Aaron Belkin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254368 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aaron Belkin |
| NOMBRES | Aaron |
| APELLIDO | Belkin |
| FIRMA | BELKIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 408 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Queer Militarism
Does advocating for queer and trans people to serve in the US military move the struggle for queer and trans justice forward toward liberation by improving the lives of queer and trans soldiers and increasing societal acceptance of queer and trans people? Or does it legitimize US military imperialism and increase the likelihood of more queer and trans people being abused and traumatized in the US military? This article consists of a conversation …
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Trans in the United States military
This article is the proceedings of a symposium on the experience of trans people in the United States military and the advocacy to end the trans military ban. This symposium was co-sponsored by AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists, and took place at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. It featured speakers Amir Ahuja, a psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center; …
Citizenship in Question
aCknowl EdgmEntSThis volume reflects impor tant collaborations beyond those of the coeditors, Benjamin Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, who first conceived of the project at a dinner party in Berkeley, California, in 2009.Comparing experiences outside academia, Lawrance as an expert witness and Stevens as an investigative journalist, they noted similarities in their encounters with people struggling to prove their identity and citizenship.Convers…
What is Critical Military Studies
e p t e d fo r p u blic a tio n.Cit a tio n fo r fin al p u blis h e d ve r sio n:B a s h a m , Victo ri a , B elki n, Aa r o n a n d Gifkin s, Je s s 2 0 1 5. W h a t is c ritic al m ilit a ry s t u di e s ?C ri tic al Milit a ry S t u di e s 1 (1) , p p .1-2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5. 1 0 0 6 8 7 9 P u blis h e r s p a g e : h t t p:// dx.d oi.o r g/ 1 0. 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5
The Politics of Paranoia
For almost 20 years, gay rights advocates and defenders of military anti-gay discrimination engaged in a phony debate about whether allowing open service would undermine unit cohesion. To be sure, a preponderance of evidence showed that open service would not undermine cohesion, and the repeal of don't ask, don't tell (DADT) required advocates to prevail on that point in the court of public opinion. But concerns about cohesion were never the basi…
Readiness and Dadt Repeal
Prior to the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual troops to serve openly would harm the military, and a group of more than 1,000 retired general and flag officers predicted that repeal could 'break the All-Volunteer Force.' This study is the first scholarly effort to assess the accuracy of such predictions about the impact of DADT repeal on military readin…
Militarized Masculinities and the Erasure of Violence
Conceptualizing the Civil-Military Gap
The authors suggest that scholars mean very different things when they refer to the civil-military gap. To illustrate the point, the authors conceptualize the gap in terms of four distinct ideal types and show that scholars have referred to each variant as the civil-military gap at different times. Though the authors recognize that the four ideal types-cultural, demographic, policy preference, and institutional-are not always mutually exclusive, …
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
T en years ago, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress, and much of the nation were swept up in a monumental debate on whether or not acknowledged gays and lesbians would be allowed to serve in the US military. Having promised in his campaign to extend this civil right to gays and lesbians, Clinton faced a difficult challenge when he attempted to fulfill his pledge, opposed as he was by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congress…
Spam Filter
Research Article| January 01 2008 Spam Filter: Gay Rights and the Normalization of Male-Male Rape in the U.S. Military Aaron Belkin Aaron Belkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 180–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-029 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
This article asks what impact, if any, the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy might have on the U.S. military's reputation. Original empirical research is presented to suggest that the policy harms the military's reputation in four ways: the policy is inconsistent with public opinion, it prompts many journalists to criticize the armed forces while attracting almost no favorable media coverage, it provides a vehicle for antimilitary protesters to port…
The Hollywood War Machine
Perhaps among the most perplexing aspects of the militarization of American culture is the way in which militarism has expanded at the same time that it has become so thoroughly normalized, unremar
Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat
Based on a new Army War College study of unit cohesion in the Iraq War, Wong et al. argue that successful unit performance is determined by social cohesion (the strength of interpersonal bonds among members) rather than task cohesion (a sense of shared commitment to the unit's mission). If correct, these conclusions have important implications for scholarship as well as for numerous U.S. military policies such as the Unit Manning System. However,…
United We Stand?
