Israel Facing a New Middle East - Brun, Itai

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Résumé :
Reviews the evolution of Israeli policies through almost seven decades of war and conflict, showing the absence of a full-fledged grand strategy, the structural weakness of national security policy formulation by successive governments at the cabinet level, and the dominant role of the IDF. This state of affairs helps explain why and how Israel has responded to recent turmoil in a piecemeal fashion.

Biographie:
Brigadier General (Res.) Itai Brun, an Israeli senior intelligence officer, served as the head of Israel Defense Intelligence (IDI) Analysis Division from 2011 to 2015. Itamar Rabinovich is president of the Israel Institute. He served as Israel's ambassador to Washington and chief negotiator with Syria and was president of Tel Aviv University. He is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University, distinguished global professor at New York University, and a distinguished senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution.