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Yagil Levy, PhD, is External Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.Yagil Levy astutely brings together previously unconnected ideas about citizenship and rewards to military service. He thus produces a novel, persuasive account of how and why Israeli popular support for military actions against neighbors changes from one military engagement to the next.
- Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University,
In this valuable book, Yagil Levy probes how the Israeli state has historically been constituted by military service and its concomitant social and material rewards, how the citizenship equation has been transformed over the decades, how the military's social base has changed as a result, and how these various trajectories have come together to shape the contemporary Israeli polity, its democracy, and especially its foreign policy and military strategy. The "material militarist" theoretical framework that Levy employs for organizing and understanding these developments is sure to provoke much debate, as will his particular interpretations of Israeli politics. Students of Israel in particular and of civil-military relations in general will find much rewarding in this rich study.
- Ronald R. Krebs, McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota,
Israel's Materialist Militarism examines the decade of fluctuations in Israel's military policies, from the peace period of the Oslo Accords to the al-Aqsa Intifada, when the military's use of excessive force led to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, and on to the Second Lebanon War of 2006, which reversed the moderating tendencies of the withdrawal from Gaza a year earlier.
These dynamics of escalation and deescalation are explained in terms of materialist militarism, the exchange between social groups' military sacrifice and their social rewards, which in turn increases or decreases the level of militarism in society. Levy thus lays down a theoretical framework vital to tracing the fluctuating levels of militarism in Israel and elsewhere. Israel's Materialist Militarism is recommended for those interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict and military-society relations in general.
Chapter 1: Theoretical Introduction - The Essence and Dynamics of Materialist Militarism
Chapter 2: The Republican Equation and Its Violation
Chapter 3: The Continuation of Oslo by the al-Aqsa Intifada
Chapter 4: The War of the Peripheries
Chapter 5: From "People's Army" to "Market Army"
Chapter 6: The "Embedded Military" and the Implementation of the Disengagement Plan
Chapter 7: The Second Lebanon War: The "Gap of Legitimacies" Syndrome
Chapter 8: Conclusions: Why Materialist Militarism Matters
This series provides a forum for the publication of original theoretical, empirical, and conceptual studies that seek to chart new frontiers in the field of international relations. The key emphasis is on innovation and change. Books in the series will offer insights on and approaches to a broad range of issues facing the modern world, in an effort to revolutionize how contemporary world politics are studies, taught, and practiced. Advisory Board: Mark Crescenzi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kelly Kadera, University of Iowa; Deborah Larson, UCLA; Brett Ashley Leeds, Rice University; Jack Levy, Rutgers University
Series Editor: Zeev Maoz, University of California, Davis