books about: militarism     books:     Militarism      The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Belknap Press) Samuel P. Huntington Belknap Press, 2008 The best book ever written on civil-military relations At the time of its original publication in 1957, Samuel Huntington's The Soldier and the State reflected a new age in American history--the Cold War era. Huntington, a young Harvard professor of government, focused on policy problems concerning civilian direction of ...             Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism AK Press, 2004 If you know someone who's thinking of enlisting . . . Put this one under the Christmas tree. A popular classic, now in a new reprint, strictly based on popular demand - no commercial hype whatsoever - gives an easily accessed history of the military industial complex, the ruling junta in today's America - from its very ...             Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (Globalization) Cynthia Enloe Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007 Excellent Cynthia Enloe is one of the best feminist international relations scholars in North America. Once again she has written a much needed timely volume. Enloe's writing is engaging and never filled with too much academese, so that the lay audience and academics alike can ...             The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America Robert Scheer Twelve, 2008 Down With The Military-Industrial Complex ! In a scathing examination of the bloated defense contracting industry, journalist Scheer exposes how the military-industrial complex manufactures and acquires advanced weaponry that has nothing to do with America's defense needs. Not only does the bloated "defense" ...             Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) Chalmers Johnson Metropolitan Books, 2007 A Great American Patriot Chalmers Johnson is one of America's greatest heroes for writing INFORMATIVE books that display his critical thinking. We must know what is going on with our American country and we must understand that the mainstream media is part of the empire umbrella. (For example, ...             The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies) David Harvey Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Right on the money, though tough reading. In the last thirty years or so, there has been a growing body of thought and literature in the world that America is the next Empire, maybe not in the Roman mold, but surely as powerful as the old English empire. Contributions to this train of thought have come from ...             House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power James Carroll Mariner Books, 2007 A FORMALLY TRAINED ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN IN THIS SCHOLARLY ACADEMIC STUDY REVEALS THE DEPTHS OF EVIL AND SIN IN THE PENTAGON In this book Carroll, winner of National Book Awards, and working for a number of academic institutions with their full support and assistance, records a complete history of the Pentagon from its birth until publication in 2006. Carroll fully documents this history ...             The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War Andrew J. Bacevich Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 In depth understanding of U.S. culture, history & current fiasco Judging by his track record, Bacevich might appear as a true-blue conservative, a West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and soldier for 23 years. He currently teaches at Boston University and has contributed to conservative magazines such as the Weekly Standard and the ...             On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Consequences of American Conquest and Carnage Ward Churchill AK Press, 2003 A must read I'll make an admission up front: until the recent brouhaha regarding an out-of-context quote by Professor Churchill, I had never even heard of the guy. That's not uncommon, as most of us in the academic world toil in relative obscurity and rarely know much about what ...             The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project) Chalmers Johnson Holt Paperbacks, 2005 The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic While Blowback, primarily examined the covert intervention, American style pre and during the Cold War, and its varied unintended consequences (abroad as well as at home), The Sorrows of Empire is focused on the years after fall of the Berlin Wall and at a time that ...             Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea (Politics, History, and Culture) Seungsook Moon Duke University Press, 2005 This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the pursuit of modernity in South Korea involved the ...             The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism Frances Fox Piven New Press, 2006 A sharp indictment of the neoconservative agenda "The War at Home" by Frances Fox Piven is a sharp indictment of the Bush administration's neoconservative agenda. Cloaked in the righteousness of war, Ms. Piven argues that extremist elements within the Republican Party skilfully exploited the public's fears in order ...             Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power James Petras Clarity Press, 2008 ##Following in the train of two highly successful books addressing the influence of Israel on US Middle East policy and the onerous effects of support for Israeli interests that have resulted, Petras pursues this theme to illustrate how the conjunction of Israeli domestc influence in the US, spurring and combined with US militarism, has now led to ...             Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis (Critical Security Studies) Sandra Whitworth Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007 Case studies of how women change and are changed by millitary Examining selected incidents throughout world history, Sandra Whitworth (Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, York University) then makes her case that women need to assume a more central role throughout the peacekeeping mission process. ...             The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (Blowback Trilogy) Chalmers Johnson Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007 After the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as "reluctant sheriff," and, in the wake of 9/11, as a "New Rome." In this important best-seller, Chalmers Johnson explores the new militarism that is transforming America and compelling its people to pick up the burden of empire. ...          products you might be interested in search for books citizenship, civil-military, consequences, environmental, globalization, peacekeeping      toavi.com    web we recommend The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic randomly chosen DVD: A Goofy Movie (Disney Gold Classic Collection)