Ethnicity And The Military In Asia

Author : DeWitt C. Ellinwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351318792

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Ethnicity and the Military in Asia by DeWitt C. Ellinwood Pdf

This volume examines ethnicity in relation to one major facet of Asian life—the military. Ethnicity, now being studied on a variety of scholarly and geographical fronts, is a fruitful topic for consideration in the study of the relationships between the Asian armed forces and their governments and societies. While Ethnicity and the Military of Asia profits from recent explorations of ethnicity, it also benefits from the current interest in a close scholarly examination of the relationship between armed forces, war, and society. Since the military institutions of so many Asian societies have played or are playing leading roles in their country's government, the military has a relationship, often ambiguous, to the development of the expression of nationhood—a central factor in the new states of Asia. This study shows that policies concerning the military have importance for intergroup relations by expressing policies on ethnicity and by modifying relations between ethnic groups. One factor that correlates with this is that policy concerning membership in the military has a relationship to the search for "modernization" and to social mobility.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428912960

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Opening Pandora's Box: Ethnicity and Central Asian Militaries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dianne Louise Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 1423555864

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Opening Pandora's Box by Dianne Louise Smith Pdf

The author discusses the impact of ethnicity on the armed forces of the Central Asian states. She summarizes the ethnic composition of the five new republics and examines the legacy of Soviet ethnic policy upon this area. The author considers ways in which different newly-independent states have created their military institutions and handled the issue of ethnicity within their armed forces. Finally, she examines the possible role the United States can play in assisting the armed forces of Central Asia to learn how to manage diversity and promote stability in this energy rich, but inherently unstable, region.

Author : DeWitt C. Ellinwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351318785

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Ethnicity and the Military in Asia by DeWitt C. Ellinwood Pdf

This volume examines ethnicity in relation to one major facet of Asian life—the military. Ethnicity, now being studied on a variety of scholarly and geographical fronts, is a fruitful topic for consideration in the study of the relationships between the Asian armed forces and their governments and societies. While Ethnicity and the Military of Asia profits from recent explorations of ethnicity, it also benefits from the current interest in a close scholarly examination of the relationship between armed forces, war, and society. Since the military institutions of so many Asian societies have played or are playing leading roles in their country's government, the military has a relationship, often ambiguous, to the development of the expression of nationhood—a central factor in the new states of Asia. This study shows that policies concerning the military have importance for intergroup relations by expressing policies on ethnicity and by modifying relations between ethnic groups. One factor that correlates with this is that policy concerning membership in the military has a relationship to the search for "modernization" and to social mobility.

Author : Colin Mackerras
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415258162

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Ethnicity in Asia by Colin Mackerras Pdf

A comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at core issues such as ethnic minorities and groups, population, language, culture and traditional religion.

Author : Dianne L. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1423555864

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Opening Pandora's Box by Dianne L. Smith Pdf

The author discusses the impact of ethnicity on the armed forces of the Central Asian states. She summarizes the ethnic composition of the five new republics and examines the legacy of Soviet ethnic policy upon this area. The author considers ways in which different newly-independent states have created their military institutions and handled the issue of ethnicity within their armed forces. Finally, she examines the possible role the United States can play in assisting the armed forces of Central Asia to learn how to manage diversity and promote stability in this energy rich, but inherently unstable, region.

Author : Kusumā Sanitwong Na ʻAyutthayā,Willard Scott Thompson
Publisher : éditions de l’éclat
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9812303405

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Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia by Kusumā Sanitwong Na ʻAyutthayā,Willard Scott Thompson Pdf

Potentially destabilizing ethnic conflicts continue to challenge nation-states worldwide: The countries of Southeast Asia are no exception. Globalization, population movements and historical and political fault-lines in a tremendously ethnically diverse region, coupled with continuing uneven access to economic development, have seen the resurgence of old conflicts or the flaring up of new ones. Along with violence and the loss of life and livelihood there are also longer-term cross-border impacts to consider in the form of refugees or displaced persons, illegal migrant labour, as well as drug and arms smuggling. Written by country experts, this volume examines ethnic configurations as well as conflict avoidance and resolution in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia is a resource for scholars, policy-makers, NGO personnel, analysts and others who wish to deepen their understanding of the region, or develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.

Author : N Ganesan,Kyaw Yin Hlaing
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812304346

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Myanmar by N Ganesan,Kyaw Yin Hlaing Pdf

Covers issues of historical influence and political considerations that have shaped the dominant thinking within the state and the military. Examines the three major ethnic groups in the country - Karen, Kachin, and Shan. Deals with how the various ethnic groups are trying to cope with decades of conflict and reconstruct their communities.

Author : Urmila Phadnis,Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761994394

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Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia by Urmila Phadnis,Rajat Ganguly Pdf

'This is probably the only work that deals with the entire spectrum of South Asian ethnicity and its dynamic role in regional politics. A decade and a half later after the first edition was published, the work has become even more relevant because ethnic divisions have become sharper all across the region. This updated second edition is thus welcome' - Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Contemporary South Asia The new, revised edition of Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia has been rewritten and updated by Rajat Ganguly following the untimely death of the original author Urmila Phadnis.

