Stuart Alan Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4186957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Alan Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2931-4495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond the Conventional Civil-Military 'Gap: Cleavages and Convergences in Israel
This article modifies the framework for the analysis of civil-military 'gaps' proposed in Armed Forces & Society (Vol. 38, 2012) by Rahbek-Clemmensen, Archer, Barr, Belkin, Guerro, Hall, and Swain, who depicted a continuum of four binary fissures ('gap dimensions') dividing two hypothetically homogeneous communities: civilians versus military personnel. Extrapolating from Israel's experience, this article instead visualizes a more dynamic and fis…
The Concept of the Three Ketarim: Their Place in Jewish Political Thought and Implications for Studying Jewish Constitutional History
This chapter examines the institutional processes whereby the stream of covenantal arrangements that have characterized the various epochs of Jewish constitutional history have been put into effect. It demonstrates that the concept of the three ketarim encapsulates the organizational system whereby Jewish polities traditionally—and consistently—distributed authority among and between specific governmental instrumentalities. The chapter suggests t…
Swimming against the tide: The changing functions and status of chaplains in the Israel Defense Force
This article describes and analyses the changes that have occurred in the services performed by chaplains in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) – the only military in the world that consists almost entirely of Jews. Essentially, we argue, the shift has been one of focus. For many years, IDF chaplains primarily (albeit never exclusively) concerned themselves with providing religious services to the minority of personnel who observed Orthodox Jewish ri…
Religion in the Military Worldwide
How does religion affect the lives of professional soldiers? How does religion shape militaries, their organization, procedures, and performance? This volume is the first to address these questions by comparing religious symbols and practices in nine countries: Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, India, the United States, and Turkey. The contributors explore how and why soldiers pray, the role of religious rituals prior to …
Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity and Religion in Israel, 1925–2005
Nadav G. Shelef, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010, 296 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-4870-6 Nadav Shelef's book is based on two main premises. One is that nationalism, as a political concep
The Quest for a Corpus of Jewish Military Ethics in Modern Israel
Post-biblical Jewish religious thought devoted little attention to analyses of warfare and the religious and ethical problems that it poses. During the past 50 years that situation has changed dramatically. The ubiquity of military service and armed conflict in the contemporary Israeli experience has stimulated intense interest in hilkhot tzava u-milhamah ([religious] laws concerning the army and warfare), which have been elucidated in detailed a…
Tensions Between Military Service and Jewish Orthodoxy In Israel: Implications Imagined and Real
Recent years have witnessed a significant rise in the numbers of "national religious" soldiers in IDF combat units. As a result, their sociological and cultural profile has become a matter of considerable public and academic interest. Particular attention has been focused on the strains that might be placed on the military loyalties of national religious troops, should they be required to carry out missions that they interpret as being contrary t…
The Re-Discovery of Orthodox Jewish Laws Relating to the Military and War ( Hilkhot Tzavah U-Milchamah ) in Contemporary Israel: Trends and Implications
Warfare was noticeably marginalized in the vast library of pre-modern texts that transmit orthodox Judaism. Contemporary rabbinic literature presents an entirely different picture. The ubiquity of military service and armed conflict in the modern Israeli experience has, over the past fifty years, stimulated intense interest in hilkhot tzavah u-milchamah [religious] laws relating to the military and war). Hitherto, scholarly interest in the new Je…
Changing Civil–Military Relations in Israel: Towards an Over-subordinate IDF
The Changing Jewish Discourse on Armed Conflict: Themes and Implications
The ubiquity of military service and armed conflict in the contemporary Israeli experience has stimulated intense Jewish theological discourse in matters relevant to armed conflict. Warfare and its conduct, subjects that for almost two millennia constituted one of the great lacunae of rabbinic instruction, are now addressed in a swelling tide of detailed and erudite publications. The present essay outlines the contours of that discourse. Focusing…
Changing societal‐military relations in Israel: The operational implications
How to mount a successful coup d'etat: Lessons from the Bible (II Kings 11, II Chronicles 23)
The process whereby queen Athaliah was deposed and replaced as monarch of Judah by the boy‐king Joash in the seventh century bce warrants analysis as a typical ‘coup d'etat’. The purpose of the present article is to interpret the relevant biblical narratives (II Kings II and 11 Chron. 23) in terms relevant to that political concept. Specifically, it posits that the organization and implementation of this highly successful coup can be illuminated …
Operational limitations of reserve forces: The lessons of the 1973 war
From Integration to Segregation The Role of Religion in the IDF
The role of religion in Israeli military service is so inherently complex that it resists classification in accordance with conventional paradigms. Although certainly the military arm of a secular and liberal state, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) makes no attempt to confine religious themes to the domain of the army chaplain. Rather, traditional Jewish motifs permeate multiple areas of military life and are frequently mobilized for military purpo…
Towards a new portrait of the (new) Israeli soldier
