ABSTRACT
Towards a Paradigm Shift in Israel's National Security Conception
Uri Bar-Joseph
This essay examines the shift in Israel's national security conception in the face of new internal and external factors. The author argues that various developments such as the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab-Israeli peace process and the new attitudes of Israelis to their society and state as they enter a 'post-Zionist' era are making the old preconceptions regarding national security obsolete.
