Israel and the Regional Shockwaves

In the coming years, when Israel confronts the need to make political and strategic decisions on central issues of national security, the situation will be immeasurably more complex than what Israel has been accustomed to in recent decades. This complexity is the result of the dramatic developments in the Middle East known as the Arab spring, which took place against the backdrop of two processes that have helped shape the past decade: the collapse of the Arab-Israeli political process and the weakening of the American superpower. The challenges that have resulted from these processes may augur a new crisis that will be difficult to solve, or at the very least, make it difficult to manage ongoing, familiar crises.