This edited volume on significant security issues is in honor of the well-known and honored scholar Stuart Cohen, who has retired from Bar-Ilan University. This is a valuable and interesting volume. Talented and knowledgeable Israeli and foreign academics have contributed to this volume essays dealing with relevant issues in this field. The volume will be of real interest to politicians, security officials, and military persons, as well as to academic scholars and students. It is highly recommended.

Gabriel Sheffer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In this excellent Festschrift in honor of Stuart A. Cohen, leading scholars of civil–military relations in Israel explore central problems in the political and social relations between the armed forces and society, especially the question of militarism—the extent to which Israel can be understood as an ‘army that has a state’ or whether civilian authority is in robust good health. The book shows that Israel can and should be located in a comparative framework from which those interested in cases other than Israel can benefit. More importantly, it shows that, in the political and sociological study of civil–military relations generally, Israeli scholars continue to contribute in a seminal fashion to the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical concerns of this field. Thus, Stuart Cohen’s influential work continues through the studies of a new generation of scholars.

Christopher Dandeker, King's College London