ABSTRACT
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. These essays analyse and explain some of his thinking.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|20 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|19 pages
The Restless Mind in its Element
The Study of Civil-Military Relations and the Analysis of Politics in Israel
part 2|152 pages
Israeli Society and Politics
chapter 2|26 pages
Messianism, Utopia and Pessimism in the 1950s
A Study of the Critique of the ‘Ben-Gurion State'
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part 3|34 pages
The Middle East
part 4|52 pages
Civil-Military Relations
part 5|45 pages
Miscellaneous
