Uri Ben-Eliezer
Biographic Data
| ID | 127857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uri Ben-Eliezer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uri |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Eliezer |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-ELIEZER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3477-324X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Reflexive postliberal peace: A cultural paradigm shift in Israel’s peacebuilding
To what extent does postliberal peace represent a substantive cultural paradigm shift relative to the liberal peace paradigm? We offer an empirical examination of the question through the Israeli case. An analysis of sixteen peace associations shows that peace activism has changed in the last twenty years in Israel in terms of organization, orientation, and action. Such change is clearly based on reflexivity, i.e. on the attempt by the activists …
Intergenerational dialogue and positioning change in dealing with racism: Ethiopian Jews in Israel, thirty years after the immigration
How do immigrant’s children cope with racist hegemonic discourse? To what extent, is their response effective? The article addresses this issue through an exploration of the identity and positioning strategies of children of 100,000 ‘Black Jews’ who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia at the end of the last century. Drawing on the sociology of generations, we show that members of the second generation of Ethiopian immigrants developed a different …
Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel: A spiral model
Illiberal democracies that include ultra-nationalist elements have become more common across the globe, and often go hand-in-hand with conflict and war. Most prior studies have proposed a single direction of causality such that insecurity and violence lead to the spread of illiberal political culture and the rise of illiberal political elements. In contrast, we propose a spiral process in which illiberal elements are not only the product of insec…
The Civil Society, the Uncivil Society, and the Difficulty Israel Has Making Peace with the Palestinians
The difficulty Israel has making peace with the Palestinians, which became evident with the failure of the 1993 Oslo Agreements, can be explained through the internal relationships and historical dynamics within the Israeli public sphere, and the relations between the public sphere and the state. Using the terms ‘civil society’ and ‘uncivil society’ as a theoretical framework, the article examines both the relations between these two binary repre…
Globalized Hopes and Disillusions: Israel's Institutional Transition from the Brink of Peace to New Wars
In contrast to the common tendency to see war as the result of leadership decisions based on risk assessments, and political and economic considerations about gains or losses, we use a constructivist and institutional perspective to historicize and politicize the way "nation-state interests" and "nation-state preferences" even in a decision to go to war are socially constructed and culturally embedded. We maintain that with the end of the Cold Wa…
Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion
The Politics of Borders and the Borders of Politics: Sovereignty and Autonomy Around Israel's Human Rights Abuses in the Separation Barrier Project
This article takes issue with the "weak state" and "hollowing out of the state" theses, which appear in recent literatures dealing with globalization. In order to analyze the nation state's contention with various actors concerning human rights and other issues, a conceptual distinction is suggested between state autonomy and capacity-defined as the state's ability to rationally posit objectives and to realize them-and state sovereignty, defined …
Multicultural society and everyday cultural racism: Second generation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel's ‘crisis of modernization
The core of this article sets out to examine the extent to which a multicultural society can prevent cultural racism, which, like multiculturalism, is by definition based on a culture of diversity and separation. The 'first modernity' was organized along national lines, with a centralist state that opted to create an essentialist and uncontested national identity. Immigrants, especially those who came from 'third world' countries, were expected t…
Transnational Social Movements, Civil Society, and a Secret State: The Idea of a Nuclear-free World through Israel's Vanunu Affair
Studies on transnational social movements in world risk society tend to emphasize their centrality and effectiveness as the result of two major transformations: the decline of the nation-state as a primary locus of power and sovereignty, and the rise of assertive civil societies' subpolitics. Drawing on the ‘Vanunu affair’ (the Israeli technician who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for making public Israel's nuclear secrets), and the re…
The Battle Over Our Homes: Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices Around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Yuval Feinstein, "The Battle over Our Homes": Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank, Israel Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, "An Army That Has a State?" (Spring, 2007), pp. 171-192
Post-Modern Armies and the Question of Peace and War: The Israeli Defense Forces in the “New Times”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Becoming a black Jew: Cultural racism and anti-racism in contemporary Israel
Many scholars consider 'identity' and 'identity politics' to be among the most important means for cultural minority groups to challenge a discriminatory reality. Others caution that these processes might result in the polarisation of differences, potentially fuelling hatred, harsh conflict, exclusion and even violence. The tension between these two views is presented in this article through an examination of the way young Ethiopian Jews whose pa…
The Making of Israeli Militarism
New Roles or "New Times"? Gender Inequality and Militarism in Israel's Nation-in-Arms