Coup Risk, Counterbalancing, and International Conflict
Contrary to the literature on rallies-around-the-flag, this article argues that, in some circumstances, leaders may use international conflict to promote domestic divisiveness. More specifically, the threat of a military coup generally prompts leaders to divide their militaries (a practice known as counterbalancing), and even to engage in international conflict to ensure that various branches of their own armed forces remain distrustful of one an…
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
T en years ago, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress, and much of the na- tion were swept up in a monumental debate on whether or not acknowledged gays and lesbians would be allowed to serve in the US military. Having promised in his campaign to extend this civil right to gays and lesbians, Clinton faced a difficult challenge when he attempted to fulfill his pledge, opposed as he was by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congre…
Toward a Structural Understanding of Coup Risk
Although coup risk plays an important role in theories of war, revolution, and democratization, scholars have not developed a rigorous conceptualization and valid measure of the concept. We develop a structural understanding of coup risk as distinct from proximate causes of coups as well as coup-proofing strategies that regimes implement to avert coups. Theoretical insights into factors that predispose regimes toward coup vulnerability provide th…
A Modest Proposal
October 01 2002 A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military Aaron Belkin, Aaron Belkin Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Associate Professor of Sociology at Hamline University Search for other works…
When is Strategic Bombing Effective? Domestic Legitimacy and Aerial Denial
The Pentagon's Gay Ban is Not Based on Military Necessity
When President Bill Clinton attempted to lift the U.S. military's ban on gay and lesbian soldiers, Congress reacted by enacting a law that prohibits known homosexuals from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The official justification for the new policy is the unit cohesion rationale, the notion that if known gays and lesbians were allowed to serve, unit cohesion, performance, readiness and morale would decline. The thesis of this paper is that the…
Homosexuality and the Israel Defense Forces
In this article we argue that Israel's 1993 decision to lift its gay ban did not influence military performance. Then we assess three arguments raised by experts who claim that Israeli experiences are not relevant for determining what would happen if the U.S. Congress and Pentagon lifted the American gay ban. In particular, we assess the arguments that most gay Israeli combat soldiers do not disclose their sexuality to peers, that some receive sp…
Homosexual Personnel Policy in the Canadian Forces
AS THE NUMBER OF COUNTRIES THAT PERMIT GAY and lesbian soldiers to serve in the armed forces grows, it is increasingly important to determine whether official decisions to include homosexual service members in the military lead to changes in organizational performance. Although most member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), along with a handful of other nations, allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve, there has been litt…
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Policy toward Iran1497Counterfactuals about War and Its Absence1718Using Counterfactuals in Historical Analysis: Theories of Revolution1879Counterfactuals and International Affairs: Some Insights from Game Theory21110Off-the-Path Behavior: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Counterfactuals and Its Implications for Political and Historical Analysis23011Rerunning History: Counterfactual Simulation in World Politics24712Counterfactuals, Past and Future268…
Toward a Structural Understanding of Coup Risk
Although coup risk plays an important role in theories of war, revolution, and democratization, scholars have not developed a rigorous conceptualization and valid measure of the concept. We develop a structural understanding of coup risk as distinct from proximate causes of coups as well as coup-proofing strategies that regimes implement to avert coups. Theoretical insights into factors that predispose regimes toward coup vulnerability provide th…
What is Critical Military Studies
e p t e d fo r p u blic a tio n.Cit a tio n fo r fin al p u blis h e d ve r sio n:B a s h a m , Victo ri a , B elki n, Aa r o n a n d Gifkin s, Je s s 2 0 1 5. W h a t is c ritic al m ilit a ry s t u di e s ?C ri tic al Milit a ry S t u di e s 1 (1) , p p .1-2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5. 1 0 0 6 8 7 9 P u blis h e r s p a g e : h t t p:// dx.d oi.o r g/ 1 0. 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5
Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat
Based on a new Army War College study of unit cohesion in the Iraq War, Wong et al. argue that successful unit performance is determined by social cohesion (the strength of interpersonal bonds among members) rather than task cohesion (a sense of shared commitment to the unit's mission). If correct, these conclusions have important implications for scholarship as well as for numerous U.S. military policies such as the Unit Manning System. However,…
