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Security concerns : insights from the Israeli experience / edited by Daniel Bar-Tal, Dan Jacobson, and Aharon Klieman.
Van Pelt Library UA853.I8 S419 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary studies in sociology ; v. 17.
- Contemporary studies in sociology ; v. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--Israel.
- National security.
- Israel.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Civil-military relations.
- Israel--Military policy.
- Military policy.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 472 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, [1998]
- Contents:
- Part I. The Dilemmas of Security
- The Elusive Concept, and Pursuit, of Security / Daniel Bar-Tal, Dan Jacobson 15
- Outside History? Israel's Security Dilemma in a Comparative Perspective / Gil Merom 37
- Part II. Shaping Factors
- Through the Jewish Historical Prism: Overcoming a Tradition of Insecurity / Ehud Luz 55
- The Geographical and Territorial Imprint on the Security Discourse / David Newman 73
- The Zionist Security Conception / Yigal Elam 95
- Responding to the Threat
- the Dynamics of the Arab-Israel Conflict / Gabriel Ben-Dor 113
- Ben-Gurion's Enduring Legacy / Reuven Pedatzur 139
- Part III. Socializing Agents
- The Israel Defense Forces as a Socializing Agent / Micha Popper 167
- Israel's Security Intellectuals / Michael Keren 181
- The Security Narrative in Israeli Literature and Cinema / Nurith Gertz 193
- The Changed Security Discourse in the Israeli Media / Yoram Peri 215
- Part IV. Israeli Society as the Product of Insecurity
- The Argument of "National Security" in Politics and Jurisprudence / Gad Barzilai 243
- Public Opinion: Long-Term Patterns / Asher Arian 267
- Security-Related Stress and the Quality of Life / Simha F. Landau 289
- Security and the National Economy / Yaacov Lifshitz 311
- Women's Status in the Shadow of Security / Hanna Herzog 329
- Security and Israel's Arab Minority / Sarah Ozacky-Lazar 347
- Between the Transcendental and the Temporal: Security and the Religious Jewish Community / Stuart A. Cohen 371
- Part V. Security Futures
- Political Subcultures and Civilian Militarism in a Settler-Immigrant Society / Baruch Kimmerling 395
- A Militaristic Society or a Democracy in Uniform / Moshe Lissak 417
- Israel's Quest for Ultimate Security: Strategies and Prescriptions / Yehezkel Dror 433
- Epilogue: Learning from the Israeli Experience / Aharon Klieman 447.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0762304685
- OCLC:
- 40589249
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