POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Likud, New Approach
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Lecture 8: statecraft: every decision, especially those related to security have significant domestic ramifications, israel"s security network" and its impact: an exploration of a new approach - Israel"s security system is made up of a series of networks of people who the liminal zone between civilian and military areas: securitized diplomacy: israel"s jewish identity and the israeli-palestinian peace. Process securitization, a process by which rhetoric is used to take an issue and raise it to the level of existential threat. Shaped by reality and what constructivists call a. Speech act, a rhetoric issue by leaders: the relationship between aggression and fear of annihilation in israel - the longstanding trauma current racing through israeli politics. In 1996, the election demonstrated the decline of both likud and labor: new trend- switching party, leaving parties after internal elections, and holding party leadership in multiple parties [decline in loyalty, emergence of self-interest]