Coup Risk, Counterbalancing, and International Conflict
Contrary to the literature on rallies-around-the-flag, this article argues that, in some circumstances, leaders may use international conflict to promote domestic divisiveness. More specifically, the threat of a military coup generally prompts leaders to divide their militaries (a practice known as counterbalancing), and even to engage in international conflict to ensure that various branches of their own armed forces remain distrustful of one an…
Conceptualizing the Civil-Military Gap
The authors suggest that scholars mean very different things when they refer to the civil-military gap. To illustrate the point, the authors conceptualize the gap in terms of four distinct ideal types and show that scholars have referred to each variant as the civil-military gap at different times. Though the authors recognize that the four ideal types-cultural, demographic, policy preference, and institutional-are not always mutually exclusive, …
Citizenship in Question
aCknowl EdgmEntSThis volume reflects impor tant collaborations beyond those of the coeditors, Benjamin Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, who first conceived of the project at a dinner party in Berkeley, California, in 2009.Comparing experiences outside academia, Lawrance as an expert witness and Stevens as an investigative journalist, they noted similarities in their encounters with people struggling to prove their identity and citizenship.Convers…
Militarized Masculinities and the Erasure of Violence
Homosexuality and the Israel Defense Forces
In this article we argue that Israel's 1993 decision to lift its gay ban did not influence military performance. Then we assess three arguments raised by experts who claim that Israeli experiences are not relevant for determining what would happen if the U.S. Congress and Pentagon lifted the American gay ban. In particular, we assess the arguments that most gay Israeli combat soldiers do not disclose their sexuality to peers, that some receive sp…
When is Strategic Bombing Effective? Domestic Legitimacy and Aerial Denial
The Pentagon's Gay Ban is Not Based on Military Necessity
When President Bill Clinton attempted to lift the U.S. military's ban on gay and lesbian soldiers, Congress reacted by enacting a law that prohibits known homosexuals from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The official justification for the new policy is the unit cohesion rationale, the notion that if known gays and lesbians were allowed to serve, unit cohesion, performance, readiness and morale would decline. The thesis of this paper is that the…
Readiness and Dadt Repeal
Prior to the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual troops to serve openly would harm the military, and a group of more than 1,000 retired general and flag officers predicted that repeal could 'break the All-Volunteer Force.' This study is the first scholarly effort to assess the accuracy of such predictions about the impact of DADT repeal on military readin…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
This article asks what impact, if any, the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy might have on the U.S. military's reputation. Original empirical research is presented to suggest that the policy harms the military's reputation in four ways: the policy is inconsistent with public opinion, it prompts many journalists to criticize the armed forces while attracting almost no favorable media coverage, it provides a vehicle for antimilitary protesters to port…
Queer Militarism
Does advocating for queer and trans people to serve in the US military move the struggle for queer and trans justice forward toward liberation by improving the lives of queer and trans soldiers and increasing societal acceptance of queer and trans people? Or does it legitimize US military imperialism and increase the likelihood of more queer and trans people being abused and traumatized in the US military? This article consists of a conversation …
A Modest Proposal
October 01 2002 A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military Aaron Belkin, Aaron Belkin Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Associate Professor of Sociology at Hamline University Search for other works…
Homosexual Personnel Policy in the Canadian Forces
AS THE NUMBER OF COUNTRIES THAT PERMIT GAY and lesbian soldiers to serve in the armed forces grows, it is increasingly important to determine whether official decisions to include homosexual service members in the military lead to changes in organizational performance. Although most member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), along with a handful of other nations, allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve, there has been litt…
USSR's Third World orphans
In his 1991 State of the Union address, President George Bush proclaimed, as was his custom, that 'we have before us the long-held promise of a New World Order' .' Like Presidents Wilson and Truman before him, President Bush sought to build a stable, lawful peace on the foundation of military victory. Many doubt whether this goal is attainable, and suspect that a more reasonable hope is, in the phrase of the editors of the New Republic, 'the chan…
