National Security and Democracy in IsraelAvner Yaniv The Arab-Israeli conflict in general and the Palestinian intifada in particular have given rise to a wave of critical reappraisals of the Israeli experience - reappraisals that increasingly have come from those who can be described as mainstream Israelis. Situated within this emerging tradition of scholarly criticism, this book addresses a variety of problems that arise from the fact that Israel has been, since its inception, a democracy under seige. |
Contents
The Israeli Concept of National Security | 11 |
1 | 27 |
The Press and National Security | 173 |
Nuclear Weapons Opacity and Israeli Democracy | 197 |
An Imperfect Democracy? | 227 |
About the Contributors | 245 |
About the Israel Democracy Institute | |
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