Gabriel Ben-Dor

University of Haifa | haifa · School of Political Sciences

—————This article examined whether Israel’s Druze society has fundamentally changed, as the literature on intergenerational conflicts suggests. Specifically, it explored the association between people’s attitudes towards the principle of ‘preservation of the brethren’ (Hifz al-Ikhwan) and (1) intergenerational groups and (2) community characteristi...

This study examines conditions of peace and war to find whether the “rally `round the flag” effect is indeed attributed to rising levels of social collectivism. Reserve service motivation in peacetime and wartime was compared among 1,004 Israeli reservists. Levels of motivation and the factors that affect them were examined during the optimism of t...

Islamic fundamentalist terrorism has become the single most influential phenomenon of the first years of the new millennium. The occurrences of this phenomenon over the last two decades are described, and its theological roots are examined. The uniqueness of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism derives from the activist makeup and totalistic character...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the cultural basis of the Israeli use of force against its own citizens, as demonstrated in the violent clashes between Arab protesters and police during the events of October 2000. In contrast to other approaches attempting to explain this phenomenon, in this analysis, we assume a socio-cultural rather than inst...

Israel's national security doctrine necessitates a citizen's army ("nation-in-arms") based on universal conscription, requiring citizens to serve in the military reserves for many years. This reserve army is the mainstay of Israel's military. The willingness of citizens to serve in the army is analyzed here, using four approaches: the individual le...

This article explores the notion of fundamentalism, and anchors it in the concepts of extremism, radicalism and scripturalism. It argues that it is possible to study the phenomenon of fundamentalism within the paradigms of rationalism that prevail in modern social science. Furthermore, while all fundamentalist movements share certain characteristic...

Ten years ago dissatisfaction with the state of studying Middle East politics may well have led one to believe that to a very large extent, the shortage of scholars qualified in the esoteric languages, elaborate traditions, and long history of the area was to blame. In fact, at the time there was a good deal of justification to speak of an expected...

In recent years, institutionalization has become one of the key concepts in comparative politics in general, and in the study of political development in particular. This elegant and almost geometrically tidy theory of political order best articulated by Huntington has been acclaimed as a major new school, one that will be able perhaps to narrow wh...

Between 1939 and 1969, 41 coups were attempted by militaries in Arab states, 23 of which were successful, leading to military regimes and or regimes backed strongly by the military. As a result, the most important factor in Arab politics is the military. Significant literature exists concerning the onset of military intervention and duration of suc...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1972.