Israeli Society and Its Defense Establishment
The Social and Political Impact of a Protracted Violent Conflict

First Published in 1984. In this volume, the reader will find seven papers which deal with a broad spectrum of issues not necessarily confined to civil-military relations in their more limited and narrow definition. One will also find reference to the broader issues of the social, economic and political impact of the protracted violent conflict on Israeli society. The volume focuses more on the consequence of the actual management of the war rather than on the decision-making process proper.

Chapter 1 Paradoxes of Israeli Civil–Military Relations: An Introduction, Moshe Lissak; Chapter 2 Making Conflict a Routine: Cumulative Effects of the Arab–Jewish Conflict Upon Israeli Society*, Baruch Kimmerling; Chapter 3 Party–Military Relations in a Pluralist System, Yoram Peri; Chapter 4 The Six-Day War, Israel 1967: Decisions, Coalitions, Consequences: A Sociological View, Haim Benjamini; Chapter 5 Israel’s War in Lebanon: New Patterns of Strategic Thinking and Civilian–Military Relations, Dan Horowitz; Chapter 6 The Military–Industrial Complex: The Israeli Case, Alex Mintz; Chapter 7 New Immigrants as a Special Group in the Israeli Armed Forces, Victor Azarya, Baruch Kimmerling;

Moshe Lissak is now Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and was a research fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has written extensively on civil-military relations in developing societies and in Israel; and on politics and social problems in Israel.