A Restless Mind: Essays in Honor of Amos Perlmutter / Edition 1

by Benjamin Frankel

Overview

Amos Perlmutter has devoted his academic career to the study of comparative politics, international relations and modern authoritarianism. He has written 14 books and more than 70 articles in academic journals. He has also been a prolific contributor to newspapers in the United States and abroad and offered commentary on TV and radio shows. These essays analyse and explain some of his thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714646077
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Series:	Israeli History, Politics, and Society Series
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: the restless mind in its element - the study of civil-military relations and the analysis of politics in Israel, Gabriel Ben-Dor. Part 2 Israeli society and politics: Messianism, utopia and pessimism in the 1950s - a study of the critique of Ben-Gurion State, Yaacov Shavit; military-civilian elite networks in Israel - a case study in boundary structure, Daniel Maman, Moshe Lissak; Israel - the shift from self-reliance, Efraim Inbar; Eban and Israeli foreign policy - diplomacy, war and disengagement, Michael Brecher; the Hebron massacre and the problems of intelligence, Gabriel Ben-Dor. Part 3 The Middle East: heroes and knaves of the Kuwait crisis, Daniel Pipes; demography as a military constraint - the case of Saudi Arabia, Jacob Goldberg. Part 4 Civil-military relations: the role of external forces in supporting ethno-religious conflict, David C. Tapoport; Spanish praetorianism revisited, Stanley G. Payne; ideological and military factors in the rise and retreat of totalitarianism, Stanislav Andreski. Part 5 Miscellaneous: the Ukrainian pogroms during the Russian Civil War, Richard Pipes; the gains and costs of non-lethal warfare, George H. Quester; the qualitative revolution, or why the next world order will be better than predecessors, Max singer, Aaron Wildavsky.

Editorial Reviews

A collecting 13 essays addressing the work of Amos Perlmutter, scholar of comparative politics, international relations, civil-military relations, and modern authoritarianism. Contributions are divided into five sections: a general discussion of the study of civil-military relations and political analysis in Israel; Israeli society and politics; the Middle East; civil-military relations; and three unrelated contributions on the Ukrainian pogroms, non-lethal warfare, and the "new world order." Lacks an index. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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