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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457030103321

Titolo

Militarism and Israeli society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

9786612555152

0-253-00420-9

1-282-55515-4

Descrizione fisica

vii, 386 p. : ill

Collana

Israel studies book

Altri autori (Persone)

ShefferGabriel

BarakOren

Disciplina

355/.03305694

Soggetti

Civil-military relations - Israel

Militarism - Israel

Electronic books.

Israel Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak -- The study of civil-military relations in Israel: a new perspective / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer -- Military knowledge and weak civilian control in the reality of low intensity conflict : the Israeli case / Kobi Michael -- Civil society, the military, and national security: the case of Israel's security zone in South Lebanon / Avraham Sela -- Intractable conflict and the media / Yoram Peri -- Tensions between military service and Jewish orthodoxy in Israel: implications imagined and real / Stuart A. Cohen -- From "obligatory militarism" to "contractual militarism" : competing models of citizenship / Yagil Levy, Edna Lomsky-Feder, and Noa Harel -- Shadow lands: the use of land resources for security needs in Israel / Amiram Oren -- "The battle over our homes": reconstructing/decontructing sovereign practices around Israel's separation barrier on the West Bank / Yuval Feinstein and Uri Ben-Eliezer -- The debate over the defense budget in Israel / Zalam F. Shiffer -- Civilian control over the army in Israel and France / Samy Cohen -- The making of Israel's political-security culture / Amir Bar-Or



-- The discourses of "psychology" and the "normalization" of war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Visual representations of IDF women soldiers and "civil-militarism" in Israel / Chava Brownfield-Stein -- Contradictory representation of the IDF in cultural texts of the 1980's / Yuval Benziman -- Military and society since 9/11: retrospect and prospect / Christopher Dandeker.