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In an increasingly complex post-Cold War world system, scholars interested in conflict and conflict resolution must consider a wider collection of variables in drawing conclusions about important security issues. This compendium features 13 original essays that explore the importance of culture and identity with respect to civil-military relations, national security, and nation building. Contributors reflect upon both theoretical and substantive issues and draw from case studies representing different regions of the world.
The work begins with two articles offering theoretical and cross-cultural treatment of conflict and conflict resolution. Next, authors include ten case studies that explore the re-emergence of identity as a focal ingredient in determining national security doctrine. Case studies range from China to Southern Europe to Liberia to Brazil. A third section concentrates on the role of nationalism.
List of contents
Preface by Amir Bar-or
Introduction by Constantine P. Danopoulos and Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi
Blowing Hot and Cold: A Theory of Regional War and Peace by Benjamin Miller
The Nation State, Nationalism, and Civil-Military Relations Theory by Glen Segell
Russia's Search for Identity, Nationalism, and National Security by Sergei Baburkin
Military-Civilian Integration in China: Legacy and Policy by Yitzhak Shichor
National Identity, National Security, and Amazônia: Military Perceptions and Attitudes in Contemporary Brazil by João R. Martins Filho and Daniel Zirker
Nigeria by Pita Agbese
Civil-Military Relations in the Third Yugoslavia: In a Broken Mirror by Biljana Vankovska
Questioning the Role of Army in Nation-Building: The Development of Critical Discourse on Civil-Military Relations in Israel by Alek D. Epstein and Michael Urilsky
Civil-Military Relations, Political Islam, and Security: The Turkish Case by Metin Heper and Aylin Güney
The Macedonian Question: From Conflict to Cooperation? by Victor Roudometof
Partition Revisited: The International Dimension and the Case of Cyprus by Philippos K. Savvides
The Search for a National Symbol in a Military Regime: The Case of Liberia by Yukutiel Gershoni
About the author
Constantin P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Amir Bar'or
