Fighting for rights : military service and the politics of citizenship

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Label

Fighting for rights : military service and the politics of citizenship

Title remainder

military service and the politics of citizenship

Statement of responsibility

Ronald R. Krebs

Creator

• Krebs, Ronald R., 1974-

Subject

• Citizenship -- Israel
• trueCitizenship -- United States
• Civil-military relations -- Israel
• Civil-military relations -- United States
• trueElectronic books
• Sociology, Military -- Israel
• Sociology, Military -- United States
• United States. -- Minorities
• Israel, Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel -- Minorities

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military's participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity and citizenship. Yet how and when do these policies transform patterns of citizenship? Military service, Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights. Minority groups have at times effectively contrasted their people's battlefield sacrifices to the reality of inequity, compelling state leaders to concede to their claims. At the same time, military service can shape when, for what, and how minorities have engaged in political activism in the quest for meaningful citizenship. Employing a range of rich primary materials, Krebs shows how the military's participation policies shaped Arab citizens' struggles for first-class citizenship in Israel from independence to the mid-1980s and African Americans' quest for civil rights, from World War I to the Korean War. Fighting for Rights helps us make sense of contemporary debates over gays in the military and over the virtues and dangers of liberal and communitarian visions for society. It suggests that rhetoric is more than just a weapon of the weak, that it is essential to political exchange, and that politics rests on a dual foundation of rationality and culture

Member of

• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

306.2/70973

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cornell studies in security affairs

Target audience

adult