Military Heroism in a Post-Heroic Era / The Military and Society (PDF)

Uzi Ben-Shalom is a sociologist and psychologist of the military and is presently Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ariel University. He is also current Chair of the Israel Association for Civil-Military Relations. He is a lieutenant-colonel in the IDF and has served over twenty years in the Intelligence Corps and the Behavioral Sciences Center of the military. He has published over ninety publications dealing with the military and security. His research is focused on social cohesion, leadership, and human resources in security related organization.


René Moelker (Rotterdam, 1960) is associate professor of sociology at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy. He holds a Ph.D. from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work in military sociology concentrates on the sociology of military families, military technology, military profession, the military sociology of Norbert Elias, military education, conflictin Chechnya and media, He is the author of several books on the above mentioned topics and was awarded the Morris Janowitz Award.

Nehemia Stern is a lecturer in sociology and anthropology in Ariel University. He received his PhD from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University in 2014. His research now focuses on the anthropology of the military, where he has published several articles on everyday military experiences.Eyal Ben-Ari was a professor of sociology and anthropology at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem and currently Senior Fellow in the Jerusalem Institutefor Security and Strategy. He has carried out work in Israel, Japan, Singapore,Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has published twenty-five authored and edited booksmostly about the armed forces but also about early childhood education andwhite-collar communities in Japan, the social contexts of creativity, or thespread of Japanese popular culture around the world.