Introduction

Zirker, Daniel

Introduction

dc.contributor.author	Zirker, Daniel	en_NZ
dc.contributor.editor	Zirker, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-28T01:25:09Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-04	en_NZ
dc.date.available	2020-02-28T01:25:09Z
dc.date.issued	2015	en_NZ
dc.description.abstract	The "Third Wave of Democracy" has had a decidedly mixed impact on the world's military establishments. An increasing appearance of "tribal behavior" and social isolation of military institutions in a post-conscription era, wars of attrition fought conservatively by volunteer forces against ethnic armies, religious tradition versus various versions of modernity, these patterns are rapidly becoming the hallmarks of our age. The end of the Cold War, and of ideology as a driving force of conflict has had profound impacts upon our understanding of socio-political development in virtually all parts of the world. In an important sense, identities-ethnic, religious, linguistic and even historic-have replaced the dichotomous ideological divide that characterized the Cold War. Social science axioms of that now almost-forgotten period have collapsed, along with the major "East Bloc" political systems, while pre-WWI obsessions with conceptualizations of culture, identity, religion and ethnicity have increasingly come to dominate political behavior.
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dc.identifier.citation	Zirker, D. (2015). Introduction. In D. Zirker (Ed.), Forging Military Identity in Culturally Pluralistic Societies: Quasi-Ethnicity (pp. 1–15). Lanham, Maryland, United States: Lexington Books.	en
dc.identifier.issn	1352-8165	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13474
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Lexington Books	en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOf	Forging Military Identity in Culturally Pluralistic Societies: Quasi-Ethnicity
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dc.rights	© 2015 Lexington Books. Reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield(https://rowman.com/)
dc.subject	Arts & Humanities	en_NZ
dc.subject	Theater	en_NZ
dc.title	Introduction	en_NZ
dc.type	Chapter in Book
pubs.begin-page	1
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pubs.end-page	15
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pubs.place-of-publication	Lanham, Maryland, United States
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_NZ
pubs.user.info	Zirker, Daniel (dzirker@waikato.ac.nz)
uow.verification.status	verified