Periphery

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.