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Studying Middle East Militaries: Where Do We Go from Here?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2011

Oren Barak
Oren Barak*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; e-mail: msornb@huji.ac.il
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Research on Middle East militaries is imbalanced. In recent decades, scholarly interest in Israel and Turkey has expanded, while the Arab states have more often than not been overlooked. In this essay, I suggest how to address the “gap” in the study of Arab militaries by drawing parallels with militaries in non-Arab states, which have received considerable attention.

Type
The Arab Uprisings of 2011
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , August 2011 , pp. 406 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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NOTES

1 Barak, Oren and David, Assaf, “The Arab Security Sector: A New Research Agenda for a Neglected Topic,” Armed Forces & Society 36 (2010): 804–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 This essay does not focus on Iran; however, one insight that can be gleaned from the Iranian case is how Lebanon's Hizbullah, for instance, has established itself as a parallel military force to the official army, imitating, perhaps, Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

3 “Freedom in the World 2011 Table of Independent Countries,” http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/fiw/Tables%2C%20Graphs%2C%20etc%2C%20FIW%202011_Revised%201_11_11.pdf (accessed 29 March 2011).

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11 Barak, Oren, “Towards a Representative Military? The Transformation of the Lebanese Officer Corps since 1945,” Middle East Journal 60 (2006): 75–93CrossRefGoogle Scholar; idem, The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2009).

12 Rihla ila Israʾil (A Journey to Israel) (Cairo: Madbuli, 1996).