...Sol Schindler Sol Schindler served with the US Information Agency for more than thirty years and has a keen interest in modes of thought that shape political thinking. Muravchik Joshua : Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned against Israel . New York : Encounter Books...

...A. Murat Agdemir There have been important changes in the politics of the eastern Mediterranean since the discovery of energy resources and the disintegration of Turkish-Israeli relations. Israel upgraded its relationship with Greece and Cyprus after its ties with Turkey deteriorated. Since shortly...

... states to ensure foreign policy coherence. The essay aims to fill this gap. It draws on empirical data from the EP's approach toward the Israel-Palestine conflict and aims to identify the ways the EP, although not directly and officially in charge of ensuring EU coherence, can contribute to promoting...

...Sol Schindler Copyright 2016 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2016 Ross Dennis : Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2015 . 496 pages ISBN 978-0-374-14146-02 . $30 (hardcover). Sol Schindler served...

...Jacob Abadi Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Jacob Abadi is professor of history at the United States Air Force Academy. MQ 11.4-03 Abadi 10/16/00 5:26 PM Page 40 Constraints and Adjustments in Greece’s Policy toward Israel...

...Kilic B. Kanat; Jackson Hannon On 27 June 2016, Turkey and Israel announced a deal to resolve the diplomatic crisis stemming from the Mavi Marmara incident of 2010. The countries also upgraded diplomatic relations to ambassadorial level. It is unlikely that Israel and Turkey will return...

...Joshua Walker Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Joshua Walker is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and a former Fulbright Fellow in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey and Israel’s Relationship in the Middle East...

...Bernard Reich Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Bernard Reich is professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Israel’s Quest for Peace Bernard Reich Since its independence...

... toward Ankara or Cairo? Israel’s New Geostrategic Debate Leon T. Hadar For several years, some Israeli and American officials and journalists have been celebrating the emergence of a “strategic alliance...

...Bernard Reich Robert O. Freedman, Editor: Israel's First Fifty Years . Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2000. 290 pages. ISBN 0-8130-1819-6. $29.95 (paper). Bernard Reich is professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University...

...Brent J. Talbot; Heidi Harriman Hezbollah has become a powerful yet destabilizing force in Lebanon, affecting internal stability, allowing Syria and Iran dangerous influence, delaying peace with Israel, and complicating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moreover, it forces the United States...

... highlighting the history of Israel’s defense strategy and reviewing the Arab Spring revolts, the authors find that the recent uprisings exacerbate several issues faced by Israel, including geopolitical relations with other countries in the region, energy issues, and growing threats presented by nonstate actors...

...Yitzhak Shichor Although studies on China’s Middle East policy frequently separate Israel from the rest of the region, Beijing has always been aware of regional contradictions and tried to navigate between the two sides it perceived as interconnected. China’s attempts to adopt a balanced...

... of instability, and that includes overcoming domestic opinion and lobbies that work against a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. The current demographic prospect is that Israel will lose its Zionist hopes by the forced integration of Palestinians who have lost their own hope of a viable and independent...

...Peter E. Paraschos With Israel and Cyprus recently confirming massive offshore gas reserves in the Levant Basin, the eastern Mediterranean Sea region is emerging as a significant new source of natural gas. The major economic and geopolitical implications explored in this essay include...

...James Rodgers Drawing on the author's time as the BBC's correspondent in Gaza from 2002 to 2004, this essay offers a way of understanding more fully the situation in Gaza in 2013, after the recent elections in the United States and Israel and following the Arab uprisings. The core argument...

..., and cultural ties, especially with Turkey, Israel, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf region. Through its modern history, Albania has been a good example of a politically and economically weak state exercising a fairly consistent asymmetric foreign policy based on the support of great powers...

... in the middle, each side, but particularly Israel, must desist from maintaining its extreme positions. Scott Woodward is an international police advisor and former contractor with the US Department of State and the United Nations, working previously in the Middle East and Africa. He holds a master’s...

... established regimes the space they need to sort out their futures. Meanwhile, Washington should further strengthen relations with the non-Arab Middle Eastern “peripheries,” specifically, Israel and Turkey. Also, the nuclear deal signed between Iran and major global powers in November 2013 provides...

... has characterized the intractability of the conflict in the past, including the future of Jerusalem, the Palestinian refugees, Israel’s national security concerns, and, in particular, the psychological dimension behind these conflicting issues, still remain in play. That intractability has been...