Autophobia? : Israel's geo-politics in the early 'Chinese century'

Recent popular unrest across the Arab world has sparked fresh debate over the scope of multinational intervention in 21st-century emergent humanitarian crises and the perimeters of promoting democratization in the developing world; it has also prompted reassessment of the United States' ability to maintain its system of longstanding regional alliances in the face of economic recession at home, and amid President Obama's apparent disowning of his predecessor's ebullient pre-emptive posture.