Recently added articles from Journal of Political and Military Sociology:
EVANGELICAL ELITES IN THE U.S. MILITARY
Dec 01, 2007; Lindsay, D Michael ... American evangelicals have become dominant players within the United States government. One particularly important domain of elite activity has been the U.S. military. Through important institutions like the Pentagon and the U.S. Air Force Academy, a cohort of civilian and military leaders have ...
EXTENDING POLITICAL RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE CASE OF KUWAIT1
Dec 01, 2007; Rizzo, Helen; Meyer, Katherine; Ali, Yousef ... We developed models to explain Kuwaiti citizens' views in the 1990s towards expanding citizenship rights for women and for stateless people. These models address why women have recently achieved more rights while the stateless have not. They examine the impact of social statuses, cultural ...
A COMPARISON OF CIVILIAN AND ENLISTED DIVORCE RATES DURING THE EARLY ALL VOLUNTEER FORCE ERA*
Dec 01, 2007; Lundquist, Jennifer Hickes ... The belief that enlisted military divorce rates are unusually high is a recurring theme expressed among those living in the military community, yet quantitative data on military divorce rates remain a virtual lacuna. The all-volunteer enlisted force also happens to be an almost all-married ...
ADDING THE DOMESTIC DETERMINANTS TO GREEK FOREIGN POLICY
Dec 01, 2007; Kalaitzidis, Akis; Felsen, David ... By most accounts, Greece's foreign policy choices since becoming a member of the European Union have been viewed as largely ineffective. Our paper seeks to account for the complexities, inconsistencies and changes in Greek foreign policy by looking at both domestic and international factors that ...
REVOLUTION: IMMUNITY FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACIES?
Dec 01, 2007; Regan, Patrick M; Just, Daniel; Paskeviciute, Aida ... While social revolutions have been the focus of considerable scholarly attention over the past quarter century, little effort has been made to consider the prospects for revolution in the industrialized West. This odd fact exists in spite of Goldstone's claim that the present-day United States ...
THE USE AND ABUSE OF CULTURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD
Dec 01, 2007; Stivachtis, Yannis A ... There is currently a tendency to overemphasize culture and view it as the only identity-referent as well as the cause and explanation of almost all social and political phenomena both at the domestic and international levels. The article suggests that this tendency is both problematic and ...
INTERNATIONAL NORMS, THE NONRACIAL STRUGGLE, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN DEMOCRATIZATION1
Dec 01, 2007; Emery, Alan ... What is the relationship between the anti-apartheid movement's advocacy of nonracialism, international norm evolution, and the transformation of political parties in contemporary South Africa? Party transformation has accompanied a revolution in politics. Whereas under apartheid, the primary ...
MARKETS, STATES AND SOCIETIES IN THE GOVERNANCE OF MONEY
Dec 01, 2007; Kaelberer, Mathias ... Current monetary transformation processes-such as the creation of the euro, dollarization and electronic money-force us to reflect more fundamentally on the nature of monetary governance. This paper argues that the key to a more comprehensive understanding of money is to move the analysis beyond ...
MILITARY DIVERSION IN THE 1978 UGANDA-TANZANIA WAR
Dec 01, 2007; Mambo, Andrew; Schofield, Julian ... This article elaborates on the phenomenon of military diversion as a subset of domestic causes of international conflict. Specifically, we test a theory of whether there is a type of diversion that targets the military as the in-group, as opposed to the civil population dealt with by most other ...
Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective
Dec 01, 2007; Sanoja, Pedro ... Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective by Harold A. Trinkunas. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. (312 pages; cloth, paper) Reviewed by Pedro Sanoja Temple University Why do men with guns obey men without ...
Social Change in Contemporary China: C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion
Dec 01, 2007; Li, Lianjiang ... Social Change in Contemporary China: C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion by Wenfang Tang and Burkart Holzner (Eds.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. (336 pages; cloth, paper) Reviewed by Lianjiang Li Chinese University of Hong ...
Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority
Dec 01, 2007; Rogers, Tom ... Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority by Oded Löwenheim. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. (280 pages; cloth, paper) Reviewed by Tom Rogers Independent Scholar In Predators and Parasites, Oded Löwenheim ...
Order and Anarchy: Civil Society, Social Disorder and War
Dec 01, 2007; Stanton, Samuel S Jr ... Order and Anarchy: Civil Society, Social Disorder and War by Robert Layton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (202 pages; cloth, paper) Reviewed by Samuel S. Stanton, Jr. Grove City College Order and Anarchy strives to make us rethink the definition of and ...
Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War
Dec 01, 2007; Mountcastle, John W ... Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War by Christopher S. DeRosa. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. (336 pages; cloth) Reviewed by John W. Mountcastle Brig. Gen., USA (ret) This is a very well-written and fully documented ...
The New American Imperialism: Bush's War on Terror and Blood for Oil
Dec 01, 2007; Mainuddin, Rolin ... The New American Imperialism: Bush's War on Terror and Blood for Oil by Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2005. (272 pages; cloth) Reviewed by Rolin Mainuddin North Carolina Central University Why do hegemons decline? ...