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Fighting for Rights
2010,2006,2011
Overview
Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as
a \"school for the nation.\" Debates over who serves continue to
arouse passion today because the military's participation policies
are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the
politics of identity and citizenship. Yet how and when do these
policies transform patterns of citizenship? Military service,
Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering
minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights. Minority
groups have at times effectively contrasted their people's
battlefield sacrifices to the reality of inequity, compelling state
leaders to concede to their claims. At the same time, military
service can shape when, for what, and how minorities have engaged
in political activism in the quest for meaningful citizenship.
Employing a range of rich primary materials, Krebs shows how the
military's participation policies shaped Arab citizens' struggles
for first-class citizenship in Israel from independence to the
mid-1980s and African Americans' quest for civil rights, from World
War I to the Korean War. Fighting for Rights helps us make sense of
contemporary debates over gays in the military and over the virtues
and dangers of liberal and communitarian visions for society. It
suggests that rhetoric is more than just a weapon of the weak, that
it is essential to political exchange, and that politics rests on a
dual foundation of rationality and culture.
Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as
a \"school for the nation.\" Debates over who serves continue to
arouse passion today because the military's participation policies
are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the
politics of identity and citizenship. Yet how and when do these
policies transform patterns of citizenship? Military service,
Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering
minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights. Minority
groups have at times effectively contrasted their people's
battlefield sacrifices to the reality of inequity, compelling state
leaders to concede to their claims. At the same time, military
service can shape when, for what, and how minorities have engaged
in political activism in the quest for meaningful citizenship.
Employing a range of rich primary materials, Krebs shows how the
military's participation policies shaped Arab citizens' struggles
for first-class citizenship in Israel from independence to the
mid-1980s and African Americans' quest for civil rights, from World
War I to the Korean War. Fighting for Rights helps us make
sense of contemporary debates over gays in the military and over
the virtues and dangers of liberal and communitarian visions for
society. It suggests that rhetoric is more than just a weapon of
the weak, that it is essential to political exchange, and that
politics rests on a dual foundation of rationality and culture.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Citizenship -- United States
/ Civil-military relations -- Israel
/ Civil-military relations -- United States
/ History
/ Israel
/ Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʹel
/ Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʾel -- Minorities
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
/ Rights
/ Sociology, Military -- Israel
/ Sociology, Military -- United States
/ U.S.A
ISBN
9780801444654, 0801444659, 9780801459832, 0801459834
