Security concerns : insights from the Israeli experience

Abstract

Foreword (E.A. Cohen, P.H. Nitze). Preface (D. Bar-Tal et al.). Introduction (D. Jacobson, D. Bar-Tal). The Dilemmas of Security. The elusive concept, and pursuit, of (D. Bar-Tal, D. Jacobson). Outside history? Israel's dilemmna in a comparative perspective (G. Merom). Shaping Factors. Through the Jewish historical prism: overcoming a tradition of insecurity (E. Luz). The geographical and territorial imprint on the discourse (D. Newman). The Zionist concept (Y. Elam). Responding to threat--the dynamics of the Arab-Israel conflict (G. Ben-Dor). Ben-Gurion's enduring legacy (R. Pedatzur). Socializing Agents. The Israel defense forces as a specializing agent (M. Popper). Israel's intellectuals (M. Keren). The narrative in Israeli literature and cinema (N. Gertz). The changed discourse in the Israeli media (Y. Peri). Israeli Society as the Product of Insecurity. The argument of security in politics and jurisprudence (G. Barzilai). Public opinion: long-term patterns (A. Arian). Security-related stress and the quality of life (S.F. Landau). Security and the national economy (Y. Lifshitz). Women's status in the shadow of (H. Herzog). Security and Israel's Arab minority (S. Ozacky-Lazar). Between the transcendental and the temporal: and the religious Jewish community (S.A. Cohen). Security Futures. Political subcultures and civilian militarism in a settler-immigrant society (B. Kimmerling). A militaristic society or a democracy in uniform (M. Lissak). Israel's quest for ultimate security: strategies and prescriptions (Y. Dror). Epilogue: learning from the Israeli experience (A. Klieman). Index.