(1997). Towards a new portrait of the (new) Israeli soldier. Israel Affairs: Vol. 3, From Robin to Netyanyahu: Israel's Troubled Agenda, pp. 77-114
The Sword or the Scroll? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel
The peace process and its impact on the development of a “slimmer and smarter” Israel defence force
Small states and their armies: Restructuring the militia framework of the Israel defense force
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF): From a 'People's Army' to a 'Professional Military'-Causes and Implications
Ever since its establishment in 1948, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has exhibited characteristics conventionally associated with a 'people's army.' The composition of its force structure (mainly based on compulsory conscription and reserve duty) has both reflected and reinforced that image. During the past decade, however, the relative weights of the IDF's manpower complement have begun to change. While reserve duty is being reduced and conscrip…
Imperial policing against illegal immigration: The Royal Navy and Palestine, 1945–48
(1994). Imperial policing against illegal immigration: The Royal Navy and Palestine, 1945–48. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 275-293
Changing emphases in Israel's military commitments, 1981–1991: Causes and consequences
(1992). Changing emphases in Israel's military commitments, 1981–1991: Causes and consequences. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 330-350
Varieties of counter‐insurgency activities: Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, 1948–90
(1991). Varieties of counter‐insurgency activities: Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, 1948–90. Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 41-60
A taxonomy of Israel's use of military force
This article analyzes the spectrum of Israel's use of military force. Employing a comparative theoretical framework, it offers a taxonomy of that experience based on three criteria: the character of envisaged political goals, the type of military strategy preferred, and the scope of forces engaged. The combination of those criteria produces eight individual modes of force, each of which is examined (with supplementary illustrations being provided…
The Three Crowns: Structures of Communal Politics in Early Rabbinic Jewry
The Jewish national revival of our times has stimulated scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action. This study is a contribution to that enquiry. Focusing on the structures of communal rule forged during the first five centuries of the common era, the book presents an analysis of the processes whereby the rabbis and their disciples replaced both …
A Still Stranger Aspect of Suez: British Operational Plans to Attack Israel, 1955–1956
21 October 1 956, Moshe Dayan (then chief of the Israeli I general staff) confided to his diary his feeling that: 'Save for the Almighty, only the British are capable of complicating affairs to such a degree. At the very moment when they are preparing to topple Nasser, who is a common enemy of theirs and Israel's, they insist on getting the Iraqi Army into Jordan, even if such action leads to war between Israel and Jordan in which they, the Briti…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF): From a 'People's Army' to a 'Professional Military'-Causes and Implications
Ever since its establishment in 1948, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has exhibited characteristics conventionally associated with a 'people's army.' The composition of its force structure (mainly based on compulsory conscription and reserve duty) has both reflected and reinforced that image. During the past decade, however, the relative weights of the IDF's manpower complement have begun to change. While reserve duty is being reduced and conscrip…
Towards a new portrait of the (new) Israeli soldier
(1997). Towards a new portrait of the (new) Israeli soldier. Israel Affairs: Vol. 3, From Robin to Netyanyahu: Israel's Troubled Agenda, pp. 77-114
Changing Civil–Military Relations in Israel: Towards an Over-subordinate IDF
From Integration to Segregation The Role of Religion in the IDF
The role of religion in Israeli military service is so inherently complex that it resists classification in accordance with conventional paradigms. Although certainly the military arm of a secular and liberal state, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) makes no attempt to confine religious themes to the domain of the army chaplain. Rather, traditional Jewish motifs permeate multiple areas of military life and are frequently mobilized for military purpo…
Swimming against the tide: The changing functions and status of chaplains in the Israel Defense Force
This article describes and analyses the changes that have occurred in the services performed by chaplains in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) – the only military in the world that consists almost entirely of Jews. Essentially, we argue, the shift has been one of focus. For many years, IDF chaplains primarily (albeit never exclusively) concerned themselves with providing religious services to the minority of personnel who observed Orthodox Jewish ri…
The Re-Discovery of Orthodox Jewish Laws Relating to the Military and War ( Hilkhot Tzavah U-Milchamah ) in Contemporary Israel: Trends and Implications
Warfare was noticeably marginalized in the vast library of pre-modern texts that transmit orthodox Judaism. Contemporary rabbinic literature presents an entirely different picture. The ubiquity of military service and armed conflict in the modern Israeli experience has, over the past fifty years, stimulated intense interest in hilkhot tzavah u-milchamah [religious] laws relating to the military and war). Hitherto, scholarly interest in the new Je…
The Sword or the Scroll? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel
Tensions Between Military Service and Jewish Orthodoxy In Israel: Implications Imagined and Real
