tIndex|p161
970 01 |tAbout the Author|p171
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