Author : Kunal Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000371611

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Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Conflict Across Asia by Kunal Mukherjee Pdf

This book looks at conflict zones in the Asia Pacific with a special focus on secessionist groups/movements in the Indian Northeast, Tibet, Chinese Xinjiang, the Burmese borderlands, Kashmir in South Asia, CHT in Bangladesh, South Thailand, and Aceh in Indonesia. These conflict zones are predominantly ethnic minority provinces, which by and large do not share a sense of one-ness with the country that they are currently a part of; most of these insurgencies have had strong linkages with separatist nationalist groups in the region. Methodologically, the author uses extensive fieldwork, interview data, and participant observation from these conflict zones to take a bottom-up approach, giving importance to the voices of ordinary people and/or the residents of these conflict zones whose voices have generally been ignored. Although the book looks at both the historical background and contemporary dimensions of these conflicts, the author focuses on exploring how the role of race, ethnicity and religion in these conflicts can be both direct and indirect. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conflict and security in contemporary Asia with a background in politics, history, IR, security studies, religion, and sociology.

Author : Kaushik Roy,Gavin Rand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584524

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Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia by Kaushik Roy,Gavin Rand Pdf

This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.

Author : Christopher P. Hanscom,Dennis Washburn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824852818

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The Affect of Difference by Christopher P. Hanscom,Dennis Washburn Pdf

The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made visible and present as a potential means of identification. By analyzing artifacts from diverse media including travelogues, records of speech, photographs, radio broadcasts, surgical techniques, tattoos, anthropometric postcards, fiction, the popular press, film and soundtracks—an archive that chronicles the quotidian experiences of the colonized—their essays shed light on the politics of inclusion and exclusion that underpinned Japanese empire. One way this volume sets itself apart is in its use of affect as a key analytical category. Colonial politics depended heavily on the sentiments and moods aroused by media representations of race, and authorities promoted strategies that included the colonized as imperial subjects while simultaneously excluding them on the basis of "natural" differences. Chapters demonstrate how this dynamic operated by showing the close attention of empire to intimate matters including language, dress, sexuality, family, and hygiene. The focus on affect elucidates the representational logic of both imperialist and racist discourses by providing a way to talk about inequalities that are not clear cut, to show gradations of power or shifts in definitions of normality that are otherwise difficult to discern, and to present a finely grained perspective on everyday life under racist empire. It also alerts us to the subtle, often unseen ways in which imperial or racist affects may operate beyond the reach of our methodologies. Taken together, the essays in this volume bring the case of Japanese empire into comparative proximity with other imperial situations and contribute to a deeper, more sophisticated understanding of the role that race has played in East Asian empire.

Author : Judith D. Toland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351294584

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Ethnicity and the State by Judith D. Toland Pdf

Modern states have evolved as complex political structures in which unitary forms of government maintain an uncertain equilibrium with ethnically plural societies. Historically, ruling elites have tried with little success to eradicate ethnicity through genocide, bury it under accusations of tribalism, discredit it with the mind-frame of modernization, or confine it to local rather than national political arenas. This broad-ranging volume examines the dynamics of ethnic manipulation and accommodation by dominant and subordinate groups in the state-building process. Ethnicity and the State reflects the widely varying political contexts and cultures in which reasons of state contend with unyielding ethnic allegiances. European, South American, Asian, and Middle Eastern examples reveal a consistent set of themes and attitudes. The authors find that while the state must realize its authority and stability through a strictly defined charter of rights and values, ethnic identity exercises its power more freely and flexibly. The sense of peoplehood may be artificially constructed in response to immediate need, or it may be ancient and organic, growing over time. It has the potential to cut across race, class, and gender. Its central tenets and myths may be reinterpreted, recreated, enlarged upon, or modified as the political situation warrants. Flexibility of belief and the need to identify with a larger group account both for the durability of ethnic loyalty and its vulnerability to manipulation. This volume is particularly timely at a moment when national governments in many parts of the world must face the adoption of more equitable forms of rule to hold their ethnically diverse societies together. Taken together, the analyses presented here warn against institutionalizing ethnic strife and offer a vision of how the state may foster expectations and policies that serve the interests of all ethnic groups within their borders. Political scientists, historians, and anthropologists will find this book valuable for its interpretations of forces that continue to reshape the social and political fabric of the world.

Author : Joseph Maier,Chaim Isaac Waxman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412822939

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Ethnicity, Identity, and History by Joseph Maier,Chaim Isaac Waxman Pdf

In a wide-ranging analysis of the drama of history, the importance of ethnicity, and Jewish identity, these essays explore areas of political and cultural disciplines fused with elegance in the work of the late eminent sociologist Werner J. Cahnman. The prominence of the American and European historians, philosophers, geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists in this volume represents evidence of the wide effect that Cahnman's work had on scholars in a number of fields in academic work. This volume will make timely and rewarding reading for social scientists and historians, especially those concerned with the religious factor. Contributors: Joseph B. Maier, Chaim I. Waxman, Louis Dumont, Karl Bosl, K.M. Bolte, Edmund Leites, Lewis S. Feuer, Lester Singer, Harriet D. Lyons, Andrew P. Lyons, Alvin Boskoff, Nathan Glazer, Irving Louis Horowitz, Herbert A. Strauss, William Spinrad, Calvin Goldscheider, Saul B. Cohen, and Emmanuel Maier.

Author : Muthiah Alagappa
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804742278

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Coercion and Governance by Muthiah Alagappa Pdf

This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It discusses these relations in countries where the military continues to dominate the political realm as well as others where it is disengaging from politics.