Gas and foreign policy: how Israel is leveraging energy to stabilise the region and advance geostrategic objectives
Ezra Friedman Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades (C) and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras (R), May 2018. Ezra Friedman writes that the discovery of gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean has given Israel, long perceived as sidelined on the international stage, new avenues to pursue foreign policy objectives: to create energy self-sufficiency, […]