1st Edition

Israel's National Security Law Political Dynamics and Historical Development

By Amichai Cohen, Stuart A. Cohen Copyright 2012
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

Terror attacks on western civilian targets have stimulated interest in the dilemmas faced by liberal societies when combating threats to national security. Combining the perspectives of political science and law, this book addresses that discourse, asking how democracies seek to harmonize the protection of individual liberties with the defence of state interests. The book focuses on the... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Foundations  1. Frameworks of Analysis  2. Cultural Contexts  Part 2: Development  3. Centralisation, 1948-63  4. Diffusion, 1963-77  5. Realignment, 1977-95  6. Legislation, 1995-2008  Part 3: Perspectives and Prescriptions  7. Diagnosis: Israel’s Hybrid National Security Legal Framework  8. Prognosis: Modes of Reform

Biography

Amichai Cohen teaches International Law at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel, and is a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute. His research interests are International Humanitarian Law, and the interaction between International Law and Domestic Law.

Stuart A. Cohen teaches Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he is also senior research associate of the BESA (Begin-Sadat) Center for Strategic Studies. He is the author of Israel and its Army (Routledge 2008) and edited The New Citizen Armies: Israel’s armed forces in comparative perspective (Routledge 2010).