The impact of economic adjustment programs on the foreign policy of the Zionist regime (1970-2010)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ashkan Golafshan ¹

alireza koohkan ²

¹ Ph.D. candidate of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22067/irlip.2026.86963.1502

Abstract

Since its formation, the Zionist regime has faced numerous economic crises in addition to widespread political crises. Under the influence of such conditions, the Likud Party was able to defeat the Labor Party for the first time in the 1970s with the slogan of structural adjustment and economic liberalization. Under the influence of the actions of the Likud party, the economy of the Zionist regime underwent a series of fundamental changes at the end of the 1970s and especially in the 1980s, which provided the tools for the significant economic growth of this regime in the coming decades. In this regard, what is interesting next to the economic growth of the Zionist regime; It coincides with the change in the foreign policy of this regime. In this regard, this research with a qualitative method and an explanatory approach with the application of the theory of neoliberal institutionalism tries to address the basic question of what effect did the reforms made in the framework of the economic adjustment program in the 1970s and later have on the evolution of the foreign policy of the Zionist regime? In response to this question, this hypothesis is proposed that the adoption of economic adjustment policies leads to the priority of economic goals and interests in the framework of developmentalist foreign policy, strengthening and developing relations with great powers, strengthening regionalism, reducing regional tensions and developing multilateral economic diplomacy in foreign policy in Zionist regime.

Keywords

Zionist regime

Likud party

economic adjustment

foreign policy

economic development

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