The Politics of Paranoia
For almost 20 years, gay rights advocates and defenders of military anti-gay discrimination engaged in a phony debate about whether allowing open service would undermine unit cohesion. To be sure, a preponderance of evidence showed that open service would not undermine cohesion, and the repeal of don't ask, don't tell (DADT) required advocates to prevail on that point in the court of public opinion. But concerns about cohesion were never the basi…
Triangular Mutual Security
We argue that as the superpowers move closer together, they need to ensure that security concerns of Third World states are taken into account. Otherwise, Moscow and Washington may face risks to their own security. This imperative applies especially to times of crisis, when deals struck at the superpower level may exacerbate fears of states who see their security being bargained away, thus leading to dangerous reactions. We illustrate our argumen…
Triangular Mutual Security
We argue that as the superpowers move closer together, they need to ensure that security concerns of Third World states are taken into account. Otherwise, Moscow and Washington may face risks to their own security. This imperative applies especially to times of crisis, when deals struck at the superpower level may exacerbate fears of states who see their security being bargained away, thus leading to dangerous reactions. We illustrate our argumen…
USSR's Third World orphans
In his 1991 State of the Union address, President George Bush proclaimed, as was his custom, that 'we have before us the long-held promise of a New World Order' .' Like Presidents Wilson and Truman before him, President Bush sought to build a stable, lawful peace on the foundation of military victory. Many doubt whether this goal is attainable, and suspect that a more reasonable hope is, in the phrase of the editors of the New Republic, 'the chan…
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Policy toward Iran1497Counterfactuals about War and Its Absence1718Using Counterfactuals in Historical Analysis: Theories of Revolution1879Counterfactuals and International Affairs: Some Insights from Game Theory21110Off-the-Path Behavior: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Counterfactuals and Its Implications for Political and Historical Analysis23011Rerunning History: Counterfactual Simulation in World Politics24712Counterfactuals, Past and Future268…
Homosexual Personnel Policy in the Canadian Forces
AS THE NUMBER OF COUNTRIES THAT PERMIT GAY and lesbian soldiers to serve in the armed forces grows, it is increasingly important to determine whether official decisions to include homosexual service members in the military lead to changes in organizational performance. Although most member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), along with a handful of other nations, allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve, there has been litt…
The Pentagon's Gay Ban is Not Based on Military Necessity
When President Bill Clinton attempted to lift the U.S. military's ban on gay and lesbian soldiers, Congress reacted by enacting a law that prohibits known homosexuals from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The official justification for the new policy is the unit cohesion rationale, the notion that if known gays and lesbians were allowed to serve, unit cohesion, performance, readiness and morale would decline. The thesis of this paper is that the…
Homosexuality and the Israel Defense Forces
In this article we argue that Israel's 1993 decision to lift its gay ban did not influence military performance. Then we assess three arguments raised by experts who claim that Israeli experiences are not relevant for determining what would happen if the U.S. Congress and Pentagon lifted the American gay ban. In particular, we assess the arguments that most gay Israeli combat soldiers do not disclose their sexuality to peers, that some receive sp…
A Modest Proposal
October 01 2002 A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military Aaron Belkin, Aaron Belkin Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Associate Professor of Sociology at Hamline University Search for other works…
When is Strategic Bombing Effective? Domestic Legitimacy and Aerial Denial
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
T en years ago, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress, and much of the na- tion were swept up in a monumental debate on whether or not acknowledged gays and lesbians would be allowed to serve in the US military. Having promised in his campaign to extend this civil right to gays and lesbians, Clinton faced a difficult challenge when he attempted to fulfill his pledge, opposed as he was by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congre…
Toward a Structural Understanding of Coup Risk
Although coup risk plays an important role in theories of war, revolution, and democratization, scholars have not developed a rigorous conceptualization and valid measure of the concept. We develop a structural understanding of coup risk as distinct from proximate causes of coups as well as coup-proofing strategies that regimes implement to avert coups. Theoretical insights into factors that predispose regimes toward coup vulnerability provide th…
United We Stand?