This article examines gender discourse in the Israeli military context from 1948 to the present, and links the gender inequality and cultural militarism of women's military service to Israel's constitution as a “nation-in-arms.” This statist institutional pattern blurred the distinction between society and the army, placed the army in the center of the collective conscience, and made war preparation the project of “all.” We show how this framewor…
Dramatizing sovereignty: The construction of territorial dispute in the Israeli-Egyptian border at Taba
The Making of Israeli Militarism
How militarism became a defining characteristic of Israeli society
State Versus Civil Society? A Non-Binary Model of Domination Through the Example of Israel
Through the Israeli case, the article questions the validity of the Western liberal model according to which (civil) "society" and "state" are two separate entities, the state ostensibly existing outside the society and imposing its will on it. Covering five distinct historical periods, from the beginning of the century until the present, and utilizing Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony, the article surveys one of Israel's core myths, if not t…
Is a military coup possible in Israel? Israel and French-Algeria in comparative historical-sociological perspective
Rethinking the Civil-Military Relations Paradigm: The Inverse Relation between Militarism and Praetorianism through the Example of Israel
Using Israel as a case study, this article endeavors to account for the intriguing sociopolitical phenomenon that military coups and military regimes are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war but because the society is militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, hypothesizing an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of Israel fr…
A Nation-in-Arms: State, Nation, and Militarism in Israel's First Years
Like many other states, Israel was forged through the struggle of a national liberation movement that likely drew inspiration from an ethnic past and that certainly worked to establish a political framework. Once the state existed, however, its leaders did not regard theethnieas an objective category that would in large measure determine whether a nation would emerge. Instead, they viewed the ethnie as a subject susceptible, in varying degrees, t…
The Meaning of Political Participation in a Nonliberal Democracy: The Israeli Experience
How do cultural rules shape the meaning of participation in politics ? Israel offers an example of the impact of a nonliberal, collective democracy on political participation. Political participation is examined during two different historical periods : the prestate era and the last 20 years. In both periods Israel's nonliberal democracy fostered the separation of political participation from political influence. Israeli democracy can be characte…
A comment on ?the emergence of militaristic nationalism in Israel
Becoming a black Jew: Cultural racism and anti-racism in contemporary Israel
Many scholars consider 'identity' and 'identity politics' to be among the most important means for cultural minority groups to challenge a discriminatory reality. Others caution that these processes might result in the polarisation of differences, potentially fuelling hatred, harsh conflict, exclusion and even violence. The tension between these two views is presented in this article through an examination of the way young Ethiopian Jews whose pa…
A Nation-in-Arms: State, Nation, and Militarism in Israel's First Years
Like many other states, Israel was forged through the struggle of a national liberation movement that likely drew inspiration from an ethnic past and that certainly worked to establish a political framework. Once the state existed, however, its leaders did not regard theethnieas an objective category that would in large measure determine whether a nation would emerge. Instead, they viewed the ethnie as a subject susceptible, in varying degrees, t…
Multicultural society and everyday cultural racism: Second generation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel's ‘crisis of modernization
The core of this article sets out to examine the extent to which a multicultural society can prevent cultural racism, which, like multiculturalism, is by definition based on a culture of diversity and separation. The 'first modernity' was organized along national lines, with a centralist state that opted to create an essentialist and uncontested national identity. Immigrants, especially those who came from 'third world' countries, were expected t…
The Meaning of Political Participation in a Nonliberal Democracy: The Israeli Experience
How do cultural rules shape the meaning of participation in politics ? Israel offers an example of the impact of a nonliberal, collective democracy on political participation. Political participation is examined during two different historical periods : the prestate era and the last 20 years. In both periods Israel's nonliberal democracy fostered the separation of political participation from political influence. Israeli democracy can be characte…
New Roles or "New Times"? Gender Inequality and Militarism in Israel's Nation-in-Arms
This article examines gender discourse in the Israeli military context from 1948 to the present, and links the gender inequality and cultural militarism of women's military service to Israel's constitution as a “nation-in-arms.” This statist institutional pattern blurred the distinction between society and the army, placed the army in the center of the collective conscience, and made war preparation the project of “all.” We show how this framewor…
Post-Modern Armies and the Question of Peace and War: The Israeli Defense Forces in the “New Times”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rethinking the Civil-Military Relations Paradigm: The Inverse Relation between Militarism and Praetorianism through the Example of Israel
Using Israel as a case study, this article endeavors to account for the intriguing sociopolitical phenomenon that military coups and military regimes are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war but because the society is militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, hypothesizing an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of Israel fr…
Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel: A spiral model
Illiberal democracies that include ultra-nationalist elements have become more common across the globe, and often go hand-in-hand with conflict and war. Most prior studies have proposed a single direction of causality such that insecurity and violence lead to the spread of illiberal political culture and the rise of illiberal political elements. In contrast, we propose a spiral process in which illiberal elements are not only the product of insec…
State Versus Civil Society? A Non-Binary Model of Domination Through the Example of Israel
Through the Israeli case, the article questions the validity of the Western liberal model according to which (civil) "society" and "state" are two separate entities, the state ostensibly existing outside the society and imposing its will on it. Covering five distinct historical periods, from the beginning of the century until the present, and utilizing Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony, the article surveys one of Israel's core myths, if not t…
Dramatizing sovereignty: The construction of territorial dispute in the Israeli-Egyptian border at Taba
The Civil Society, the Uncivil Society, and the Difficulty Israel Has Making Peace with the Palestinians
The difficulty Israel has making peace with the Palestinians, which became evident with the failure of the 1993 Oslo Agreements, can be explained through the internal relationships and historical dynamics within the Israeli public sphere, and the relations between the public sphere and the state. Using the terms ‘civil society’ and ‘uncivil society’ as a theoretical framework, the article examines both the relations between these two binary repre…
The Politics of Borders and the Borders of Politics: Sovereignty and Autonomy Around Israel's Human Rights Abuses in the Separation Barrier Project
This article takes issue with the "weak state" and "hollowing out of the state" theses, which appear in recent literatures dealing with globalization. In order to analyze the nation state's contention with various actors concerning human rights and other issues, a conceptual distinction is suggested between state autonomy and capacity-defined as the state's ability to rationally posit objectives and to realize them-and state sovereignty, defined …
The Battle Over Our Homes: Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices Around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Yuval Feinstein, "The Battle over Our Homes": Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank, Israel Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, "An Army That Has a State?" (Spring, 2007), pp. 171-192
Is a military coup possible in Israel? Israel and French-Algeria in comparative historical-sociological perspective
Globalized Hopes and Disillusions: Israel's Institutional Transition from the Brink of Peace to New Wars
In contrast to the common tendency to see war as the result of leadership decisions based on risk assessments, and political and economic considerations about gains or losses, we use a constructivist and institutional perspective to historicize and politicize the way "nation-state interests" and "nation-state preferences" even in a decision to go to war are socially constructed and culturally embedded. We maintain that with the end of the Cold Wa…
Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion
A comment on ?the emergence of militaristic nationalism in Israel
A comment on ?the emergence of militaristic nationalism in Israel
The Meaning of Political Participation in a Nonliberal Democracy: The Israeli Experience
How do cultural rules shape the meaning of participation in politics ? Israel offers an example of the impact of a nonliberal, collective democracy on political participation. Political participation is examined during two different historical periods : the prestate era and the last 20 years. In both periods Israel's nonliberal democracy fostered the separation of political participation from political influence. Israeli democracy can be characte…
A Nation-in-Arms: State, Nation, and Militarism in Israel's First Years
Like many other states, Israel was forged through the struggle of a national liberation movement that likely drew inspiration from an ethnic past and that certainly worked to establish a political framework. Once the state existed, however, its leaders did not regard theethnieas an objective category that would in large measure determine whether a nation would emerge. Instead, they viewed the ethnie as a subject susceptible, in varying degrees, t…
Rethinking the Civil-Military Relations Paradigm: The Inverse Relation between Militarism and Praetorianism through the Example of Israel
Using Israel as a case study, this article endeavors to account for the intriguing sociopolitical phenomenon that military coups and military regimes are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war but because the society is militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, hypothesizing an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of Israel fr…
The Making of Israeli Militarism
How militarism became a defining characteristic of Israeli society
State Versus Civil Society? A Non-Binary Model of Domination Through the Example of Israel
Through the Israeli case, the article questions the validity of the Western liberal model according to which (civil) "society" and "state" are two separate entities, the state ostensibly existing outside the society and imposing its will on it. Covering five distinct historical periods, from the beginning of the century until the present, and utilizing Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony, the article surveys one of Israel's core myths, if not t…
Is a military coup possible in Israel? Israel and French-Algeria in comparative historical-sociological perspective
New Roles or "New Times"? Gender Inequality and Militarism in Israel's Nation-in-Arms
