Tamir Libel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6108178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamir Libel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamir |
| FAMILY NAME | Libel |
| SIGNATURE | LIBEL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5141-7418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The impact of artificial intelligence on the officer corps
Committed to its Founding Principles
Armed Forces & Society ( AF&S) marks its 50th anniversary in 2024. The objective of this study is to assess the journal’s adherence to its founding principles encompassing interdisciplinarity, internationalism, and its role as a bridge between the military and academia. This study extends a 25- and 40-year analysis by Ender and Sookermany et al., who examined trends in authorship and affiliation in AF&S. This study covers 50 years, includes 1,415…
Academic–Military Relations in U.S. and Allied Professional Military Education Organizations, 1991–2024
This article explores the evolution of academic–military relations within professional military education (PME) organizations and between them and higher education authorities in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Traditionally distinct from universities in governance, curriculum quality, and faculty composition, PME organizations have increasingly aligned with academic standards, practices, and…
Strategic culture as a (discursive) institution
In spite of theoretical and methodological diversity, the three generations of the strategic culture literature failed to overcome the main challenge of the approach – to account for change in behavior – due to two fallacies: Conceptualizing strategic culture as homogenous on the national level and continuous on the temporal level. However, the recent emergence of fourth generation in the literature offers prospects for overcoming them. The artic…
Rethinking strategic culture
The strategic culture approach has been suffering from a prolonged theoretical stalemate, despite a surge in case studies, which culminated in the Johnston-Gray debate and subsequent schism. The present paper outlines a new approach designed to overcome this deadlock, and consists of three arguments. First, the three previous generations of strategic culture studies have failed to explain how strategic culture influences behaviour. Second, aligni…
From the sociology of the (military) profession to the sociology of (security) expertise
Few would disagree that European militaries have experienced dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War. Much of the discussion on these changes to date has referred to the concept of professionalism. However, this approach became outdated as professions in post-industrialist societies entered a state of crisis as a result of growing competition from a variety of competitors. The present study adapts a new framework from the sociology of know…
Israel’s way of war
Israel’s way of war: a strategic and operational analysis, 1948–2014." Defence Studies, 16(4), pp. 456–457
Explaining the security paradigm shift
The paper’s main argument is that Israel’s security policy, which traditionally focused on defending its territorial integrity against regular Arab armed forces, was, by the 2010s, transformed into one that focuses on facing a variety of state- and non-state-based threats. Neo-realist explanations could neither account for the contested nature of the security debate during this period, nor the inconsistent evolution of the policy. The present stu…
From the people's army to the Jewish people's army
The article discusses processes of “religionization” within the institutional identity and ethos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the connection of these processes with the significant structural changes the IDF has undergone in recent decades. The main argument presented is that since the late 1980s, the IDF has been in a culture conflict, torn between soldiers and civilians who advocate turning the IDF into a professional army “military p…
Explaining the security paradigm shift
The paper’s main argument is that Israel’s security policy, which traditionally focused on defending its territorial integrity against regular Arab armed forces, was, by the 2010s, transformed into one that focuses on facing a variety of state- and non-state-based threats. Neo-realist explanations could neither account for the contested nature of the security debate during this period, nor the inconsistent evolution of the policy. The present stu…
Rethinking strategic culture
The strategic culture approach has been suffering from a prolonged theoretical stalemate, despite a surge in case studies, which culminated in the Johnston-Gray debate and subsequent schism. The present paper outlines a new approach designed to overcome this deadlock, and consists of three arguments. First, the three previous generations of strategic culture studies have failed to explain how strategic culture influences behaviour. Second, aligni…
From the sociology of the (military) profession to the sociology of (security) expertise
Few would disagree that European militaries have experienced dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War. Much of the discussion on these changes to date has referred to the concept of professionalism. However, this approach became outdated as professions in post-industrialist societies entered a state of crisis as a result of growing competition from a variety of competitors. The present study adapts a new framework from the sociology of know…
The impact of artificial intelligence on the officer corps
Academic–Military Relations in U.S. and Allied Professional Military Education Organizations, 1991–2024
This article explores the evolution of academic–military relations within professional military education (PME) organizations and between them and higher education authorities in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Traditionally distinct from universities in governance, curriculum quality, and faculty composition, PME organizations have increasingly aligned with academic standards, practices, and…
Strategic culture as a (discursive) institution
In spite of theoretical and methodological diversity, the three generations of the strategic culture literature failed to overcome the main challenge of the approach – to account for change in behavior – due to two fallacies: Conceptualizing strategic culture as homogenous on the national level and continuous on the temporal level. However, the recent emergence of fourth generation in the literature offers prospects for overcoming them. The artic…
Israel’s way of war
Israel’s way of war: a strategic and operational analysis, 1948–2014." Defence Studies, 16(4), pp. 456–457
From the people's army to the Jewish people's army
The article discusses processes of “religionization” within the institutional identity and ethos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the connection of these processes with the significant structural changes the IDF has undergone in recent decades. The main argument presented is that since the late 1980s, the IDF has been in a culture conflict, torn between soldiers and civilians who advocate turning the IDF into a professional army “military p…
Israel’s way of war
Israel’s way of war: a strategic and operational analysis, 1948–2014." Defence Studies, 16(4), pp. 456–457
Explaining the security paradigm shift
The paper’s main argument is that Israel’s security policy, which traditionally focused on defending its territorial integrity against regular Arab armed forces, was, by the 2010s, transformed into one that focuses on facing a variety of state- and non-state-based threats. Neo-realist explanations could neither account for the contested nature of the security debate during this period, nor the inconsistent evolution of the policy. The present stu…
From the sociology of the (military) profession to the sociology of (security) expertise
Few would disagree that European militaries have experienced dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War. Much of the discussion on these changes to date has referred to the concept of professionalism. However, this approach became outdated as professions in post-industrialist societies entered a state of crisis as a result of growing competition from a variety of competitors. The present study adapts a new framework from the sociology of know…
Strategic culture as a (discursive) institution
In spite of theoretical and methodological diversity, the three generations of the strategic culture literature failed to overcome the main challenge of the approach – to account for change in behavior – due to two fallacies: Conceptualizing strategic culture as homogenous on the national level and continuous on the temporal level. However, the recent emergence of fourth generation in the literature offers prospects for overcoming them. The artic…
Rethinking strategic culture
The strategic culture approach has been suffering from a prolonged theoretical stalemate, despite a surge in case studies, which culminated in the Johnston-Gray debate and subsequent schism. The present paper outlines a new approach designed to overcome this deadlock, and consists of three arguments. First, the three previous generations of strategic culture studies have failed to explain how strategic culture influences behaviour. Second, aligni…
The impact of artificial intelligence on the officer corps
Committed to its Founding Principles
Armed Forces & Society ( AF&S) marks its 50th anniversary in 2024. The objective of this study is to assess the journal’s adherence to its founding principles encompassing interdisciplinarity, internationalism, and its role as a bridge between the military and academia. This study extends a 25- and 40-year analysis by Ender and Sookermany et al., who examined trends in authorship and affiliation in AF&S. This study covers 50 years, includes 1,415…
Academic–Military Relations in U.S. and Allied Professional Military Education Organizations, 1991–2024
This article explores the evolution of academic–military relations within professional military education (PME) organizations and between them and higher education authorities in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Traditionally distinct from universities in governance, curriculum quality, and faculty composition, PME organizations have increasingly aligned with academic standards, practices, and…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Military History and Strategy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)