Security Disarmed

Security Disarmed
Author: Barbara Sutton
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813543606

In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization.

Empires of Intelligence

Empires of Intelligence
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520251172

'Empires of Intelligence' argues that colonial control in British and French empires depended on an elabroate security apparatus. Thomas shows the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization.

Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness

Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness
Author: Combat Studies Institute Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781079221022

Conducting the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and projecting United States (US) influence worldwide has meant an increasing number of US diplomats and military forces are assigned to locations around the world, some of which have not previously had a significant US presence. In the current security environment, understanding foreign cultures and societies has become a national priority. Cultural understanding is necessary both to defeat adversaries and to work successfully with allies.

Everyday Occupations

Everyday Occupations
Author: Kamala Visweswaran
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812244877

Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination.

Militarization and War

Militarization and War
Author: J. Schofield
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137077190

This book looks at the influence of military regimes in seven cases: Pakistan in 1965, India in 1971, Israel in 1956 and 1967, Egypt in 1973, Iran in 1969 and Iraq in 1980. The author contends that countries with military governments are warlike not because they glorify war, but rather because they are poorly equipped to manage diplomacy.

Businessmen in Arms

Businessmen in Arms
Author: Elke Grawert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442254564

The Arab Uprisings have brought renewed attention to the role of the military in the MENA region, where they are either the backbone of regime power or a crucial part of patronage networks in political systems. This collection of essays from international experts examines the economic interests of armed actors ranging from military businesses in Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, Sudan, and Yemen to retired military officers’ economic endeavors and the web of funding of non-state armed groups in Syria and Libya. Due to the combined power of business and arms, the military often manages to incorporate or quell competing groups and thus, to revert achievements of revolutionary movements.

Militarization

Militarization
Author: Roberto J. González
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478007133

Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture both in foreign relations and in the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the Reader probes militarism's ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the Reader offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people. In collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David Vine

Arming the State

Arming the State
Author: Erik J. Zürcher
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781860644047

Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In central Asia and the Middle East it has been ruthlessly imposed on agrarian and undeveloped societies, with little regard for individual interest, economic disruption, or intense local resistance. Providing a study of conscription, this work includes contributions from social and political historians on a subject traditionally covered by military historians. It focuses on Ottoman Turkey, Egypt (where some of the most extreme forms of conscription occurred), Iran, central Asia and the Balkans, and covers feudal militarization, unfree service and conscription of serfs, the press gang, military slavery, recruitment in the labour market, mercenaries, privateers, sales of Bedouin services, and resistance.