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
capitalized on racial and ethnic diversity to foster their own
goals and those of the government and power elites. She examines
this idea by focusing on the ethnic factors involved in the
evolution of the South African military, the military-ethnic
con-nection in Malaysia, and the role of the armed forces in the
conflict in Ulster.
The author illustrates convin-cingly that not only individual
citizens desire security, but that nation-states themselves are
en-gaged in the same pursuit. What often passes for or is justified
in the name of citizen protection is in fact done to strengthen the
state itself. Militaries are recruited in ethni-cally skewed ways,
and increasing numbers of police forces through-out the world have
military capacities not to enhance the secu-rity of private
individuals, but to protect the status quo of the central
government and the nation's "es-tablishment."
Dr. Enloe covers an assortment of countries within the framework
of her central argument, which is practically as well as
theoretically significant. Each chapter can be read on its own, and
all deal with currently salient political condi-tions.
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