Between security and military identities: The case of Israeli security experts

Grassiani, Erella

doi:10.1177/0967010617747202

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“…I do not regard Colombia as an exceptional case, however, because the country shares many features with its Latin American neighbors and other countries that have experienced domestic armed conflict. What is unusual here is that even though Colombia is not an authoritarian state, in the streets, in the countryside, and even in people’s behavior there is a militaristic atmosphere that appears to be imperceptible to the majority of the population – one that has been wrapped up in the banner of security concerns – though there may be some parallels in the case of Israel (Grassiani, this issue).…”

Section: A Conceptual Toolbox For the Colombian Casementioning

confidence: 96%

Building civilian militarism: Colombia, internal war, and militarization in a mid-term perspective

Rodriguez

2018

Security Dialogue

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In late 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a peace agreement to bring an end to an internal war in Colombia that had lasted more than 50 years. During this process, pro-military attitudes within Colombian society that called for a hardline solution and rejected the peace agreement were highly visible, revealing the extent to which militarism had been embedded in Colombia over the years. This embedding of militarism had been enabled by the country’s many years of chaos and the use of counterinsurgency forms of warfare, which over the years had led civilian elites to adopt a militaristic approach to countering threats. In this article, I will examine key issues related to the central role of militarism and militarization in the scenario of violence and insecurity in Colombia, drawing on mid- and short-term historical perspectives, to highlight what I refer to as the country’s ‘civilian militarism’. First, I discuss how the main conceptual framing regarding militarism, militarization, and security applies to the Colombian case. Second, I describe and analyze the origin of civilian militarism in the context of the struggle between Colombia’s traditional political parties, and the militarization of the police and the intertwining of its role with that of the army as a legacy of that time. Third, I briefly examine how various presidential programs have embedded the concept of security in the 1990s and thereafter, though this is seen as a façade to enable the unfolding of a military approach to countering threats over the years, and how mandatory military service was used until recently as a tool to bolster support for militarism among everyday people.

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Section: A Conceptual Toolbox For the Colombian Casementioning

confidence: 96%

Building civilian militarism: Colombia, internal war, and militarization in a mid-term perspective

Rodriguez

2018

Security Dialogue

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“…Eventually, military and security officials have become the leading pressure group in national decision-making. Sheffer and Barak (2013) and Grassiani (2018) assert that Israel's highly influential security establishment had formed networks, consisting of former personnel from official security and intelligence organizations, holding senior positions in the state's civilian spheres. Members of these informal networks maintain security considerations as their most prominent concern, even in their non-security positions.…”

Section: Securitization and Io Undesired Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived to slack: secondary securitization and multilateral treaty ratification in Israel

Rubinson

Sadeh

2020

International Interactions

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This study emphasizes the place that cognitive processes rather than objective concerns have in ratification of multilateral treaties. We argue that secondary securitization by non-security experts hinders treaty ratification. When security is at stake, the potential costs of undesired action by the treaty's IO are deemed higher, risk-aversion increases, and asymmetry among the member states' policy perceptions is greater. Thus, our secondary securitization model improves over existing explanations of multilateral treaty ratification by assuming that national selfishness drives treaty (non)ratification, but not necessarily in a rational way. We support our argument with survival analysis regarding the ratification process in Israel of 243 treaties, based on documents retrieved from official archives, and controlling for a variety of competing explanations. We break securitization into objective and subjective components and correct for the possibility of undocumented acts of securitization. Our results are robust to all this. We follow with discourse and content analysis of official discussions of three human rights treaties (ICCPR, ICESCR, and CEDAW). We innovate theoretically by distinguishing secondary from primary securitization, and by combining Securitization and Principal-Agent theories. We believe our results travel well for other countries in which security concerns overshadow aspect of civilian life, and IOs are regarded with suspicion.

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“…35 Israel began developing spying and security inventions that began usage worldwide. 36 Israel was identified as the start up nation and the global security expert. 37 These technological advances were built on resourcefulness and human intelligence, but they were backed by the Israeli myths arising during initial statehood.…”

Section: Modern Warfarementioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives: University of Haifa Israel Studies

Mayer

2019

ASSRJ

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University of Haifa International School offers an MA in Israel Studies over an approximately one-year period. As a final exam exercise, the student is asked to write an essay describing his/her interaction with the Israel national narrative as taught in courses and experienced during field trips and personal interactions with the surrounding land and landscapes, museums, archeological sites and living "inside the Judaic calendar" for the whole year. In effect, the student's encounters may be summed up as an interface with memoryscape. The following is one student's interpretation of this assignment. The scope of this work is an exploration of the Israel narrative, as it was shaped from the early settlement years into the modern and complex State of Israel. My ambition is to trace the early settlement periods, let's say counting from the late 1880's, through the development of Eretz Israel into the Jewish homeland, a concept that seemed like the story of the "impossible dream." Over the course of my studies, we were presented with many "up close" views of the historical markers that are present in this narrative. No textbook reading alone can equal the experience a student has when history can be seen from a local, palpable and "up-front" viewpoint.

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Between security and military identities: The case of Israeli security experts

Cited by 21 publications

References 36 publications

Building civilian militarism: Colombia, internal war, and militarization in a mid-term perspective

Building civilian militarism: Colombia, internal war, and militarization in a mid-term perspective

Perceived to slack: secondary securitization and multilateral treaty ratification in Israel

Perspectives: University of Haifa Israel Studies

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