Moshe Lissak is now Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and was a research fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has written extensively on civil-military relations in developing societies and in Israel; and on politics and social problems in Israel.

• Chapter 1 Paradoxes of Israeli Civil–Military Relations: An Introduction, Moshe Lissak; Chapter 2 Making Conflict a Routine: Cumulative Effects of the Arab–Jewish Conflict Upon Israeli Society*, Baruch Kimmerling; Chapter 3 Party–Military Relations in a Pluralist System, Yoram Peri; Chapter 4 The Six-Day War, Israel 1967: Decisions, Coalitions, Consequences: A Sociological View, Haim Benjamini; Chapter 5 Israel’s War in Lebanon: New Patterns of Strategic Thinking and Civilian–Military Relations, Dan Horowitz; Chapter 6 The Military–Industrial Complex: The Israeli Case, Alex Mintz; Chapter 7 New Immigrants as a Special Group in the Israeli Armed Forces, Victor Azarya, Baruch Kimmerling;