There have been many books on the place of war, security, or
military service in Israeli society. The Military, State, and
Society in Israel makes contributions to the debate-theoretical,
empirical, and polemical-that are related to the Israeli case and
to wider debates about the place of war and the military in
contemporary industrialized societies. The Israeli case is
important in the development of more macro approaches to the study
of "things military" as war has played a central role in Israel's
history and continues to do so. The book encapsulates in a very
explicit manner tensions in the relationships between the military,
state, and society and stands at the core of contemporary debates
between two fundamental approaches to the study of the relations
between the military society and the state: the "armed forces and
society" school and the "state-making and war" perspective.
Contemporary Israel is the site of debates about many of the
fundamental assumptions that have undergirded the Jewish
nation-state: the ethnic character of nationhood and statehood; the
role of the Jewish diaspora vis-o-vis Israel; the legitimacy of
Jewish "ethnic pluralism"; the meaning of the Holocaust;
privatization of social life and the spread of consumerism; and
weakening of the centralized state as the agent of social
transformation affecting housing, language, health, technology,
production, dress, and child-rearing. One important consequence of
these internal conflicts and struggles has been a significant
erosion in the almost sacred status once enjoyed by state
institutions, and especially the military, among the majority of
Jewish population. "Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives,"
situates Israel in its wider theoretical and comparative context
and shows how the study of Israel contributes to the theoretical
understanding of contemporary changes in civil-military relations.
"The Politics of Civil-Military Relations," concentrates on current
changes in Israeli politics, the character of the conflict with the
Palestinians, and the place of military in society. "The State and
War-Making-Creating Citizens, Soldiers, and Men and Women,"
indicates how war and the military are not only instruments for
state-making, but are also important factors in the formation of
individual identities. "The Notion of 'National
Security'-Institutions and Concepts," raises the basic question of
whether the institutional mechanisms and the strategic conceptions
crystallized during the first 50 years of Israel's existence are
still relevant in a changing post-cold war world. "The Armed Forces
as Organization, Continuity and Change," focuses on the lines of
continuity and trends of change in several aspects of the Israeli
Defense Forces' internal organizational structure. Studies based on
Israeli cases, data, and scholarship have been central to the
development of expertise in such fields as applied psychology and
psychotherapy. This volume contributes to these areas of study, and
will be of central importance to professionals interested in
civil-military.
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