Coup Risk, Counterbalancing, and International Conflict
Contrary to the literature on rallies-around-the-flag, this article argues that, in some circumstances, leaders may use international conflict to promote domestic divisiveness. More specifically, the threat of a military coup generally prompts leaders to divide their militaries (a practice known as counterbalancing), and even to engage in international conflict to ensure that various branches of their own armed forces remain distrustful of one an…
Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat
Based on a new Army War College study of unit cohesion in the Iraq War, Wong et al. argue that successful unit performance is determined by social cohesion (the strength of interpersonal bonds among members) rather than task cohesion (a sense of shared commitment to the unit's mission). If correct, these conclusions have important implications for scholarship as well as for numerous U.S. military policies such as the Unit Manning System. However,…
The Hollywood War Machine
Perhaps among the most perplexing aspects of the militarization of American culture is the way in which militarism has expanded at the same time that it has become so thoroughly normalized, unremar
Spam Filter
Research Article| January 01 2008 Spam Filter: Gay Rights and the Normalization of Male-Male Rape in the U.S. Military Aaron Belkin Aaron Belkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 180–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-029 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon…
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
This article asks what impact, if any, the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy might have on the U.S. military's reputation. Original empirical research is presented to suggest that the policy harms the military's reputation in four ways: the policy is inconsistent with public opinion, it prompts many journalists to criticize the armed forces while attracting almost no favorable media coverage, it provides a vehicle for antimilitary protesters to port…
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
T en years ago, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress, and much of the nation were swept up in a monumental debate on whether or not acknowledged gays and lesbians would be allowed to serve in the US military. Having promised in his campaign to extend this civil right to gays and lesbians, Clinton faced a difficult challenge when he attempted to fulfill his pledge, opposed as he was by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congress…
Militarized Masculinities and the Erasure of Violence
Conceptualizing the Civil-Military Gap
The authors suggest that scholars mean very different things when they refer to the civil-military gap. To illustrate the point, the authors conceptualize the gap in terms of four distinct ideal types and show that scholars have referred to each variant as the civil-military gap at different times. Though the authors recognize that the four ideal types-cultural, demographic, policy preference, and institutional-are not always mutually exclusive, …
The Politics of Paranoia
For almost 20 years, gay rights advocates and defenders of military anti-gay discrimination engaged in a phony debate about whether allowing open service would undermine unit cohesion. To be sure, a preponderance of evidence showed that open service would not undermine cohesion, and the repeal of don't ask, don't tell (DADT) required advocates to prevail on that point in the court of public opinion. But concerns about cohesion were never the basi…
Readiness and Dadt Repeal
Prior to the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual troops to serve openly would harm the military, and a group of more than 1,000 retired general and flag officers predicted that repeal could 'break the All-Volunteer Force.' This study is the first scholarly effort to assess the accuracy of such predictions about the impact of DADT repeal on military readin…
What is Critical Military Studies
e p t e d fo r p u blic a tio n.Cit a tio n fo r fin al p u blis h e d ve r sio n:B a s h a m , Victo ri a , B elki n, Aa r o n a n d Gifkin s, Je s s 2 0 1 5. W h a t is c ritic al m ilit a ry s t u di e s ?C ri tic al Milit a ry S t u di e s 1 (1) , p p .1-2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5. 1 0 0 6 8 7 9 P u blis h e r s p a g e : h t t p:// dx.d oi.o r g/ 1 0. 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5
Citizenship in Question
aCknowl EdgmEntSThis volume reflects impor tant collaborations beyond those of the coeditors, Benjamin Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, who first conceived of the project at a dinner party in Berkeley, California, in 2009.Comparing experiences outside academia, Lawrance as an expert witness and Stevens as an investigative journalist, they noted similarities in their encounters with people struggling to prove their identity and citizenship.Convers…
Trans in the United States military
This article is the proceedings of a symposium on the experience of trans people in the United States military and the advocacy to end the trans military ban. This symposium was co-sponsored by AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists, and took place at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. It featured speakers Amir Ahuja, a psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center; …
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
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