Journal of Political and Military Sociology back issues from January 2003:
COMMEMORATING THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF SHIVAJI IN MAHARASHTRA, INDIA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAHARASHTRIAN PUBLIC POLITICS
Jan 01, 2003; ... This article looks at the ways that the commemoration of the seventeenth-century king Shivaji was instrumental in the development of public politics in the Marathi speaking region of western India. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, almost 200 years after his death, there was a growing ...
The Serbs History, Myth and The Destruction of Yugoslavia
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Serbs History, Myth and The Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Tim Judah, an economist and a war correspondent in former Yugoslavia for the London Times, explores the Serbian nation from the great epics of the history to the ...
Political Conflict in Southern Europe: Regulation, Regression and Morphogenesis
Jan 01, 2003; ... Political Conflict in Southern Europe: Regulation, Regression and Morphogenesis by Edward A. Ziegenhagen and Kleomenis S: Koutsoukis, 1992. The focus of this book 5s on the management and regulation of political conflict. It is as timely today as it was when it was written almost a ...
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Yoram Peri. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000. This book is a collective effort of 15 distinguished social scientists and contributions of a range of disciplines - historical, psychological, sociological, political, and cultural ...
Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
Jan 01, 2003; ... Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America by Jeffery M. Paige. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. This is a book in political economy. Jeffrey Paige shows how the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992 in Central America (El Salvador, Costa ...
Systems of War and Peace
Jan 01, 2003; ... Systems of War and Peace by Theodore Caplow and Louis Hicks. Lanharn, MD: University Press of America, 2002. (pp. 271 / $37.00 - paper covered) As this review is written, war in the Middle East continues - efforts to root out members of the al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Isrelis against ...
Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation
Jan 01, 2003; ... Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation by Diane E. Davis and Anthony W. Pereira, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (pp. 419 / $65.00 (cloth) This book's editors and contributors deserve high praise for producing what is all too rare in ...
Political Sociology for the 21st Century
Jan 01, 2003; ... Political Sociology for the 21st Century by Betty A. Dobratz, Lisa K. Waldner, and Timothy Buzzell, Editors. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2003. (pp. 342 / $90.00 (cloth) Questions of central importance to political sociology are as old as societies themselves. Where elites and masses have ...
BEYOND COMMEMORATION: THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY
Jan 01, 2003; ... This special issue of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology is devoted to presenting a series of studies on the politics of collective memory. In this brief introduction, I outline the main issues that the current special collection of articles is attempting to explore. Next, I briefly ...
Information Warfare and Security
Jan 01, 2003; ... Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy E. Denning. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999. The book is an introduction to information warfare. It is not on operations that exploit information media to win some objective over the enemy. It covers a wide range of issues ...
HOLOCAUST HEROICS: GHETTO FIGHTERS AND PARTISANS IN ISRAELI SOCIETY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY1
Jan 01, 2003; ... Ghetto revolts and other armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are among the formative elements of Israeli Holocaust memory and Israeli national identity. This essay illustrates how Holocaust Ex-fighters have worked to make the story of armed Jewish resistance a part of Israel's national ...
Greece and the New Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities
Jan 01, 2003; ... Greece and the New Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities Edited by Van Coufoudakis, Harry J. Psomiades, & Andre Gerolymatos. New York: Pella Publishing Co., Inc., 1999. The editors and the various contributors of the reader provide analyses of the new challenges and prospects for ...
Security and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Jan 01, 2003; ... Security and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean edited by Andreas Theophanous and Van Coufoudakis. Nicosia, Cyprus: Research and Development Center, 1997. (Intercollege Paper, pp. 228) This is an edited book of articles presented in a conference on security and cooperation in the ...
Ptyhes tou Emphyliou Polemou: 1946-1949 (Glances of the Civil War in Greece: 1946 - 1949)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Ptyhes tou Emphyliou Polemou: 1946-1949 (Glances of the Civil War in Greece: 1946 - 1949) by Kleomenis Koutsoukis and Ioannis Sakkas. Athens, Greece: Greek Center of Political Research of Panteion University, Athens, Greece, 2000. This is a well-crafted and researched book on the ...
Leaders and Leadership: An Appraisal of Theory and Research
Jan 01, 2003; ... Leaders and Leadership: An Appraisal of Theory and Research by Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips. Westport, CT: Praeger. This is a concise and highly readable book on an important topic of leaders and leadership by a distinguished research professor Mostafa Rejai in political science and an ...
Sharing the Wealth: My Story
Jan 01, 2003; ... Sharing the Wealth: My Story, by Alex Spanos. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2002. This is a book as much about Alex Spanos' life story and his family as it is a living history of Greek American experience. Sharing the Wealth: My Story is an extraordinary book of an-illustrious ...
Path to Collective Madness: A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology
Jan 01, 2003; ... Path to Collective Madness: A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology by Dipak K. Gupta. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. This is a social psychological about social order and political pathology or what the author calls Path to Collective Madness. He argues that mass suicide, ...
Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
Jan 01, 2003; ... Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America by Manuel Angel Centeno. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. (pp. 329 / $45.00 (cloth) / $23.95 (paper). Blood and Debt examines of an old theme in international relations: the links between war and state ...
WAR COMMEMORATION AND THE FORMATION OF ISRAELI NATIONAL IDENTITY
Jan 01, 2003; ... One of the main components of national identity is the memory of courageous deeds and heroic sacrifices of the soldiers of a nation. The cult of fallen soldiers thus often becomes a key activity through which citizens can identify with the abstract entity of the fatherland. This is especially ...