Recent years have witnessed a significant rise in the numbers of "national religious" soldiers in IDF combat units. As a result, their sociological and cultural profile has become a matter of considerable public and academic interest. Particular attention has been focused on the strains that might be placed on the military loyalties of national religious troops, should they be required to carry out missions that they interpret as being contrary t…
Beyond the Conventional Civil-Military 'Gap: Cleavages and Convergences in Israel
This article modifies the framework for the analysis of civil-military 'gaps' proposed in Armed Forces & Society (Vol. 38, 2012) by Rahbek-Clemmensen, Archer, Barr, Belkin, Guerro, Hall, and Swain, who depicted a continuum of four binary fissures ('gap dimensions') dividing two hypothetically homogeneous communities: civilians versus military personnel. Extrapolating from Israel's experience, this article instead visualizes a more dynamic and fis…
Changing societal‐military relations in Israel: The operational implications
A taxonomy of Israel's use of military force
This article analyzes the spectrum of Israel's use of military force. Employing a comparative theoretical framework, it offers a taxonomy of that experience based on three criteria: the character of envisaged political goals, the type of military strategy preferred, and the scope of forces engaged. The combination of those criteria produces eight individual modes of force, each of which is examined (with supplementary illustrations being provided…
The Changing Jewish Discourse on Armed Conflict: Themes and Implications
The ubiquity of military service and armed conflict in the contemporary Israeli experience has stimulated intense Jewish theological discourse in matters relevant to armed conflict. Warfare and its conduct, subjects that for almost two millennia constituted one of the great lacunae of rabbinic instruction, are now addressed in a swelling tide of detailed and erudite publications. The present essay outlines the contours of that discourse. Focusing…
Changing emphases in Israel's military commitments, 1981–1991: Causes and consequences
(1992). Changing emphases in Israel's military commitments, 1981–1991: Causes and consequences. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 330-350
Varieties of counter‐insurgency activities: Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, 1948–90
(1991). Varieties of counter‐insurgency activities: Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, 1948–90. Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 41-60
A Still Stranger Aspect of Suez: British Operational Plans to Attack Israel, 1955–1956
21 October 1 956, Moshe Dayan (then chief of the Israeli I general staff) confided to his diary his feeling that: 'Save for the Almighty, only the British are capable of complicating affairs to such a degree. At the very moment when they are preparing to topple Nasser, who is a common enemy of theirs and Israel's, they insist on getting the Iraqi Army into Jordan, even if such action leads to war between Israel and Jordan in which they, the Briti…
Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity and Religion in Israel, 1925–2005
Nadav G. Shelef, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010, 296 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-4870-6 Nadav Shelef's book is based on two main premises. One is that nationalism, as a political concep
The Quest for a Corpus of Jewish Military Ethics in Modern Israel
Post-biblical Jewish religious thought devoted little attention to analyses of warfare and the religious and ethical problems that it poses. During the past 50 years that situation has changed dramatically. The ubiquity of military service and armed conflict in the contemporary Israeli experience has stimulated intense interest in hilkhot tzava u-milhamah ([religious] laws concerning the army and warfare), which have been elucidated in detailed a…
The peace process and its impact on the development of a “slimmer and smarter” Israel defence force
Small states and their armies: Restructuring the militia framework of the Israel defense force
The Concept of the Three Ketarim: Its Place in Jewish Political Thought and Its Implications for a Study of Jewish Constitutional History
Jewish political traditions, it has been argued, constitute an integral facet of Jewish civilization in its entirety. They reflect a constant — albeit often implicit — understanding that the validity of Jewish teaching can best find expression in a political setting. They also embody Judaism's commitment to the establishment of the perfect polity. As implemented through the process of covenant ( brit ), and as buttressed by the attribute of lovin…
Mesopotamia in British Strategy, 1903–1914
Britain's strategic interest in Mesopotamia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a consequence of her control over India. The valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates constitute a natural highway from Syria to the Persian Gulf, and thence to the Indian Ocean. Not until a relatively late stage in Imperial history, however, did Britain extend her formal protection to this region. In the nineteenth century successive British government…
The genesis of the British campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914
(1976). The genesis of the British campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 119-132
Sir Arthur Nicolson and Russia: The Case of the Baghdad Railway
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The genesis of the British campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914
(1976). The genesis of the British campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 119-132
Mesopotamia in British Strategy, 1903–1914
Britain's strategic interest in Mesopotamia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a consequence of her control over India. The valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates constitute a natural highway from Syria to the Persian Gulf, and thence to the Indian Ocean. Not until a relatively late stage in Imperial history, however, did Britain extend her formal protection to this region. In the nineteenth century successive British government…
The Tactics of Revolt: The English Zionist Federation and Anglo-Jewry, 1895-1904
Israel Zangwill's project for Jewish colonization in Mesopotamia: Its context and character
