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The Arab Military Elite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Amos Perlmutter
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The field of modern civil-military relations is not a totally fresh one, still unexplored. Kurt Lang's 1969 bibliography on military sociology lists over one thousand items—books, articles, and unpublished material—and this catalogue includes only the material available in English. His section on civil-military relations lists some 250 items,1an impressive accumulation in a supposedly new field.

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World Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , January 1970 , pp. 269 - 300
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1970

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27 See the pioneer volume, Bienen, Henri, ed., The Military Intervenes (New York 1968Google Scholar); Nordlinger, Eric, “Soldiers in Mufti,” unpub. paper, C.F.I.A., Harvard University (February 1969Google Scholar); and Perlmutter, “The Praetorian State.”

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31 The literature on the relation between ideology and organization is growing. See Schurmann, Franz, Ideology and Organization in Communist China (Berkeley 1967Google Scholar); Selznick, Philip, Leadership in Administration (New York 1954Google Scholar); and Perlmutter, Amos, “Ideology and Organization: The Socialist-Zionist Parties in Israel 1896–1959,” doctoral diss., University of California (Berkeley 1957Google Scholar).

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