Century of War
Jan 01, 2003; ... Century of War by Gabriel Kolko. New York: The New Press, 1994. This is an important book on an important topic. Professor Kolko focuses on World War I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and shows how the world leaders and generals misunderstood and miscalculated the conflicts ...
The Europeanization of Greece: Interest Politics and the Crises of Integration
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Europeanization of Greece: Interest Politics and the Crises of Integration, 1997 by Kostas A. Lavdas. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1997. (pp. 337 - Cloth $69.95) This is a book about political and institutional change in modern Greece. It shows how the Greek State played a ...
Out in Force: Sexual Orientation and the Military
Jan 01, 2003; ... Out in Force: Sexual Orientation and the Military edited by Gregory M. Herek, Jared B. Jobe, and Ralph M. Carney. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. The reader deals with a controversial issue of sexual orientation in the military. In, 1993 this question became the focus of ...
SYMBOLIC URBAN SPACES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LOCAL COLLECTIVE MEMORY: A COMPARISON OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGOYA, JAPAN
Jan 01, 2003; ... Drawing from theoretical and empirically based literature, as well as the author's own field research, this article compares the relationship between symbolic urban spaces and collective memory in the cities of Nagoya and Hiroshima, Japan. Focusing on each city's historic castle, as well as ...
The Macedonian Question: Culture, Historiography, Politics
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Macedonian Question: Culture, Historiography, Politics edited by Victor Roudometof. East European Monographs: Boulder, CO., and distributed by Columbia University Press New York, 2000. This is an edited book on an important question both historically and in more contemporary sense ....
Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
Jan 01, 2003; ... Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany_by Richard Taylor. London and New York: I. B.Tauris, Publishers, 1998. This is a book on the meaning and the nature of film propaganda policies of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. The author argues that the film played a central role as a ...
Elites Crises and the Origins of Regimes
Jan 01, 2003; ... Elites Crises and the Origins of Regimes edited by Mattei Dogan and John Higley. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998. The authors state that "this book grew out of the work of the Research Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science ...
Ordered to Die. A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War
Jan 01, 2003; ... Ordered to Die. A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War. Edward J. Erickson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. (265pp.- $67.95) Ottoman Turkey's significance in the overall picture of World War I and its outcome is underscored by three landmark events associated with that ...
The Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence, by Michael S. Drake, London: Frank Cass, 2002. (pp. 335 / $62.50) This book is not about what military power is or how it has changed over time, but "how it has been spoken of and known throughout a ...
The European Union: A Political Sociology
Jan 01, 2003; ... The European Union: A Political Sociology by Chris Rumford. Maiden: Blackwell, 2002. (pp. 312 / $69.95 (cloth) / $34.95 (paper) The self-conscious aim of this book is to write an interpretation of European integration from a political sociology perspective, which, as the book quite ...
The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age by Gerard Chaliand, editor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.. This is a massive book of 1072 pages, which covers over 4000 years history. It covers 12 regions or countries of the world - history including - ...
THE RUSH TO MEMORY AND THE RHETORIC OF WAR1
Jan 01, 2003; ... In the disorder and confusion that surrounded the events of September 11, it was striking how soon and how widely practices of memory and memorialisation were invoked. Despite the general bewilderment and uncertainty that prevailed at the time, it seemed, as Marita Sturken writes, "as if people ...
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
Jan 01, 2003; ... Croatia: A Nation Forged in War by Marcus Tanner. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1997. This is a book written by another Balkan correspondent of the London Independent (from 1988 to 1994). Tanner argues that the Croatian nation state was forged from the disintegration of ...
Modern Greece: A Civilization on the Periphery
Jan 01, 2003; ... Modern Greece: A Civilization on the Periphery by Keith R. Legg and John N. Roberts. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. This is a critical book on Modern Greece. Unlike Legg's previous book on Politics in Modern Greece (1969) that was published more than 30 years ago, the present volume is ...
Why Americans Still Don't Vote and Why Politicians Want It That Way
Jan 01, 2003; ... Why Americans Still Don't Vote and Why Politicians Want It That Way by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. This book is a revised and updated edition. It was first published in 1988 by two distinguished sociologists who actively worked to reform voter ...
The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933 by William Brustein, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Using a huge collection of pre-1933 Nazi Party membership from the official files at the Berlin Document Center. The author argues that Nazi ...
Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa
Jan 01, 2003; ... Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa by Dominic Thomas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. (pp. 270) In Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa, Dominic Thomas addresses the issue of nation-building through the works of ...
The Politics of Collective Violence
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Politics of Collective Violence by Charles Tilly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (pp. 276 / $65 (cloth) / $23 (paper) Charles Tilly has undertaken to write a "top-down" treatment of collective violence. Reversing his earlier doubts on the utility of overarching theories ...
A World At Arms: A Global His of World War II
Jan 01, 2003; ... A World At Arms: A Global His of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg. London: Cambridge University Press, 1994. This is a truly global account of World War II that encompasses six continents. A World At Arms is a reasonable account of the Second World War and its effects on the world. It ...
The legacy of State Socialism and the Future of Transformation
Jan 01, 2003; ... The legacy of State Socialism and the Future of Transformation by David Lane, editor. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. (pp. 247 / $76.00 (cloth) / $28.95 (paper) If you are looking for a resource to guide you through economic and social transformations in the post-Soviet years, ...