Civil-military relations, nation building, and national identity : comparative perspectives / edited by Constantine P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra Vajpeyi, and Amir Bar-or.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Amir Bar-or -- 1. Introduction : notes and concepts / Constantine P. Danopoulos and Dhirendra Vajpeyi -- 2. Blowing hot and cold : a therapy of regional war and peace / Benjamin Miller -- 3. The nation-state, nationalism, and civil-military relations theory / Glen Segell -- 4. Russia's search for identity, nationalism, and national security / Sergei Baburkin -- 5. Military-civilian integration in China : legacy and policy / Yitzhak Shichor -- 6. National identity, national security, and Amazonia : military perceptions and attitudes in contemporary Brazil / Joao R. Martins Filho and Daniel Zirker -- 7. The military and the politics of lustration in Nigeria / Pita Agbese -- 8. Civil-military relations in the third Yugoslavia : in a broken mirror / Biljana Vankovska -- 9. Questioning the role of army in nation-building : the development of critical discourse on civil-military relations in Israel / Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky -- 10. Civil-military relations, political Islam, and security : the Turkish case / Metin Heper and Aylin Guney -- 11. The search for a national symbol in a military regime : the case of Liberia / Yukutiel Gershoni -- 12. The Macedonian question : from conflict to cooperation? / Victor Roudometof -- 13. Framing the conflict : Slovenia in search of her army / Jozef Figa -- 14. Partition revisited : the international dimension and the case of Cyprus / Philippos K. Savvides.