Journal of Political and Military Sociology back issues from July 2004:
THE U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION DECISION-MAKING PROCESS: WHO PARTICIPATES, AND HOW?
Jul 01, 2004; ... This article seeks to explain both who participates in military intervention decisions and how they participate. The article argues that participation is strongly conditioned by the primary characteristics of the intervention, along with the organization and institutions of U.S. government ...
THE PROCESS OF RECOGNITION OF THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF THE FORMER SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Jul 01, 2004; ... The break-up of the Soviet Union, in the beginning of the 1990s influenced developments in the Balkan Peninsula, which acquired the form of an intense secessionist wave in the federal republics that made up the Yugoslav federation. The EC, despite its low degree of political integration, tried ...
MICROFINANCE AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Jul 01, 2004; ... Microfinance is emerging as an integral part of the new development paradigm, described by the phrase "participation and development. "Although the idea has become quite popular among donor agencies, development practitioners, and academicians, theoretical premises on which this idea is founded ...
APPROACHES TO NATION BUILDING IN POST-COLONIAL NIGERIA
Jul 01, 2004; ... Over the past several decades, Nigerians have sought to build a stable multiethnic nation. However, nation building has been complicated by Nigeria 's tremendous ethnic diversity and uneven distribution of resources. Taking into account the mandate, institutional arrangements, and conduct of ...
MORAL FITNESS FOR PEACE OPERATIONS
Jul 01, 2004; ... "Moral Fitness" refers to an attitude of alertness and responsibility on a moral level. In light of the fall of Srebrenica, we show that moral fitness is an important attitude in military-operations-other-than-war to deal with moral dilemmas. These operations and the dilemmas that follow differ ...
FARM CONCENTRATION, POLITICAL-ECONOMIC PROCESS, AND STRATIFICATION: THE CASE OF THE NORTH CENTRAL U.S.1
Jul 01, 2004; ... Stratification research is limited in its discussion of resource concentration within labor markets, the consequences for local poverty and inequality, and the extent to which political-economic processes play a mediating role. These issues are of considerable importance to understanding the ...
SERIOUS TIMES, SERIOUS VOTERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE DRAFT AND VOTING BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG MEN
Jul 01, 2004; ... Researchers often point to the concept of "political connectivity " as an explanation for voting behavior in the American electorate. Simply put, the idea is the more people have, the more they have to lose, and, therefore, the more likely they are to vote. This paper will expand this ...
RECKLESS REPRESENTATION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF CITIZEN EXPECTATIONS AND POLITICAL POWER1
Jul 01, 2004; ... This paper investigates how citizens perceive and think about political power when confronted with a short-lived governmental "crisis of effectiveness." Using data generated by a mail survey of Prince George's County, Maryland, residents in the immediate aftermath of the federal government ...
Inequality, Power, and Development: Issues in Political Sociology
Jul 01, 2004; ... Inequality, Power, and Development: Issues in Political Sociology (2nd ed.) by Jerry Kloby. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. (pp. 315 / S70 [cloth]) Few sociology texts extensively review global issues of inequality even as economic inequality grows prolifically and causes ...
How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
Jul 01, 2004; ... How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam by Gil Merom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (pp. 295 / $65.00 [cloth] / $23 [paper]) The ongoing debate about democracy, war, and ...
Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution
Jul 01, 2004; ... Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution (2nd ed.) by Louis Kriesberg. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. (pp. 429 / $72 [cloth] / $27.95 [paper]) Louis Kriesberg, one of the pioneers of contemporary conflict studies, has done us a great service with an updated ...
The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas by Emily O. Goldman and Leslie C. Eliason (eds.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. (415 pp. / $75 [cloth]) There is now a substantial literature on military innovation: on how and in what circumstances military organizations are ...
Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
Jul 01, 2004; ... Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations by Peter D. Feaver. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. (pp. 381 / $49.95 [cloth]) Since its publication in 1957, Samuel P. Huntington's The Soldier and the State has been the landmark work on the study of ...
Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa
Jul 01, 2004; ... Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa, by Dominic Thomas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. (270 pp.) In Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa, Dominic Thomas addresses the issue of nation-building through the works and ...