Journal of Political and Military Sociology back issues from July 1999:
The state's contribution to social order in national societies: Somolia as an illustrative case
Jul 01, 1999; ... There is growing evidence that the spontaneous emergence of cooperation in dyads and small groups is possible without external enforcement. This has led some to conclude that social order is possible without the state. We criticize this conclusion by first drawing a distinction between local and ...
The American soldier studies of WWII: A 50th anniversary commemorative
Jul 01, 1999; ... 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of The American Soldier, a book in four volumes that has been called one of the most influential social science studies during this century and the beginning of empirical studies in military sociology. And yet, its actual empirical findings, ...
Trust and fraud: Occupation and resistance in Norway, 1940-1945
Jul 01, 1999; ... This contribution focuses on a neglected problem in the current sociology of trust, namely actors' calculated attempts to gain the advantages of trust through fraudulent means. The purpose is to illustrate the potentials and limitations of such tactical trust investments by studying the ways in ...
Examining the importance of organizational supports on family adjustment to Army life in a period of increasing separation
Jul 01, 1999; ... EXAMINING THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORTS ON FAMILY ADJUSTMENT TO ARMY LIFE IN A PERIOD OF INCREASING SEPARATION1 Journal of Political and Military Sociology 1999, Vol. 27 No. I (Summer): 4965 Though the United States has been down-sizing its military forces since the ...
The Moskos institution-occupation model: Effects on individual work related perceptions and experiences in the military
Jul 01, 1999; ... Moskos's model of military organization argues that the military is moving from a traditional 'institutional' format to a civilian or 'occupational' format. The present research examined the perceptions of organizational structure and psychological climate, and the mental and physical health of ...
How new is the 'new' political economy in relation to political sociology? Economic and sociological approaches to politics contrasted
Jul 01, 1999; ... The main purpose of this article is to place the disciplinary relationships between political sociology and political economy in a proper framework Such an endeavor is prompted by some recent conflations between these two disciplines. The main of these conflations is the attempt to transform ...
What caused the collapse of apartheid?
Jul 01, 1999; ... In a 1992 national referendum, white South Africans voted to make the transition to full democracy. What accounts for the willingness of the ruling whites to close down the forty-four-year old apartheid system and open up the political arena? Numerous explanations have been offered for the ...
The 1992 coup attempts in Venezuela: Causes and failure
Jul 01, 1999; ... Until 1992, with thirty four years of uninterrupted civilian rule, Venezuela was considered one of the most stable democracies in South America. This fact was largely due to the behavior of the military, which has played an important yet contradictory role in Venezuela's political history. In ...
German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity
Jul 01, 1999; ... German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity, by Vahakn N. Dadrian, Cambridge, Mass.: Blue Crane Books, 1996. Pp. 304. Vahakn N. Dadrian, an internationally well-known scholar on the Armenian genocide wrote an exceedingly ...
Civil Society: Challenging Western Models
Jul 01, 1999; ... Discussion and debate concerning the concept civil society has appeared in both scholarly literature and in the media. Perspectives reflected include (a) civil society as one of three major segments of a democractic society. The others are the market sector and government. Thus, civil society is ...
Emerging Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Community
Jul 01, 1999; ... Emerging Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Community, edited by Tadashi Yamamoto, Singapore: The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and The Japan Center for International Exchange, 1995. xv + 747 pp., $50.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. The chief focus of this Emerging Civil Society book is ...
Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal
Jul 01, 1999; ... Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the US. Navy's Tailhook Scandal, by William H. McMichael. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. (377 pages -- $32.95 cloth) Although eight years have elapsed since Tailhook '91, the reverberations have yet to die away. The effect of the ...
"By Force of Arms: Rape, War and Military Culture"
Jul 01, 1999; ... "By Force of Arms: Rape, War and Military Culture, " by Madeline Morris. Duke Law Journal 45(4), 651-781 (February 1996). The questions concerning the employment of women in combat units of the U.S. armed forces has been on the front burner since the recent conflict in the Persian Gulf ....
Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
Jul 01, 1999; ... Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War, by Ed Evanhoe. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. ($25.95) Ed Evanhoe's Darkmoon covers special operations during the Korean War from a broad historical perspective. Evanhoe was driven to write this history after ...
