Univ., Habil.-Schr.--Rostock, 2004.

This dissertation examines the ways in which military personnel interacted with religion during World War II. It argues that the challenges of wartime service provided the impetus and the opportunity to improvise religious practices, refine religious beliefs amid new challenges, and broaden religious understanding through interaction with those from other traditions. Methodologically, this dissertation moves beyond existing analyses that focus primarily on institutions and their representatives such as military chaplains. Instead, it explores first-person accounts left by men and women who were not part of the chaplain corps and analyzes ways in which non-chaplains engaged religion. The exigencies of war contributed to religious innovation as soldiers and sailors improvised religious practices. Lay leaders sometimes filled in to lead services as chaplains were often not available. Soldiers and sailors also modified individual religious practices such as diet, fasting, and prayer to fit the context of military service. The challenges of wartime service also led troops to refine previously held religious beliefs as well as to adopt new interpretations based on personal experiences. Soldiers and sailors often clung to whatever religious beliefs or practices they saw as potentially beneficial. Finally, religious mixing combined with social dislocation and stress to create an atmosphere in which troops questioned and reformulated their religious identities. As soldiers and sailors formed bonds with those from other traditions, it became more difficult to maintain previous assumptions rooted in suspicion and rumor about other faiths. Understanding how soldiers and sailors interacted with religion in World War II anticipates significant aspects of what many scholars have described as a religious revival in the two decades following the war. It suggests that many veterans returned to civilian life with more confidence in their own religious agency and with sharpened conceptions of what they considered religious essentials.

This thesis evaluates the effects of compulsory military service in South Korea on the political behavior of men from a public policy standpoint. I take an institutional point of view on conscription, in that conscription forces the military to accept individuals with minimal screening. Given the distinct set of values embodied by the military, I hypothesize that the military would need a powerful, comprehensive, and fast program of indoctrination to re-socialize civilians into military uniform, trustable enough to be entrusted with a gun or a confidential document. Based on the existence of such a program and related academic literature, I go on to look at how a military attitude has political implications, especially for the security-environment of the Korean peninsula. Given the ideological nature of the inter-Korean conflict, the South Korean military was biased against the liberals, as liberals were most likely to generate policies supporting conciliatory and cooperative measures towards North Korea, like the removal of U.S. forces from South Korea and the repeal of the National Security Laws that outlaw discussion of communism. For an empirical evaluation, I pose the hypothesis that this political bias would manifest itself in the male public via the military’s indoctrinative program. With data from the Korean General Social Survey, the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, and the South Korean General Election Panel Study, I have found that males respond acutely to specific security issues in favor or against according to the military’s point of view. However, the evidence for an overall bias on political parties generally was inconclusive. The uncertainty was mainly rooted in the fact that liberal parties have strategically avoided speaking out on specific policy issues during election.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, May, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Cover title. "December 2002." AD-A411 150. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-213). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (LL.M.)--George Washington University, 2003. / Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 9, 2005). "August 31, 2003." "ADA417077"--URL. Includes bibliographical references. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also issued in paper format.

Thesis (MMAS)--Command and General Staff College (CGSC), 2006. / AD-A452 186.

This paper examines the history of civil military relations in Mexico and Argentina in an attempt to understand why Mexico was able to subordinate its military following the fall of the Porfírian military regime, while Argentina experienced decades of military intervention into the civilian sphere. It argues that strong governmental and political institutions in Mexico were the key to subordinating the Mexican military to civilian control, while patterns of populist political movements in Argentina hampered the formation of strong governmental institutions that would have enabled the subordination of the military to civilian control.

Submitted by Leandro Brito null (leandrobritolb91@gmail.com) on 2018-01-21T20:10:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação última versão -Leandro Brito.pdf: 31345352 bytes, checksum: cbd35d50d6aaba75e52d9f75dd0e0da2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Minervina Teixeira Lopes null (vina_lopes@bauru.unesp.br) on 2018-01-22T16:40:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 brito_l_me_bauru.pdf: 31189758 bytes, checksum: 5813993c6e9f3f82af4253a964451ede (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-22T16:40:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 brito_l_me_bauru.pdf: 31189758 bytes, checksum: 5813993c6e9f3f82af4253a964451ede (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-12 / Este trabalho tem como proposta fazer uma análise do conteúdo jornalístico do jornal O Sol. O periódico alternativo circulou no Rio de Janeiro entre setembro de 1967 e janeiro de 1968. A pesquisa tem como tema central a imprensa alternativa em torno do jornal-escola carioca idealizado no período da ditadura civil-militar brasileira em oposição ao regime ditatorial (1964-1985). Nela, busca-se definir a linha editorial, a linguagem, as técnicas, os critérios de noticiabilidade, bem como as concepções jornalísticas defendidas pela equipe no período em que a folha circulou encartado no Jornal dos Sport – veículo financiador d’O Sol – que vai de 21 de setembro a 26 de novembro de 1967. Aqui, tem-se como objetivo analisar os materiais publicados a fim de identificar o enquadramento dado pelos jornalistas do periódico aos assuntos noticiados, assim como observar as técnicas de produção utilizadas e sua posição em relação à prática jornalística, para então conseguir definir o tipo de jornalismo produzido pela imprensa alternativa antes da implantação do Ato Institucional de número 5 (AI-5) – momento de intensificação da repressão do governo militar. Para responder às perguntas levantadas ao longo deste estudo, três procedimentos metodológicos foram utilizados: a pesquisa e a comparação bibliográfica, a entrevista semiestruturada e a análise do conteúdo, proposta por Laurence Bardin. / This work is aimed at making an analysis the journalistic content of the newspaper O Sol. The alternative newspaper circulated in Rio de Janeiro between September 1967 and January 1968. The research work is focused on alternative press around the carioca school newspaper created in the period of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship as opposed to the dictatorial regime (1964-1985). It seeks to define the editorial line, the language, the techniques, the criteria of newsworthiness as well as the journalistic conceptions defended by the team in the period in which the newspaper was published in the Jornal dos Sports – financing vehicle of O Sol – which will take place from September 21, 1967 to November 26, 1967. Here, the objective is to analyze the published materials in order to identify the framework provided by journalist for the subjects reported, also observing the production techniques used and their position in relation to journalistic practice, in order to define type of journalism produced by the alternative press before the implantation of the Institutional Act number 5 (AI-5) – moment of intensification of the repression of the military government. In order to answer the questions this study, three methodological procedures were used: bibliographical research and comparison, semi-structured interview and content analysis, proposed by Laurence Bardin.