A Restless Mind: Essays in Honor of Amos Perlmutter

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. 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 1 Israeli Society and Politics: Messianism, Utopia and Pessimism in the 1950s: A Study of the Critique of the 'Ben-Gurion State' Yaacov Shavit. Military-civilian Elite Networks in Israel: A Case Study in Boundary Structure Daniel Maman and 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 theKuwait 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 Rapoport. Spanish Praetorianism Revisited Stanley G Payne. Ideological and Military Factors in the Rise and Retreat of Totalitarianism Stanislav Andreski. Part 5 Miscellaneous: The Ukranian 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 its Predecessors Max Singer and Aaron Wildavsky.

Benjamin Frankel is editor of the journal Security Studies Stanislav Andreski is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Reading Gabriel Ben-Dor is a professor of political science at the University of Haifa. He is also the director of the graduate studies program at the IDF's National Defense College Michael Brecher is Angus Professor of Political Science at McGill University Jacob Goldberg was formerly a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Center. He is currently affiliated with the Middle East Research Institute (MERI), as well as the Dayan Center Efraim Inbar is associate professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University and Director of its BESA (Begin-Sadat) Center for Strategic Studies Moshe Lissak is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Daniel Maman is a post-doctoral researcher at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Stanley G. Payne is the Hilldale Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Daniel Pipes is editor of the Middle East Quarterly and a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Richard Pipes is the Baird Professor of History at Harvard University George Quester is professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland David Rapoport is professor of political theory at UCLA, as well as the editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence Yaacov Shavit is professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University Max Singer is the president of Potomac Organization Inc Aaron Wildavsky was the founder and the first dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California - Berkeley At the time of his death in September 1993 he was the Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. He was also a past chair of the political science department at Berkeley