Routledge Handbook on Israel's Foreign Relations

This Handbook provides a comprehensive account of contemporary Israeli diplomacy and analyses the changing dynamics of Israel-s bilateral relations with other states and the international community over the past seventy-five years.

Research into Israeli foreign policy has been largely sidelined by debates over security, domestic politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This Handbook addresses the gap in the literature. Comprising 31 essays written by leading scholars of Israel, the Handbook explicates how domestic, societal and economic interests, together with changing Israeli narratives of identity and location, shape and impact Israeli foreign policy. It illustrates how those factors have influenced foreign policy choices and the instruments - economic cooperation, arms sales, military training, and intelligence sharing - that Israel has utilized in order to promote its interests and build relationships with countries and actors throughout t