1st Edition

Police, Military and Ethnicity Foundations of State Power

Edited By Cynthia Enloe Copyright 1980
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of essays describes and analyzes the ways in which government policymakers go about designing police forces and militaries. The author includes both wide-ranging comparative investigations of the dimensions of the state security phenomenon and specific case studies. Dr. Enloe uses the sociological concept of ethnicity to demon-strate how the armed forces in sev-eral nations have... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction: Ethnicity and the State 2. The Military Uses of Ethnicity 3. Ethnicity and the Myth of the Military in African Development 4. Ethnic Factors in the Evolution of the South African Military 5. The Issue Saliency of the Military-Ethnic Connection: Some Thoughts on Malaysia 6. The Military—A Sleeper in British Politics? 7. Police and Military in Ulster: State Security and Citizen Security 8. Ethnicity and Militarization: Factors Shaping the Roles of Police in Third World Nations 9. Police and Military in the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict 10. Ethnicity, Bureaucracy and State Building in Africa and Latin America

Biography

Cynthia Enloe