Zionist aspirations, according to some Arab leaders, are not limited to the region between the Mediterranean and the river Jordan, but extend to the entire area between the Nile and the Euphrates.' The present paper does not propose to discuss the possible validity of that suspicion. It intends, rather, to indicate one possible historical basis for it. Admittedly, official Zionist attention has always been centred on Palestine itself. Yet, especi…
English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1896-1920
Demonstrating that the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish community to modern Jewish nationalism was far more complex than conventionally thought, Stuart A. Cohen argues that the conflict between Zionists and anti-Zionists, although often stated in strictly ideological terms, was also an aspect of a larger contest for community control. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make a…
English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1895-1920
Demonstrating that the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish community to modern Jewish nationalism was far more complex than conventionally thought, Stuart A. Cohen argues that the conflict between Zionists and anti-Zionists, although often stated in strictly ideological terms, was also an aspect of a larger contest for community control. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make a…
At the Crossroads: Essays on Ahad Ha-Am
The Concept of the Three Ketarim: Its Place in Jewish Political Thought and Its Implications for a Study of Jewish Constitutional History
Jewish political traditions, it has been argued, constitute an integral facet of Jewish civilization in its entirety. They reflect a constant — albeit often implicit — understanding that the validity of Jewish teaching can best find expression in a political setting. They also embody Judaism's commitment to the establishment of the perfect polity. As implemented through the process of covenant ( brit ), and as buttressed by the attribute of lovin…
The Jewish Polity: Jewish Political Organization from Biblical Times to the Present
The Jewish Polity: Jewish Political Organization from Biblical Times to the Present
A Still Stranger Aspect of Suez: British Operational Plans to Attack Israel, 1955–1956
21 October 1 956, Moshe Dayan (then chief of the Israeli I general staff) confided to his diary his feeling that: 'Save for the Almighty, only the British are capable of complicating affairs to such a degree. At the very moment when they are preparing to topple Nasser, who is a common enemy of theirs and Israel's, they insist on getting the Iraqi Army into Jordan, even if such action leads to war between Israel and Jordan in which they, the Briti…
The Three Crowns: Structures of Communal Politics in Early Rabbinic Jewry
The Jewish national revival of our times has stimulated scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action. This study is a contribution to that enquiry. Focusing on the structures of communal rule forged during the first five centuries of the common era, the book presents an analysis of the processes whereby the rabbis and their disciples replaced both …
Varieties of counter‐insurgency activities: Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, 1948–90
(1991). Varieties of counter‐insurgency activities: Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, 1948–90. Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 41-60
A taxonomy of Israel's use of military force
This article analyzes the spectrum of Israel's use of military force. Employing a comparative theoretical framework, it offers a taxonomy of that experience based on three criteria: the character of envisaged political goals, the type of military strategy preferred, and the scope of forces engaged. The combination of those criteria produces eight individual modes of force, each of which is examined (with supplementary illustrations being provided…
Changing emphases in Israel's military commitments, 1981–1991: Causes and consequences
(1992). Changing emphases in Israel's military commitments, 1981–1991: Causes and consequences. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 330-350
Imperial policing against illegal immigration: The Royal Navy and Palestine, 1945–48
(1994). Imperial policing against illegal immigration: The Royal Navy and Palestine, 1945–48. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 275-293
The peace process and its impact on the development of a “slimmer and smarter” Israel defence force
Small states and their armies: Restructuring the militia framework of the Israel defense force
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF): From a 'People's Army' to a 'Professional Military'-Causes and Implications
Ever since its establishment in 1948, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has exhibited characteristics conventionally associated with a 'people's army.' The composition of its force structure (mainly based on compulsory conscription and reserve duty) has both reflected and reinforced that image. During the past decade, however, the relative weights of the IDF's manpower complement have begun to change. While reserve duty is being reduced and conscrip…
Towards a new portrait of the (new) Israeli soldier
(1997). Towards a new portrait of the (new) Israeli soldier. Israel Affairs: Vol. 3, From Robin to Netyanyahu: Israel's Troubled Agenda, pp. 77-114
The Sword or the Scroll? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel
Operational limitations of reserve forces: The lessons of the 1973 war
From Integration to Segregation The Role of Religion in the IDF
The role of religion in Israeli military service is so inherently complex that it resists classification in accordance with conventional paradigms. Although certainly the military arm of a secular and liberal state, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) makes no attempt to confine religious themes to the domain of the army chaplain. Rather, traditional Jewish motifs permeate multiple areas of military life and are frequently mobilized for military purpo…
Changing societal‐military relations in Israel: The operational implications
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