Martin Shaw Post-Military
Society Militarism,
Demilitarization and War at the End of the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge:
Polity Press, 1991. Out of print: to be partially republished on
this site in 2001
A small number of paperback copies are
available from Sussex University Bookshop at £6, or by mail order from me
Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements
1 Militarism and
Militarization
- disciplinary approaches
- definitions
- war and industrial
society
- total war and classical
militarism
- theory and the end of
the Cold War
2 Contexts of Military Power
- the state system
- international relations
and world economy
- the 'world military
order'
- politics of military
power
- military power as a
means of war
3 Post-Military Society
- variants of the 'militarization' thesis
- sociological
alternatives
- conscription in Europe
- limits of Third World
militarism
4 Militarism in a
Post-Military Society
- comparative issues in
Western societies
- militarism and national
myths
- nostalgia militarism and
media wars
- the military in a
post-military society
- post-militarism in
Europe
5 Post-Military Citizenship
- demilitarization in
Europe
- conscription and
citizenship
- the nation-state and
post-military society
- a new world order?
- the two faces of
post-military society
6 Postscript: The Gulf War
and Post-Military Society
- violence and
post-military society
- post-military societies
at war
- war and militarism after
the Gulf
Index
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