Israel Turns to the Sea

Abstract:Since the mid-1990s, both the Israeli state and Israeli society have been developing and implementing several separate new policies regarding the country’s seas. These include the extraction of offshore hydrocarbons; expansion of the navy; massive desalination projects; and several legislative, planning, and zoning initiatives. Put together, these changes amount to a “turn to the sea” that profoundly affects Israel’s economy, foreign policy, and military. This article compares this shift to historical precedents, offering Israel as a template for a new, cumulative model that does not conform to the existing narratives of how polities have turned to the maritime domain.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  The Middle East Journal

• Publication date

  2018-11-21

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Environmental Science, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3751/72.4.14
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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