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Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Sato, Hiroaki: Legends of the Samurai. + Sato, Shigeru: War, nationalism, and peasants. Java under the Japanese occupation, 1942-45. + Warrior rule in Japan./ Ed. Marius B. Jansen

What leads a democratic government to use military force to counter a domestic or external threat? How does it legitimize this mobilization to its citizenry? And what is the significance for civilian control of the military? The authors of Mobilizing Force draw on case studies from around the world to systematically examine these critical questions, exploring the interrelationships among security threats, the militarization of security policy, and democratic accountability

Chapter 1: "Introduction: Japan as a Multilayered Democracy" - Nissim Otmazgin, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, and Alon Levkowitz, S. 1. - Part I: Pre-war Sources of Japanese Democracy . - Chapter 2: "11 February 1889: Japan's First Constitution" - Lionel Babicz, S. 21. - Chapter 3: "Is Taisho Demokurashi the Same as Taisho Democracy?" - Kiichi Tachibana, S. 37. - Chapter 4: "The making of private and public space in Meiji Japan" - Kurt Radtke, S. 53. - Part II: Democratic Institutions and State Transformation . - Chapter 5: "The Postwar Emperor in Democratized Japan" - Ben-Ami Shillony, S. 73. - Chapter 6: "Japan's Remilitarization Debate and the Projection of Democracy" - Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, S. 89. - Chapter 7: "Normalization, Democracy and the Armed Forces: the Transformation of the Japanese Military" - Ben-Ari Eyal, S. 105. - Chapter 8: "Japan's Labor Tribunal System: A New Paradigm for Democratic Justice?" - Wered Ben-Sade, S. 123. - Part III: Political Culture and Civil Society . - Chapter 9: "Americanization and Democratization: Cultural Aspects of Japanese Democracy" - Nissim Otmazgin, S. 145. - Chapter 10: "Democracy and Liberalism in Postwar Japan: the Legacies of the 1960s Student Uprising" - Michal Daliot-Bul, S. 159. - Chapter 11: "Televised Democracy? How Politicians Handle Questions during Broadcast Talk Shows" - Ofer Feldman, S. 175. - Chapter 12: "Pink Democracy: Dynamic Gender in Japan's Women's Politics" - Ayala Klemperer-Markman, S. 197. - Part IV: Conclusion. - Chapter 13: "Is Democracy under Threat? Some Thoughts Concerning Japan and Elsewhere" - J.A.A. Stockwin, S. 219

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the long view that one can begin to see the commonalities that emerge from the different forms of conflict and can begin to generalize. [From the Introduction] More needs to be understood about the ways of war and its effects. What implications does war have for people, their lived-in communities and larger political systems; how do they cope and adjust in war situations and how do they deal with the changed world that they inhabit once peace is declared? Through a series of essays that move from looking at the nature of violence to the peace processes that follow it, this important book provides some answers to these questions. It also analyzes those new dimensions of social interaction, such as the internet, which now provide a bridge between local concerns and global networks and are fundamentally altering the practices of war