Israel's Foreign Policy Towards the PLO: The Impact of Globalization Amnon Aran This detailed examination of Israeli foreign policy towards the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) between the 1967 war and the 2009 conflict between Israel and Hamas, focuses on the impact and process of globalization on the Israeli state's politics, economy, society and culture. Employing globalization theory and foreign policy analysis (FPA), causal relationships underpinning Israeli foreign policy - involving government, the state, the economy, social stratification, and the media - are linked to globalization by specific example. To date there have been only partial historical accounts of Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO in the context of globalization. It is generally understood that foreign policy towards the PLO became entangled with globalization due to socio-economic and cultural globalization of Israel in the mid-1980s. However, this study shows that the impact of globalization on Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO has been shaped by four phases, each representing a different type and consequently producing a different outcome, of interrelationships between foreign policy and globalization. During the 1967-1973 period (the first phase), globalization and Israeli foreign policy were disconnected. Between 1973 and 1984 (the second phase) significant interrelationships developed between the political and military globalization of Israel and its foreign policy towards the PLO. During the 1985-1999 period (the third phase), the scope of these interrelationships expanded as Israeli foreign policy towards the PLO became interrelated with the economic, social and cultural aspects of globalization. The fourth phase, from 1999 to the present, can be termed a hybrid phase, during which political, military, economic, social, and cultural impacts of globalization, jointly impacted on Israel's foreign policy towards the PLO. Dr. Amnon Aran is a Lecturer at City University, London. His areas of expertise lie in the International Relations of the Middle East, with special reference to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Dr. Aran also taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Kings College, and SOAS, and was the CEO of an Israeli-Palestinian NGO, Mahapach-Taghir.