A Force Upon the Plains: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate
Jul 01, 1999; ... A Force Upon the Plains: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate, by Kenneth S. Stern. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996, 1997. The good news is that the militia movement in America will not overthrow the government of the United States anytime soon ....
Who Killed George Polk?
Jul 01, 1999; ... Who Killed George Polk?, by Elias Vlanton with Zak Mettger. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. (322 pages, no price listed) This is the third book that appeared in English since 1989 on the 1948 murder of George Polk. The first book was by Princeton University professor Edmund ...
The Captain's a Woman: Tales of a Merchant Mariner
Jul 01, 1999; ... The Captain's a Woman: Tales of a Merchant Mariner, by Deborah Doane Dempsey and Joanne Reckler Foster, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. Pp. 271. $29.95 Deborah Doane Dempsey was graduated at the top of her class from Maine Maritime Academy in 1976. She is the first woman to ...
The Soldier in Russian Politics, 1985-1996
Jul 01, 1999; ... The Soldier in Russian Politics, 1985-1996. by Robert Barylski, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction, 1998. Pp. 624. $59.95 As a work of modern history, Robert Barylski's new book will serve for some time to come as the standard for understanding the collapse and resurrection of the ...
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joints Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that led to Vietnam
Jul 01, 1999; ... Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joints Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that led to Vietnam by H.R. McMaster, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. Pp. xviii+446. $18.00. For those that served in the Vietnam conflict, counter-insurgency and finally the war ...
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong
Jul 01, 1999; ... Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong, by Mark Moyar, Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. 416. $29.95 Those too young to remember the war in Vietnam can usually handle it with less emotion than can those of us whose lives were ...
Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missle Defense and 'Just War' Today
Jul 01, 1999; ... Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and 'Just War' Today, Edited by Elliott Abrams, Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1998. pp. 389 (paper covers), $19.95. The evolution of morality in warfare can be traced back at least to St. Augustine and arguably ...
Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy
Jul 01, 1999; ... Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy, Edited by Elliott Abrams, Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1998. pp. 112 (paper covers), $14.95. A companion book to Abrams' Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and 'Just War' Today, Honor ...
Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations
Jul 01, 1999; ... Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations, by John Hillen. Brassey's, Inc., Dulles, VA, 1998. 320 pages, $26.95 John Hillen's Blue Helmets is an excellent account of United Nations peacekeeping and other missions for the last fifty years. It distinguishes sharply between the ...
Justice and Procedure in the Sea Services
Jul 01, 1999; ... Justice and Procedure in the Sea Services, by Brent G. Filbert and Alan G. Kaufman Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1997, pp. 400. $35 In their preface to this book, the authors tell us that this volume is not for the attorney, but primarily written for "use by ...
Game Without End: State Terror and the Politics of Justice
Jul 01, 1999; ... Game Without End: State Terror and the Politics of Justice by Jaime MalamudGoti, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996, 235 pp. This book deals with the origins and collapse of the military government in Argentina that existed between 1976 and 1983, as well as the ...
Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-1983
Jul 01, 1999; ... Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-1983 by Russell C. Crandall, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, (334 pages,) The uncertainty now brewing in Chile surrounding the arrest of former dictator Augusto Pinochet is a firm ...
Politics of the Lesser Evil: Leadership, Democracy and Jaruzelski's Poland
Jul 01, 1999; ... Politics of the Lesser Evil: Leadership, Democracy and Jaruzelski's Poland, by Anton Pelinka, Transaction Pub., 1999, bibliography, index (259 pages). In the course of analyzing the role of General Jaruzelski in first repressing, and then liberating, Poland's democracy movement, Anton ...
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
Jul 01, 1999; ... Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, by Barbara Ehrenreich. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt), 1997. (292 pages, $25.00) Ehrenreich s book contains several themes: predator beasts, sacrifice, and, of course, the passions that lead to war. If ever a book was ...
The Adaptive Military
Jul 01, 1999; ... The Adaptive Military, by James Burk, Editor, 2nd edition, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998; (227 pages, $22.95 paper) First published as Military in New Times in 1994, this second edition apparently contains only a small amount of new material in the introductory chapter ...
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
Jul 01, 1999; ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death, by Susan D. Moeller, New York: Routledge, 1999, 390 pp. $27.50 cloth. On the cover of Compassion Fatigue, beneath a translucent dust jacket that shields anyone who picks up the book from immediately encountering it, ...