Regional Studies: American Studies - Israel Studies

Regional Studies: American Studies - Israel Studies

The impact of economic adjustment policies on the foreign policy of the Zionist regime (1970-1990)

Document Type : Original Article

Author
P.h.d candidate of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Since its formation, the Zionist regime has faced numerous economic crises in addition to widespread political crises. Under the influence of such conditions, the Likud Party was able to defeat the Labor Party for the first time in the 1970s with the slogan of structural adjustment and economic liberalization. Under the influence of the actions of the Likud party, the economy of the Zionist regime underwent a series of fundamental changes at the end of the 1970s and especially in the 1980s, which provided the tools for the significant economic growth of this regime. In this regard, what is interesting next to the economic growth of the Zionist regime is its coincidence with the evolution of the foreign policy of this regime.The purpose of this research, assuming the existence of a relationship between the two phenomena of economic development and the evolution of the foreign policy of the Zionist regime, is to find out what effect the reforms carried out in the framework of the economic adjustment program of the Zionist regime in the 1970s have had on the evolution of the foreign policy of this regime. The results of this research show that the Zionist regime's economic adjustment policies have prioritized economic goals and interests in the framework of developmentalist foreign policy, strengthening and developing relations with great powers, strengthening regionalism, reducing regional tensions, and developing multilateral economic diplomacy in its foreign policy
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