The Second Lebanon War

From Republican Control to Market Control Over the Army

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12805804
AutoresYagil Levy (0000-0003-2167-1260, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas48-68
Fecha de publicación2008-03-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDemocracy and Security (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1555-5860 • E-ISSN: 1741-9166
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17419160801897977
OpenAlexW2003437429
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas20

The Second Lebanon War reflected and accelerated a broader change in the mode of civilian supervision of the army. This change can be described as a shift from republican control to market control over the army. The historical citizen-soldier type of political control, by which the political community supervised the military through the social groups serving in the military and the social networks from which they emerged, is supplanted by market control. Market control is characterized by market-oriented monitoring of military activity stemming from the change in its social composition, the impact of the market-style competitive climate that compels the military to market its services by allowing media penetration and by dialoging directly with the public, and the commodification of military service as part of professionalization. This type of control has a contradictory effect on the army's freedom of operation: the army is provided with broader freedom of action in administering belligerent policies, largely because of changes in its social composition, but also has fewer resources with which to fund these policies, due to amplified criticism arising from a market orientation

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