IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/crmide/v7y2020i2p125-142.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Military, Civilian, or Both: David Ben-Gurion’s Perception of National Security After the War of Independence

Author

Listed:
  • Yoram Fried

Abstract

Over the years, attempts to define the notion of national security in terms of what it means and what it represents have ranged from a classical, purely military definition, to a broader multidimensional concept encompassing a range of different features. Studies on Israel’s national security concept have tended to emphasize the formative role played by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister. These works have focused on the military aspects of the national security concept, based on arguments concerning the perceived threat of wartime engagements with Arab armies. This article argues that Ben-Gurion’s national security concept was essentially a civilian perspective with military features that responded to the four types of threats, local, regional, international, and Jewish, facing the State of Israel at the time, most of which were not military.

Suggested Citation

  • Yoram Fried, 2020. "Military, Civilian, or Both: David Ben-Gurion’s Perception of National Security After the War of Independence," Contemporary Review of the Middle East, , vol. 7(2), pages 125-142, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:crmide:v:7:y:2020:i:2:p:125-142
    DOI: 10.1177/2347798920901866
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2347798920901866
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/2347798920901866?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gross, Nachum T., 1990. "Israeli Economic Policies, 1948–1951: Problems of Evaluation," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 50(1), pages 67-83, March.
    2. Belle Gavriel-Fried & Mimi Ajzenstadt, 2013. "Securitization vs the yearning for peace in the Israeli casino discourse," International Gambling Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 65-80, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rayna M. Sansanwal & Jeffrey L. Derevensky & Belle Gavriel-Fried, 2016. "What mental health professionals in Israel know and think about adolescent problem gambling," International Gambling Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 67-84, April.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:crmide:v:7:y:2020:i:2:p:125-142. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.