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This detailed examination of Israeli foreign policy towards the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) between the 1967 war and
the 2009 conflict between Israel and Hamas, focuses on the impact
and process of globalization on the Israeli state’s politics,
economy, society and culture. Employing globalization theory and
foreign policy analysis (FPA), causal relationships underpinning
Israeli foreign policy – involving government, the state,
the economy, social stratification, and the media – are linked
to globalization by specific example. To date there have been only
partial historical accounts of Israeli foreign policy towards the
PLO in the context of globalization. It is generally understood
that foreign policy towards the PLO became entangled with globalization
due to the socio-economic and cultural globalization of Israel in
the mid-1980s. However, this study shows that the impact of globalization
on Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO has been shaped by four
phases, each representing a different type and consequently producing
a different outcome, of interrelationships between foreign policy
and globalization. During the 1967–1973 period (the first
phase), globalization and Israeli foreign policy were disconnected.
Between 1973 and 1984 (the second phase) significant interrelationships
developed between the political and military globalization of Israel
and its foreign policy towards the PLO. During the 1985–1999
period (the third phase), the scope of these interrelationships
expanded as Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO became interrelated
with the economic, social and cultural aspects of globalization.
The fourth phase, from 1999 to the present, can be termed a hybrid
phase, during which political, military, economic, social, and cultural
impacts of globalization, jointly impacted on Israel’s foreign
policy towards the PLO.
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Acknowledgements
Glossary of Terms
Introduction
1 The Formation of Israeli Foreign Policy towards
the PLO
2 Globalization, the Cold War, and the Entrenchment
of the Hard-Line Stance
3 The Reformulation of Israeli Foreign Policy
towards the PLO and the Changing Dynamics of Globalization
4 From Oslo to Unilateralism amid the Global
War on Terror
Conclusion: From the Cold War to the Global War on
Terror – The Impact of Globalization on Israeli Foreign
Policy towards the PLO
Epilogue: From the Disengagement from Gaza to Operation Cast
Lead
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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“In
a field replete with partisan, single-factor and often repetitive
approaches, Dr. Amnon Aran has provided an original and commanding
analysis. Breaking with the convention, shared by both sides, of
analysing the Palestinian question solely in terms of the actions
of states, regional and international, he shows how it is the broader
process of globalization, as this has developed since the 1970s,
which has had a powerful impact on the evolution of the conflict.
Challenging at once conventional wisdom on the Arab–Israeli
dispute, and the broader theoretical disjuncture between studies
of foreign policy and of globalization, Dr. Aran has made a multi-layered
and signal contribution to contemporary debates within International
Relations.” Fred Halliday, Emeritus Professor of International
Relations, LSE, author of The Middle East in International
Relations (CUP, 2005)
“Aran examines Israeli foreign policy
towards the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) between the
1967 war and 2005, with a focus on the impact of globalization.
He uses globalization theory and foreign policy analysis to connect
globalization to the government, the state, the economy, social
stratification, and the media, showing the impact and varied outcomes
of four phases: the disconnection between globalization and foreign
policy between 1967 and 1973; the development of relationships between
the political and military globalization from 1973 and 1984; the
expansion of foreign policy as it became related to the economic,
social, and cultural aspects of globalization from 1985–1999;
and the hybrid phase from 1999 to the present, in which political,
military, economic, social, and cultural impacts of globalization
all influenced foreign policy. He does not provide a comprehensive
account of Israel’s policy toward the PLO, but focuses on
globalization and foreign policy, and therefore does not examine
in detail such topics as the Jewish settler movement and the fragmented
Israeli political system, or environmental globalization.”
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180 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
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Hardback September 2009; paperback
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