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Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War / Amnon Aran

Aran, Amnon, 1971- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press [2021], 2021

xxi, 433 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Aran, Amnon : Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War / Aran, Amnon (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-107-05249-9 (hardback)

978-1-107-28061-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2021000610

OCoLC: 1237249419     

DS119.6

327.5694     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: World politics -- 1989- ; Israel -- Foreign relations

"The end of the Cold War ushered in a new period in Israeli foreign policy, situating it in an unprecedented strong strategic position. The collapse of the Soviet Union, which had supported Israel's Arab foes, ended the bipolar world order and established the United States (US), Israel's closest ally, as the world's sole superpower. Shortly, thereafter, in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a US-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait, exposed deep divisions within the Arab world, and weakened the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which supported the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, during the conflict. These dramatic international shifts were coupled with changes within Israel. The successful restructuring of the Israeli economy via the 1985 Economic Emergency Stability Plan (EESP), and arrival of close to a million immigrants from the former USSR, greatly increased Israel's state capacity to seize the opportunities and tackle the challenges generated by the end of the Cold War"--