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The New Citizen Armies

This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society.

Focusing primarily on deviations from the traditional norm of universal military service, the book compares the emergence of a new type of citizen army in Israel with the formats that have in recent decades become evident in other Western democracies. In addition, these essays correct the conventional tendency to concentrate almost exclusively on the influences stimulating military institutional change in the West, and thereby to overlook the equally important factors that retard its momentum. By contrast, this volume deliberately highlights the brakes as well as the accelerators in current processes, thereby presenting a far more faithful picture of their complexity.

This book will be of much interest to students of Israeli politics, military studies, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR in general.

Stuart A. Cohen is a senior research associate of the (BESA) Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and also teaches Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His most recent book is Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion (Routledge, 2008).

BESA studies in international security

Series Editor: Efraim Inbar

Middle Eastern Security

Prospects for an arms control regime

Edited by Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler

Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East

Edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Efraim Inbar

The National Security of Small States in a Changing World

Edited by Efraim Inbar and Gabriel Sheffer

Israeli Strategy after Desert Storm

Lessons of the Second Gulf War

Maj. Gen. (res.) Aharon Levran

The Politics and Economics of Defense Industries

Edited by Efraim Inbar and Benzion Zilberfarb

Democratic Societies and Their Armed Forces

Israel in comparative context

Edited by Stuart A. Cohen

US Allies in a Changing World

Edited by Barry Rubin and Thomas Keaney

Armed Forces in the Middle East

Politics and strategy

Edited by Barry Rubin and Thomas Keaney

The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered

Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich and Efraim Inbar

Democracies and Small Wars

Edited by Efraim Inbar

Religion in World Conflict

Edited by Jonathan Fox and Shmuel Sandler

Radical Islam and International Security

Challenges and responses

Edited by Hillel Frisch and Efraim Inbar

USIsraeli Relations in a New Era

Issues and challenges after 9/11

Edited by Eytan Gilboa and Efraim Inbar

The New Citizen Armies

Israels armed forces in comparative perspective

Edited by Stuart A. Cohen

First published 2010
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2010 Selection and editorial matter, Stuart A. Cohen; individual chapters, the contributors

Typeset in Times by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The new citizen armies: Israels armed forces in comparative perspective/
edited by Stuart A. Cohen.
p. cm.
Simultaneously published in the USA and CanadaT.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. IsraelArmed Forces. 2. Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yisrael. 3.
Civilmilitary relationsIsrael. 4. Military art and scienceCross-cultural
studies. I. Cohen, Stuart, A.
UA853.I8N49 2010
355.0095694dc22
2009031837

ISBN10: 0-415-56546-4 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-86171-X (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-56546-2 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-86171-4 (ebk)

In memory of Charles Moskos (19342008) who inspired us all with his scholarship and friendship

Contents

STUART A. COHEN

RONALD R. KREBS

CHRISTOPHER DANDEKER

JAN HOFFENAAR

STUART A. COHEN

AVI KOBER

GABRIEL SHEFFER AND OREN BARAK

MICHELLE SANDHOFF, MADY WECHSLER SEGAL AND DAVID R. SEGAL

YAACOV LIFSHITZ

LEONARD WONG

DAVID J. BERCUSON

ORNA SASSON-LEVY

YAGIL LEVY

TAMIR LIBEL

Oren Barak teaches in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society (2009). Together with Gabriel Sheffer, he is editor of Militarism and Israeli Society (2010) and Existential Threats and Civil-Security Relations (2009).

David J. Bercuson is a professor of History and director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He is also the director of Programs for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, based in Calgary. He has written, co-authored, or edited over 30 books. In August 2005 he was appointed to the Advisory Council on Canadian National Security.

Stuart A. Cohen is professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and senior research associate of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. His latest book is Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion (Routledge, 2008).

Christopher Dandeker is professor of Military Sociology in the Department of War Studies and head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at Kings College London. He is also co-director (with Professor Simon Wessely, of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London) of the Kings Centre for Military Health Research. His published work includes: The Structure of Social Theory (1984), Surveillance Power and Modernity (1990), and Nationalism and Violence (1997).

Jan Hoffenaar is head of the Research Division of the Netherlands Institute of Military History, professor in Military History, Department of History and Art History, University of Utrecht. He is president of the Netherlands Commission of Military History and president of the Editorial Board of Military History of the Netherlands, in Europe and Overseas (seven volumes).

Avi Kober teaches Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and is senior research associate at the BESA Center. His latest book is Israels Wars of Attrition (Routledge, 2009).

Ronald R. Krebs is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship (2006).

Yagil Levy is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. His recent books include Israels Materialist Militarism (2007) and Israel since 1980 (co-authored, 2008).

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