Post-Military Society

Militarism, Demilitarization and War at the End of the Twentieth Century

Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991. 

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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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