The 1990s was a period of remarkable progress in peaceful transition in the world, from South Africa to the former Soviet Union to, somewhat more tentatively, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Spending on the military plummeted almost 40% worldwide. Although tensions and a worrisome rise in militarism are still percolating in the world, our knowledge and practice of conflict resolution has ...

This article explores militarism as a function of, and response to, ontological insecurity through speculative fictions of zombie apocalypse, specifically the 2013 film World War Z (WWZ). It begins with question: why is apocalypse so terrible for women? The genre relies on existing political social conditions to articulate anxieties vulnerabilities present avenues resistance or, I argue case WW...

How does militarism impact the natural environment? There is a growing body of scholarly work interrogating intersection environmental impacts and military activities from what can be referred to as “footprint” perspective, which documents tangible impacts. Further, this paper introduces an alternative perspective on militarism's impacts, emphasizes Indigenous people's relationship environment,...

the basic aim of this research is, to explain the nature of iran educational system from its modernization time till now. accessing this, historical analysis method was used. results show that basic characteristics in iran educational system are: imitating, militarism authority and religious orientation; that every one of them is an outcome arising from the streams that had important roles to e...

What has gone wrong with America is not a random visitation of fate. It is the result of forces that have assumed control of the American system... These forces are: militarism, monopoly, and the mass media... Mass media monopolies control people by their control of information... And who can deny that we are a nation addicted to television and the constant flow of media? And not a few of us ar...

Militarism and soldiering are materialized by gendered imaginaries enabled through physical emotional labor within military households. Soldier households in Pakistan rarely nuclear, the is filtered structures of rurality, postcoloniality, localized manifestations patriarchy. This article draws upon interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation villages institutions to examine rel...