Author(s)

David Schwartz¹, Daniel Galily²

¹Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
²Los Angeles University, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

From the late 1970s, there was a debate on Jabotinsky’s approach to the idea of militarism. The argument revolved around two different opinions on the topic. The first opinion among the researchers saw his idea of militarism as an active concept that expresses correspondence between his opinions and the fascist ideas in Europe. It is certainly possible to see that the findings are commensurate with the opinions of the researchers who argue that according to Jabotinsky, the liberal outlook pertains to the person’s natural rights as a person, in contrast to classic and pure liberalism, which acts in the name of the free society. According to examination of his writings, it is safe to assume that, for Jabotinsky, the liberal values were more dominated than the militaristic values.

Jabotinsky, Liberalism, Militarism

Schwartz, D. and Galily, D. (2017) The Impact of Liberalism on the Idea of Militarism according to the Doctrine of Zeev Jabotinsky. Open Journal of Political Science, 7, 283-290. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2017.72023.