Security Concerns: Insights from the Israeli Experience

by Daniel Bar-Tal (Editor)

This work offers a holistic presentation of security, its broader sources and ramifications in Israel -- and by extension, any other country in the world. We extend the usual focus of analysis to include elements of societal life rather than the usual formats restricted to the military sphere or, alternatively, to a single sector of society. Working from a psychological/sociological/geopolitical approach, this work provides a truly multidisciplinary perspective. We assembled contributions from political scientists, sociologists, historians, psychologists, a geographer, a criminologist, and educator, a media expert, and an economist. These authors bring together an array of conceptual tools and methodologies, highlighting for readers, again the set of formative security variables, antecedent factors, and social mechanisms that are instrumental in shaping security concerns and responses, as well as insecurity-security's wider impact on any given society.

472 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999