Jewish Studies Seminar: "Small State Thinking Big: Israel’s Periphery Pact in the Middle East", Dr Noa Schonmann (University of Oxford)
| Dates: | 18 April 2013 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Speaker: | Noa Schonmann |
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For small states, foreign policy is typically a matter of adjustment to reality, not rearrangement of it. Not so Israel. Barely a decade old and struggling to survive in a hostile environment, Israel first attempted to break the mould in 1958, when it embarked on an ambitious foreign policy initiative, which came to be known as the ‘Periphery Pact’. The policy sought to establish Israel as the pivot of a US-backed set of alliances that were to be forged with the nonArab states situated along the perimeter of the Middle East – Turkey and Iran
to the north, Ethiopia and Sudan to the south. Although the policy was effectively abandoned in the mid-1960s, the doctrine underlying left a distinctive imprint on Israeli statecraft for years to come. This presentation offers an historical study of the policy, tracing its conceptual origins and evolution, while critically examining its aims and achievements.
Speaker
Noa Schonmann
Organisation: University of Oxford
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