Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-9416-4 • Hardback • August 2014 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
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Elisheva Rosman-Stollman is assistant professor at the Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University.
Aharon Kampinsky is head of the Department of Citizenship Studies at the Efrata Academic College and teaches at Ashkelon Academic College and Bar Ilan University.
Introduction
Elisheva Rosman and Roni (Aharon) Kampinsky
Chapter 1: Armed Forces and the Polity through the Prism of Power
Ronald Krebs
Chapter 2: Civil-Security Relations in Israel: Looking Through the Mirror
Oren Barak
Chapter 3: Who Controls the IDF? Between an “Over-Subordinate Army” and “a Military that has a State”
Yagil Levy
Chapter 4: The IDF Moving Towards a Professional Force: Hybrid Wars, Logics-of-Action, and an Incremental Military
Eyal Ben-Ari, Yehudit Sher, and Arial Vainer
Chapter 5: Constructing the Ideal Officer: Israeli Society and the IDF Officer School
Tamir Libel
Chapter 6: The Nature and Course of the Dialogue between the Civilian Sector and the Defense Establishment in Israel Regarding the Planning and Building of Military Installations and Bases
Eliav Taub and Amiram Oren
Chapter 7: Women Singing, Cadets Leaving: The Extreme Case Syndrome in Religion-Army Relationships
Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser
Chapter 8: Gender separation or Women’s exclusion: The Military as a Case Study
Orna Sasson-Levy
Chapter 9: Guardians and Guards: The Israeli Supreme Court’s Political Role in Matters of National Security
Amichai Cohen
Chapter 10: Intentional Ambiguity: Why Do Crises in Relationships between the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff Reoccur Repeatedly?
Yoram Peri
Chapter 11: Swords, Scrolls, and Civilization of the Military: Stuart Cohen and His Work in Context
Roni (Aharon) Kampinsky and Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
Conclusion: Civil-Military Relations in Israel: Who Influences Whom?
Reuven Gal
This edited volume on significant security issues is in honor of the well-known and honored scholar Stuart Cohen, who has retired from Bar-Ilan University. This is a valuable and interesting volume. Talented and knowledgeable Israeli and foreign academics have contributed to this volume essays dealing with relevant issues in this field. The volume will be of real interest to politicians, security officials, and military persons, as well as to academic scholars and students. It is highly recommended.
— Gabriel Sheffer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In this excellent Festschrift in honor of Stuart A. Cohen, leading scholars of civil–military relations in Israel explore central problems in the political and social relations between the armed forces and society, especially the question of militarism—the extent to which Israel can be understood as an ‘army that has a state’ or whether civilian authority is in robust good health. The book shows that Israel can and should be located in a comparative framework from which those interested in cases other than Israel can benefit. More importantly, it shows that, in the political and sociological study of civil–military relations generally, Israeli scholars continue to contribute in a seminal fashion to the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical concerns of this field. Thus, Stuart Cohen’s influential work continues through the studies of a new generation of scholars.
— Christopher Dandeker, King's College London