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Author |
: Dirk Bönker |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801464355 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801464358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Militarism in a Global Age by : Dirk Bönker
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk Bonker explores the far-reaching ambitions of naval officers before World War I as they advanced navalism, a particular brand of modern militarism that stressed the paramount importance of sea power as a historical determinant. Aspiring to make their own countries into self-reliant world powers in an age of global empire and commerce, officers viewed the causes of the industrial nation, global influence, elite rule, and naval power as inseparable. Characterized by both transnational exchanges and national competition, the new maritime militarism was technocratic in its impulses; its makers cast themselves as members of a professional elite that served the nation with its expert knowledge of maritime and global affairs. American and German navalist projects differed less in their principal features than in their eventual trajectories. Over time, the pursuits of these projects channeled the two naval elites in different directions as they developed contrasting outlooks on their bids for world power and maritime force. Combining comparative history with transnational and global history, Militarism in a Global Age challenges traditional, exceptionalist assumptions about militarism and national identity in Germany and the United States in its exploration of empire and geopolitics, warfare and military-operational imaginations, state formation and national governance, and expertise and professionalism.
Author |
: Dirk Bönker |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801463884 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801463882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Militarism in a Global Age by : Dirk Bönker
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk Bonker explores the far-reaching ambitions of naval officers before World War I as they advanced navalism, a particular brand of modern militarism that stressed the paramount importance of sea power as a historical determinant. Aspiring to make their own countries into self-reliant world powers in an age of global empire and commerce, officers viewed the causes of the industrial nation, global influence, elite rule, and naval power as inseparable. Characterized by both transnational exchanges and national competition, the new maritime militarism was technocratic in its impulses; its makers cast themselves as members of a professional elite that served the nation with its expert knowledge of maritime and global affairs. American and German navalist projects differed less in their principal features than in their eventual trajectories. Over time, the pursuits of these projects channeled the two naval elites in different directions as they developed contrasting outlooks on their bids for world power and maritime force. Combining comparative history with transnational and global history, Militarism in a Global Age challenges traditional, exceptionalist assumptions about militarism and national identity in Germany and the United States in its exploration of empire and geopolitics, warfare and military-operational imaginations, state formation and national governance, and expertise and professionalism.
Author |
: Adi Kuntsman |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804785678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804785679 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Militarism by : Adi Kuntsman
Israel's occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world's most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens. Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global context—both the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupation's impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
Author |
: A. J. Bacevich |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231124836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023112483X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Over Kosovo by : A. J. Bacevich
This is a concise history of the war for Kosovo. It offers a new lens through which to view U.S. national security in the age of globalization.
Author |
: Lisa M. Mundey |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2012-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786489848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786489847 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Militarism and Anti-Militarism in Popular Media, 1945-1970 by : Lisa M. Mundey
Scholars have characterized the early decades of the Cold War as an era of rising militarism in the United States but most Americans continued to identify themselves as fundamentally anti-militaristic. To them, "militaristic" defined the authoritarian regimes of Germany and Japan that the nation had defeated in World War II--aggressive, power-hungry countries in which the military possessed power outside civilian authority. Much of the popular culture in the decades following World War II reflected and reinforced a more pacifist perception of America. This study explores military images in television, film, and comic books from 1945 to 1970 to understand how popular culture made it possible for a public to embrace more militaristic national security policies yet continue to perceive themselves as deeply anti-militaristic.
Author |
: Mark Philip Bradley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2021-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1625345690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781625345691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making the Forever War by : Mark Philip Bradley
The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism? Making the Forever War brings Young's articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent "forever" wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich.
Author |
: Andrew J. Bacevich |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2005-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199741168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199741166 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New American Militarism by : Andrew J. Bacevich
In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology--of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This mindset, the author warns, invites endless war and the ever-deepening militarization of U.S. policy. It promises not to perfect but to pervert American ideals and to accelerate the hollowing out of American democracy. As it alienates others, it will leave the United States increasingly isolated. It will end in bankruptcy, moral as well as economic, and in abject failure. With The New American Militarism, which has been updated with a new Afterword, Bacevich examines the origins and implications of this misguided enterprise. He shows how American militarism emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War. Various groups in American society--soldiers, politicians on the make, intellectuals, strategists, Christian evangelicals, even purveyors of pop culture--came to see the revival of military power and the celebration of military values as the antidote to all the ills besetting the country as a consequence of Vietnam and the 1960s. The upshot, acutely evident in the aftermath of 9/11, has been a revival of vast ambitions and certainty, this time married to a pronounced affinity for the sword. Bacevich urges us to restore a sense of realism and a sense of proportion to U.S. policy. He proposes, in short, to bring American purposes and American methods--especially with regard to the role of the military--back into harmony with the nation's founding ideals.
Author |
: Roberto J. González |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2019-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478007135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478007133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Militarization by : Roberto J. González
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
Author |
: Kamala Visweswaran |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2013-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812244878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812244877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Occupations by : Kamala Visweswaran
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.
Author |
: Christopher J. Coyne |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2018-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781503605282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1503605280 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tyranny Comes Home by : Christopher J. Coyne
Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged citizens to think again. Overseas, our government takes actions in the name of defense that would not be permissible within national borders. Emboldened by the relative weakness of governance abroad, the U.S. government is able to experiment with a broader range of social controls. Under certain conditions, these policies, tactics, and technologies are then re-imported to America, changing the national landscape and increasing the extent to which we live in a police state. Coyne and Hall examine this pattern—which they dub "the boomerang effect"—considering a variety of rich cases that include the rise of state surveillance, the militarization of domestic law enforcement, the expanding use of drones, and torture in U.S. prisons. Synthesizing research and applying an economic lens, they develop a generalizable theory to predict and explain a startling trend. Tyranny Comes Home unveils a new aspect of the symbiotic relationship between foreign interventions and domestic politics. It gives us alarming insight into incidents like the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Snowden case—which tell a common story about contemporary foreign policy and its impact on our civil liberties.