Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal articles from September 1996

Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal archives from September 1996

Race and gender in the U.S. military.
September 22, 1996... Periodically, the demographic and social composition of the United States armed forces becomes a national issue. At times the issue is over access to military service by some group, such as the recent controversy over opening military service...

Gender integration in armed forces: recent policy developments in the United Kingdom.
September 22, 1996... The Role of Women in Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective There is great variation among nations, even among the sixteen nations of NATO, in the extent to which women serve in the armed forces. In some countries women are excluded, or have...

The use of force: Israeli public opinion on military options.
September 22, 1996... Studies of public opinion about foreign policy and national security address a large number of questions: Is public opinion rational? Are trends in public opinion stable over time and, if not, what is the scope of change? What is the relation...

Determinants of soldier support for Operation Uphold Democracy.
September 22, 1996... In the past five years the United States has participated in an increasing number of peacekeeping, nation building, and disaster relief assistance operations. Soldiers in the United States military have found themselves involved in fighting...

The coup d'etat in the Gambia, 1994: the end of the first republic.
September 22, 1996... The bloodless coup d'etat of 22 July 1994 that toppled the government of Sir Dawada Jawara is remarkable for two important reasons. First, it brought to an abrupt end the longest continuously surviving multiparty democracy in Africa, and...

Soldiers, Society, and National Security.
September 22, 1996... In 1994, Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) smugly remarked that if President Bill Clinton were to visit Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, he, Clinton, might be well advised to keep an eye out over his shoulder. The Senator's clumsy attempt to impugn the...

Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics and the Postwar Search for Autonomy.
September 22, 1996... Michael J. Green has authored an exquisitely focused study on the origin and evolution of Japan's defense industry in a thorough and systematic way. He is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and holds research positions at the Institute for...

The United States, Japan, and the Future of Nuclear Weapons.
September 22, 1996... The authors of this book recommend that a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty with an ironclad reduction timetable for reducing nuclear weapons worldwide be initiated by a major 5-power forum. This report was compiled by a group of 26 leading...

The Coup: Tactics in the Seizure of Power.
September 22, 1996... Bruce Farcau's The Coup: Tactics in the Seizure of Power is a curious book on the mechanics of plotting and carrying out a coup. What makes it peculiar is that the reader is left wondering why the book either was not titled "The Coup in Latin...

Geheime Staatspolizei: Uber das Toten und die Tendenzen der Entzivilisierung.
September 22, 1996... One of the still cryptic and menacing aspects of Germany's history in the 20th century is the cool bureaucratic manner that characterized the organization of the so-called final solution and other attempts to murder entire segments of European...

Soldiers, Civilians, and Democracy: Post-Franco Spain in Comparative Perspective.
September 22, 1996... Cross-cultural comparisons of the transitions to democracy in East Central Europe and Latin America have become popular in the past decade, with some scholars noting that such comparisons are preposterous and others noting that they would be...

Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia.
September 22, 1996... Losing Mogadishu is a troubling, potentially troublesome book. It is laden with gross inaccuracies, yet at the same time I cannot disagree with journalist Stevenson's overall view of Operation Restore Hope. Essentially he concludes that, in...

Strategic Views from the Second Tier: The Nuclear Weapons Policies of France, Britain, and China.
September 22, 1996... Nuclear weapons once played a critical role in defining international politics in the Cold War era. The end of the Cold War does not suggest that international politics will henceforth be freed from the influence of nuclear weapons, but it does...

International Migration and Security.
September 22, 1996... Barely a week passes without a news story on the plight of refugees or people who have migrated from one country to another. It is almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of who is moving where and why they are moving, much...

Life, Death and Aid: the Medecins Sans Frontieres Report on World Crisis Intervention.
September 22, 1996... Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) describes itself as "the world's largest independent organization for emergency medical aid." Frequently referred to by its English translation, "Doctors Without Borders," the organization was "created in 1971 by...