CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Condulescu, Tiberiu |
|---|---|
| Title | Geopolitics and Foreign Policy. The Case of Israel |
| Summary | The aim of the present research paper is to provide an accurate insight into the spatial and resource dimensions of Israeli geopolitics, with a special focus on territories and water, and determine how these ultimately influenced the foreign policy of the Jewish state by means of process tracing applied in the two sets of cases provided. Israeli foreign policy always had peculiar traits yet my claim is that it was always influenced by geopolitical considerations which will be called sui generis: geopolitical consciousness. As such land and water as part of this consciousness establish a nexus that was always at play in defining the actions of Israel in the region, be it a major peaceful or military enterprise or a mere part of it. The cases provided: the War of Independence, The Six Days War, the Camp David Accords and the Oslo Peace Process each bear the mark of the geopolitical consciousness of the state in some form. As findings come to suggest both land and water played a significant role in determining Israeli foreign policy in the region, which even though was broken down into three options proved to be much more complex than that with a multitude of shifts and overlaps among isolationism, expansionism and reconciliatory action. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics, Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/condulescu_tiberiu.pdf |
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