Israeli Foreign Policy-making in a Long Lasting Process Towards Peace

Résumé du livre

By verifying a combination of leading theories on policy making, it has become clear that well organised minority groups within society have the ability to practice a larger amount of influence on the outcome of policy-making processes, supported by specific situations. This qualitative study is based on the single case of the Israeli foreign policy-making process in the wake of the Israeli Palestinian peace process between 1993 and 2000. The events leading to the initial success and eventual failure of the Oslo Accords are discussed to indicate the sources of ideological based power and the trigger events leading to the temporal decrease of the ideological gap between both nations. Next to some external events, the focus is on the domestic developments in both the political spere as well as in society. The centre of attention in this thesis is the minority group of settlers and religious groups within the Israeli society.