This article examines gender discourse in the Israeli military context from 1948 to the present, and links the gender inequality and cultural militarism of women's military service to Israel's constitution as a “nation-in-arms.” This statist institutional pattern blurred the distinction between society and the army, placed the army in the center of the collective conscience, and made war preparation the project of “all.” We show how this framewor…
Dramatizing sovereignty: The construction of territorial dispute in the Israeli-Egyptian border at Taba
The Making of Israeli Militarism
Post-Modern Armies and the Question of Peace and War: The Israeli Defense Forces in the “New Times”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Becoming a black Jew: Cultural racism and anti-racism in contemporary Israel
Many scholars consider 'identity' and 'identity politics' to be among the most important means for cultural minority groups to challenge a discriminatory reality. Others caution that these processes might result in the polarisation of differences, potentially fuelling hatred, harsh conflict, exclusion and even violence. The tension between these two views is presented in this article through an examination of the way young Ethiopian Jews whose pa…
The Battle Over Our Homes: Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices Around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Yuval Feinstein, "The Battle over Our Homes": Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank, Israel Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, "An Army That Has a State?" (Spring, 2007), pp. 171-192
Multicultural society and everyday cultural racism: Second generation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel's ‘crisis of modernization
The core of this article sets out to examine the extent to which a multicultural society can prevent cultural racism, which, like multiculturalism, is by definition based on a culture of diversity and separation. The 'first modernity' was organized along national lines, with a centralist state that opted to create an essentialist and uncontested national identity. Immigrants, especially those who came from 'third world' countries, were expected t…
Transnational Social Movements, Civil Society, and a Secret State: The Idea of a Nuclear-free World through Israel's Vanunu Affair
Studies on transnational social movements in world risk society tend to emphasize their centrality and effectiveness as the result of two major transformations: the decline of the nation-state as a primary locus of power and sovereignty, and the rise of assertive civil societies' subpolitics. Drawing on the ‘Vanunu affair’ (the Israeli technician who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for making public Israel's nuclear secrets), and the re…
Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion
The Politics of Borders and the Borders of Politics: Sovereignty and Autonomy Around Israel's Human Rights Abuses in the Separation Barrier Project
This article takes issue with the "weak state" and "hollowing out of the state" theses, which appear in recent literatures dealing with globalization. In order to analyze the nation state's contention with various actors concerning human rights and other issues, a conceptual distinction is suggested between state autonomy and capacity-defined as the state's ability to rationally posit objectives and to realize them-and state sovereignty, defined …
Globalized Hopes and Disillusions: Israel's Institutional Transition from the Brink of Peace to New Wars
In contrast to the common tendency to see war as the result of leadership decisions based on risk assessments, and political and economic considerations about gains or losses, we use a constructivist and institutional perspective to historicize and politicize the way "nation-state interests" and "nation-state preferences" even in a decision to go to war are socially constructed and culturally embedded. We maintain that with the end of the Cold Wa…
The Civil Society, the Uncivil Society, and the Difficulty Israel Has Making Peace with the Palestinians
The difficulty Israel has making peace with the Palestinians, which became evident with the failure of the 1993 Oslo Agreements, can be explained through the internal relationships and historical dynamics within the Israeli public sphere, and the relations between the public sphere and the state. Using the terms ‘civil society’ and ‘uncivil society’ as a theoretical framework, the article examines both the relations between these two binary repre…
Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel: A spiral model
Illiberal democracies that include ultra-nationalist elements have become more common across the globe, and often go hand-in-hand with conflict and war. Most prior studies have proposed a single direction of causality such that insecurity and violence lead to the spread of illiberal political culture and the rise of illiberal political elements. In contrast, we propose a spiral process in which illiberal elements are not only the product of insec…
Intergenerational dialogue and positioning change in dealing with racism: Ethiopian Jews in Israel, thirty years after the immigration
How do immigrant’s children cope with racist hegemonic discourse? To what extent, is their response effective? The article addresses this issue through an exploration of the identity and positioning strategies of children of 100,000 ‘Black Jews’ who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia at the end of the last century. Drawing on the sociology of generations, we show that members of the second generation of Ethiopian immigrants developed a different …
Reflexive postliberal peace: A cultural paradigm shift in Israel’s peacebuilding
To what extent does postliberal peace represent a substantive cultural paradigm shift relative to the liberal peace paradigm? We offer an empirical examination of the question through the Israeli case. An analysis of sixteen peace associations shows that peace activism has changed in the last twenty years in Israel in terms of organization, orientation, and action. Such change is clearly based on reflexivity, i.e. on the attempt by the activists …
Political science (22 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (21 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (8 works) · State (computer science (8 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (7 works)