The Zionist Regime Strategy of Alliance of Periphery and Theory ‎of Balance of Threat in International Relations

To tackle its dilemma of isolation and encounter the Arab states in its immediate neighborhood, the Zionist Regime has adopted different strategies since its inception in 1948. Some early developments in the region such as taking the power in Egypt by Nasser, the 1956 Suez war and Egypt-Syria unification, deteriorated the crisis between Arabs and the Zionist regime and diminished further its sense of security. In response to this predicament, David Ben-Gurion introduced a foreign policy strategy named ‘the alliance of periphery’ based on friendship with non-Arab Muslim countries including Iran, Turkey and Ethiopia. The present article aims to study the rationale behind adoption of this strategy by the Zionist regime based on Stephen Walt’s theory of ‘balance of threat’ in international relations.