Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered: Israel as an ‘Uncivil’ State

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I would like to thank the following people for their helpful comments: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, John J. Mearsheimer, Marvin Zonis, Moshe Lissak, Henk Goemans, Stephen P. Cohen, Alicia Levine, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Stacy Bergstrom, Bartholemew Sparrow, Stephen Walt, Andrew Wallace, Jill Swenson, Shai Feldman, Ra'anan Gabay, Reuven Gal, Jane Jaquette, Daniel Elazar, Alison Rose, Benjamin Schiff, Danny Leifer, Joseph Cropsey, and Benjamin Frankel. I am also grateful to the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Shaine Center for Social Science Research, the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, and the Interuniversity Fellowship for Jewish Studies for their generous support. The conclusions and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.