Israel's National Security Predicament: Guarding the Third Temple

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Israeli national security experience, exploring key events and challenges, and how the country's security doctrine has evolved to address them. It is written in accessible language for general readers and specialists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book offers a groundbreaking assessment of Israel's national security experience, spanning from its establishment to the present day. Seventy-five years after its founding, Israel continues to grapple with a severe national security predicament due to the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, which remains unresolved. This monograph presents a novel framework for analyzing this complex experience, delving into the critical events that have shaped it, including interstate wars, asymmetrical conflicts, low-intensity conflicts, and advancements in weapons of mass destruction.

The book then explores how Israel's evolving national security doctrine has addressed these diverse challenges over the years, highlighting the roles of deterrence, warning, decision-making, strategic depth, defensible borders, military capabilities, intelligence, self-reliance, foreign policy, and the influence of ethnic demography, societal resilience, economic prosperity, and water security. Written in accessible and non-technical language, this book appeals to a broad audience, including general readers interested in gaining an introduction to Israeli security, as well as specialists and researchers in fields such as Israeli history, Middle Eastern politics, and security studies.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032525723