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Rethinking the Civil-Military Relations Paradigm

The Inverse Relation between Militarism and Praetorianism through the Example of Israel

Tel-Aviv University

Using Israel as a case study, this article endeavors to account for the intriguing sociopolitical phenomenon that military coups and military regimes are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war but because the society is militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, hypothesizing an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of Israel from its establishment until the present day, its depiction as a nation-in-arms, and its comparison with other nations-in-arms that have also experienced nonpraetorian militarism.

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, 356-374 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0010414097030003004


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