Cultural Shift and Foreign Policy Change

Israel and the Making of the Oslo Accords

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8912404
AutoresJonathan Rynhold (0000-0002-6886-2446, Bar-Ilan University, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume42
Fascículo4
Páginas419-440
Data de publicação2007-11-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0010836707082649
OpenAlexW2104811573
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas38

This article analyses the role of cultural shift, as defined by Inglehart, in the major change in Israeli foreign policy embodied in the Oslo Accords. Aside from providing an empirical explanation, it also analyses the Oslo case from a general theoretical perspective concerning the relationship between cultural change and foreign policy change. It argues that a cultural shift towards Postmaterialism led to the rise of a new generation on the Israeli Left with a more Liberal outlook. It was this `Liberal Left' that was primarily responsible for conceiving, initiating and enacting the Oslo Accords. In broader terms, this study provides a new way of examining the relationship between cultural change and foreign policy change. As such, it provides a solid basis for the comparative analysis of the role of a substantive, worldwide cultural trend on foreign policy

Aside · Cultural policy · Development economics · Economics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Foreign policy · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts