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The soldier and the changing state
The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be consolidated. Barany also demonstrates that building democratic armies is the quintessential task of newly democratizing regimes. But how do democratic armies come about? What conditions encourage or impede democratic civil-military relations? And how can the state ensure the allegiance of its soldiers?
Barany examines the experiences of developing countries and the armed forces in the context of major political change in six specific settings: in the wake of war and civil war, after military and communist regimes, and following colonialism and unification/apartheid. He evaluates the army-building and democratization experiences of twenty-seven countries and explains which predemocratic settings are most conducive to creating a military that will support democracy. Highlighting important factors and suggesting which reforms can be expected to work and fail in different environments, he offers practical policy recommendations to state-builders and democratizers.
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Global Politics and Germany's Destiny “from an East Asian Perspective”: Alfred von Tirpitz and the Making of Wilhelmine Navalism
In his memoirs, published in 1919, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the former Secretary of the Navy and architect of the Wilhelmine battle fleet, claimed that it had been his great “fortune” in 1896 to receive a naval command abroad. Deployed to East Asia, he had been able to “take yet another look at the overseas interests of Germandom” right before the “takeover of the Imperial Naval Office and the inception of the naval buildup.” Appointed in late March 1896, Tirpitz commanded the East Asian Cruiser Division until he was summoned back to Berlin twelve months later, on March 31, 1897. He had returned home “with the impression that England sought to block as much as possible our future development,” as he characterized the main lesson he claimed to have learned during the months he spent away from Germany.
Journal Article
\Huns\ and Other \Barbarians\: A Movie Ban and the Dilemmas of 1920s German Propaganda against French Colonial Troops
In the early 1920s, Germany orchestrated an international propaganda campaign against colonial French troops stationed in the Rhineland that used the racist epithet \"black horror on the Rhine\" and focused on claims of widespread sexual violence against innocent Rhenish maidens by African French soldiers, in order to discredit the Versailles Treaty. I argue that black horror propaganda fused elements of Allied propaganda—especially images of the barbaric \"Hun\"—with Germany's own wartime propaganda against colonial Allied troops. I use the significant film against colonial soldiers, Die schwarze Schmach (The Black Shame, 1921), to highlight the tensions and pitfalls of the German propagandistic strategy. As the debates over the film illustrate, black horror propaganda often had the effect of reminding audiences of German war crimes rather than diverting attention away from them. The ultimate ban of Die schwarze Schmach demonstrates the complex political nature of the 1920s backlash against atrocity propaganda.
Journal Article
The March to the Danube
On the night of April 9, 1704, John Churchill, the duke of Marlborough, crossed the English Channel to open the epic campaign that would preserve English national independence, make England’s empire British, secure the Protestant succession to the imperial throne, and rescue both European and American liberty from the aggression of Louis XIV. The campaign would, so its genius hoped, make a deathless reputation for the name “Marlborough” in a world that had forgotten “the detested names of Whigg and Torry.” For once, the Channel crossing itself had that Augustan calmness which poets and praetorians alike now ascribed to the
Book Chapter
Blenheim
As the British burned Bavaria, the French army under Tallard had marched down the Danube from its headwaters in the Black Forest. They reached the vicinity of Ulm by July 29, 1704. There the French could be joined by the elector of Bavaria and all the troops he dared withdraw from his garrisons. Marlborough admitted that his eastward advance (across the Lech into Bavaria and down the right bank of the Danube through Neuburg and Rain onto the plain of Ingolstadt) had left the roads to the west open, enabling Max Emmanuel to unite his forces with the French. Marlborough
Book Chapter
The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire
Sumida reviews The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire by Jan Ruger and edited by Jay Winter.
Book Review