Michael Eisenstadt David Pollock How the United States Benefits ...

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those of the United States. The end of the Cold
War, the decline of al-Qaeda, and the uprisings
of the Arab Spring have not changed this fact,
and may have even reinforced this coincidence
of interests.
Moreover, the decline of al-Qaeda and the
unprecedented developments brought on by the
Arab uprisings, mean that the war on violent
extremism is no longer the overarching consideration
shaping the relationship between the United
States and Arab and predominantly Muslim states.
And while U.S.-Israel cooperation to address traditional
hard security concerns (terrorism, conventional/hybrid
military threats, and missile/WMD
proliferation) remains the foundation of the two
countries’ security relationship, these concerns have
been joined by the need for cooperation on a variety
of new soft security challenges that will increasingly
influence how the United States thinks about
its relationship with Israel.
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