Full Description
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.
Contents
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
