Global Militarization

Dr. Peter Wallensteen is associate professor of peace research at Uppsala University in Sweden. He served as a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan in 1984 and is the author of Dilemmas of Economic Coercion: Sanctions in World Politics (1983). Dr. Johan Galtung is professor of peace and conflict research at the Science Center in Berlin. He is the author of Essays in Peace Research , Volumes 1-5 (1975-1980) and was the founder of the Journal of Peace Research. Dr. Carlos Portales is a researcher at FLACSO in Santiago, Chile, and teaches part time in the M.A. program of the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile.

• Also of Interest -- Preface -- The State of the Art -- Military Formations and Social Formations: A Structural Analysis -- Global Militarization: Crucial Trends and Links -- Global Conflict Formations: Present Developments and Future Directions -- War and the Power of Warmakers in Western Europe and Elsewhere, 1600-1980 -- The Urban Type of Society and International War -- Local Experiences: Historical Dimensions -- Militarization in Thai Society -- Militarization and Political Institutions in Chile -- The Ghanaian Experiments with Military Rule -- The Search for Alternatives -- Defense Without Threat: Switzerland's Security Policy -- Conflict and Restraint: Poland, 1980-1982 -- Incompatibility, Militarization, and Conflict Resolution