An analysis of Israel's geopolitical positions in the territory of West Asia

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Doctor of political science, visiting professor of Islamic Azad University, Qeshm Branch, Iran.

10.22126/mps.2024.10568.1039

Abstract

Geopolitical code is a useful concept for taking into account geopolitical actions in that it is an operational code consisting of a set of political geography assumptions that underlie a state’s foreign policy. The measurement and monitoring of places outside the territorial territory of the country is based on the priorities, operational preference and objectified national interests of the countries, which is called the geopolitical code. In this regard, each country, influenced by strategic assumptions, forms its national security, which is The security view is in complete connection with a set of cultural, national, territorial factors and affected by scales and identity and geographic branding.Following the Al-Aqsa storm operation by the Palestinian militants, the Israeli regime's response to this action and the IRIR drone attacks against this regime and the threat to the territorial existence of this regime in the last half century, a geographical crisis has befallen this regime, which has forced Israel in ways The new geographical policy has forced. It can be said that Israel's peripheral strategy has shaped Israel's main geopolitical discourse in recent decades, but with the Iraq-Syria crisis and the rise of radical Salafi fundamentalism, Israel has defined a new new geopolitical code / vision.

Geopolitical code is a useful concept for taking into account geopolitical actions in that it is an operational code consisting of a set of political geography assumptions that underlie a state’s foreign policy. This research is descriptive-analytical in order to investigate, why and how the emergence of Israeli geopolitical codes in the Middle East with regard to the activity of new geopolitical structures and agents.

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Mesopotamian Political Studies
Volume 3, Issue 1
February 2025

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  • Receive Date: 13 May 2024
  • Revise Date: 04 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 13 December 2024

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