Publication

This commentary contends that Israel's national security concept must be adjusted to trends and processes marking Israel’s external and internal environments. The author explains that the new concept needs to take two basic assumptions into consideration: 1) the absence of an existential military threat to Israel, and 2) the instability sweeping the Middle East, marked primarily by the dramatic weakening of the existing nation state-based order, combined with the rise of “other actors” emerging out of religious, ethnic, and community struggles. He then discusses why Israel's new national security concept should include a multidisciplinary approach, aimed at enhancing Israel's security through effective planning, coordination, and synchronization of all efforts to enhance Israel’s influence in the Middle East.