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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