Israel's changing geostrategic posture

• Authors: Ehud Eiran

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyzes Israel's changing understanding of its geostrategic posture from its establishment in 1948 to the current era. It starts by reviewing traditional Israeli geostrategic ideas and their implementation, mostly, as reflected in the nation's national security doctrine. The paper then investigates the efect of Israel's territorial expansion after 1967 on Israeli ideas about geostrategy. Finally, the paper shows how changing global, regional, and technological variables in the last two decades have transformed how Israeli elites understand their geostrategic realities and how they allocate resources in response to these changing conditions.

Keywords

EN

Israel; Middle East; geostrategy; Mediterranean; natural gas; Jews

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Ehud Eiran

• Department of International Relations, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

• https://orcid.org/000000023092527X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2022-0007

Biblioteka Nauki

2116986