Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military
Series Introduction
On behalf of the Fellows of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, I am pleased to welcome Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military to our series, IUS Special Editions on Armed Forces and Society. This latest Special Edition contains selections from a number of distinguished scholars of the military and society, including the editors, Henry Dietz, Jerrold Elkin, and Maurice Roumani.
The book contributes to an understanding of three variables that are critical in the political and social life of many Third World nations: ethnicity, integration, and the impact of the military upon both. An innovative analytic schema provides a common framework for the substantive chapters and suggests a means of integrating data from other countries not treated here. In addition, the book contains a wealth of detailed information that will be of great interest to students of the particular nations covered in the volume.
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, founded in 1960 by Morris Janowitz, is an international and multidisciplinary society of independent scholars interested in the military, military institutions, and their relationships with the broader society. Some of the best scholarly work in these areas is published in the IUS journal, Armed Forces & Society. We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit scholarly society and do not accept government subsidies or take positions on political issues as an organization. The activities of the Seminar are underwritten by a core grant from The Ford Foundation and supported by The University of Chicago. We are deeply indebted to these institutions for their continuing support of our activities.
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John Allen Williams
Loyola University Chicago
IUS Vice Chairman and Executive Director
Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military
EDITED BY
HenryDietz,JerroldElkin,andMauriceRoumani
First published 1991 by Westview Press, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ethnicity, integration, and the military / edited by Henry Dietz,
Jerrold Elkin, and Maurice Roumani.
p. cm.(IUS special editions on armed forces and society:
no. 3)
1. Sociology, Military. 2. Ethnicity. 3. Social integration.
I. Dietz, Henry. II. Elkin, Jerrold. III. Roumani, Maurice M.
IV. Series.
U21.5.E84 1991
306.2'7dc20 91-10233
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-3670-0392-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-3671-5379-3 (pbk)
DOI: 10.4324/9780429033780
Contents
Henry Dietz, Jerrold Elkin, and Maurice Roumani
2 The Military as a Vehicle for Social Integration: The Afro-American Experience as Data
John Sibley Butler
3 The Military, Ethnicity, and Integration in Israel Revisited
Maurice Roumani
4 Greece and Turkey: The Military and Social Integration
James Brown
5 China: A Deviant Case
Gordon Bennett
6 The Military and National Integration in India
Raju G.C. Thomas and Bharat Karnad
7 The Military and Social Integration in Ethiopia
Claude E. Welch, Jr.
8 State-Consolidation and Social Integration in Nigeria: The Military's Search for the Elusive
Stephen Wright
9 Conclusions
Henry Dietz
- 2 The Military as a Vehicle for Social Integration: The Afro-American Experience as Data
- 3 The Military, Ethnicity, and Integration in Israel Revisited
- 4 Greece and Turkey: The Military and Social Integration
- 5 China: A Deviant Case
- 6 The Military and National Integration in India
- 7 The Military and Social Integration in Ethiopia
- 8 State-Consolidation and Social Integration in Nigeria: The Military's Search for the Elusive
- 9 Conclusions
Guide
Gordon Bennett is an Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. He specializes in Chinese and Japanese politics and American foreign policy toward East Asia. He is currently conducting research on political legitimation in Asian and comparative perspectives. He has published four books and numerous articles and chapters and has had research grants from NDEA/Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, and the Ford Foundation.
James Brown is Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He has written extensively on national security policy and civil-military relations, with materials appearing in Armed Fowes and Society, the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, and Defense Analysis. He is associate chairman of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and has served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Planning and Resources at the Department of Defense.
John Sibley Butler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas in Austin and holds the Taca Centennial professorship in Liberal Arts. He has written widely in the area of sociology of organizations with special emphasis on race and the military and the sociology of economics. He has a forthcoming book entitled The Sociology of Economics. Reconstruction of Race Ethnicity and Economics. At present he is investigating the impact of military service on the attitudes of patriotism and international issues.
Henry Dietz is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas in Austin. His major areas of research involve Latin American politics and comparative urban politics, along with political participation and poverty and politics. He has done extensive field work in Peru among low-income urban groups and has published articles in tie Journal of Political and Military Sociology, the American Journal of Political Science, and ComparativePolitical Studies as well as chapters in many books. He was a visiting professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1985-86.
Jerrold Elkin holds a JD degree from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently U.S. Assistant Air Attache to India. He formerly served as an analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency and as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. His articles have appeared in