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2. Turkey Israel deal: A key to long term reconciliation ?
- Author:
- Selin Nasi
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Global Political Trends Center (GPoT)
- Abstract:
- Turkey Israel deal: A key to long term reconciliation ?
- Topic:
- International Security and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Turkey and Israel
3. Medium-Intensity Threats: The Case for Beefed-Up IDF Ground Forces
- Author:
- Eado Hecht and Eitan Shamir
- Publication Date:
- 10-2016
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
- Abstract:
- Some pundits contend that in the absence of a direct threat from state armies, and in a situation where terror, guerrilla and rocket threats predominate, Israel no longer needs heavy maneuvering formations. This 50-page study by Dr. Eado Hecht and Dr. Eitan Shamir of the BESA Center argues the contrary. The rise in capabilities of non-state actors represents a new intermediate-level threat to Israel; creating several plausible threat scenarios that require large, highly-capable ground formations. The IDF’s recent force-buildup plan, which gives priority to the air force and to precision-fire assets over ground units, is mistaken.
- Topic:
- International Security and Non State Actors
- Political Geography:
- Israel
4. The Importance of Being Ernst: Ernst David Bergmann and Israel’s Role in Taiwan’s Defense
- Author:
- Yitzhak Shichor
- Publication Date:
- 09-2016
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar
- Abstract:
- Since the early 1960s when Taiwanese officials met Professor Ernst David Bergmann, the first chairman of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, he played a significant role in Taiwan’s nuclear (and missile) programs. In Taiwan, which he visited occasionally and maintained close relations with President Chiang Kai-shek and its military-technological-scientific complex, Bergmann also facilitated some of Israel’s conventional military transfers to Taiwan. While some of his activities in Taiwan may have been approved by the Israeli Ministry of Defense (which followed its own foreign policy), the Foreign Ministry took exception, well before Jerusalem’s rapprochement with Beijing. Israel’s military relations with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) had been aborted by the mid-1990s, even though attempts have been made to resume defense links. Since his death in 1975—one day after Chiang Kai-shek’s—and definitely before, Ernst Bergmann has been considered, implicitly but lately explicitly, a prominent player in Taiwan’s defense modernization and one of the forefathers of its nuclear program.
- Topic:
- International Security, Military Affairs, Nuclear Power, and Geopolitics
- Political Geography:
- Israel and Taiwan
5. Israel vs. al-Qaeda: Emerging Challenges on Two Fronts
- Author:
- Ehud Yaari and Michael Morell
- Publication Date:
- 05-2014
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Abstract:
- A CIA veteran and an Israeli security expert discuss the growing presence of al-Qaeda affiliates in Sinai and Syria.
- Topic:
- Terrorism, International Security, and Armed Struggle
- Political Geography:
- Middle East and Israel