Miles D Wolpin
Biographic Data
| ID | 251178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miles D Wolpin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miles D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolpin |
| SIGNATURE | WOLPIN M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Potsdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Military professionals and the peace movement
One of the frequently ignored lessons of Vietnam was the prominent role played not only by G.I.s in the resistance, but also by disaffected commissioned officers. Because of their patriotic and professional credibility, the latter contributed disproportionately to broadening anti‐interventionist support among attentive public and opinion leaders. The importance of attracting such catalysts of peace movement appeal in the late 1990s is underscored…
Diminishing the appeal of “retail” terrorism
Like other idealists, many peace advocates optimistically assumed that ending Cold War rivalries would yield major benefits beyond reducing the risks of global nuclear war. They expected not only significant “peace dividends” to be diverted to social needs but also an end to low intensity “proxy” wars and other civil violence such as “wholesale” (state) and “retail” (small group) terrorism. An irresistible wave of democracy would sweep over the S…
Third World Military Roles and Environmental Security
Book Notes
Third World Repression
The Real Terrorists
Review of The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward S. Herman.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Sociopolitical Radicalism and Military Professionalism in the Third World
One of the few areas in which there is an apparent consensus among civilmilitary relations analysts and Marxists for that matter is the politics of the military. It is a widely observed phenomenon (not limited to the Third World) that officers, to the extent that they take an interest in civilian politics, generally share an aversion to radical leftist students, politicians, intellectuals, and trade union agitators. Political conservatism and cul…
Comparative Perspectives on Militarization, Repression and Social Welfare
The focus of this article is upon the costs of high military burdens and militarization. While the primary concern is with the Third World, this analysis also considers costs to advanced capitalist as well as state socialist systems. The work synthesizes findings by more than three dozen researchers, many of whom have published comparative or case studies of substitution effects of military expenditures in socio-economic areas. Particular attenti…
Militarism and Social Revolution in the Third World
Contemporary Radical Third World Regimes
Military Radicalism in Latin America
Analyses of military roles in Latin America during the two decades following World War II often assumed the military were both isolated or apart from politics, and hence amenable to civilian control. The resurgence of militarism since the early Sixties has been reflected in scholarly works reassessing these assumptions. Whereas the pioneers in this field, such as Lieuwen (1964) and Needier (1969), are clearly civilianist-reflecting a democratic a…
Legitimising State Capitalism
Although the analysis which follows centres upon the West African state of Mali, much of what is said applies in varying measure to other examples of military state capitalism in Africa and elsewhere. Its importance is underscored by the fact that this is an increasingly common régime variant in the Third World. Similarly, domestic militarism has been transformed from an unusual occurrence to a phenomenon which evokes little more than a déjà vu r…
Marx and Radical Militarism in the Developing Nations
Egalitarian Reformism in the Third World vs The Military
Patterns of civil-military relations associated with ten deposed reformist regime are delineated. The case studies were selected because of their historical prominence and the consequent availability of information. They consist of: Iran's Mossadegh (1953), Guatemala's Arbenz (1954), the Dominican Republic's Bosch 1962), Brazil's Goulart (1964), Indonesia's Sukarno (1965), Ghana's Nkrumah (1966), Mali's Keita (1968), Cambodia's Sihanouk (1970), B…
Military Technology Transfers and Third World Development Strategies
Cuban Political Science in the Seventies
(1975). Cuban Political Science in the Seventies: Some Observations. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 20-34
Dependency and Conservative Militarism in Mali
Those with an interest in developing a predictive theory of social revolution cannot afford to ignore the numerous corpses in what I shall call the Graveyard of Marxist Executives. For many this is a cemetery of aspirations, while in a small number of instances counter-revolutionary terror has occasioned a veritable bloodbath. What makes this study worth-while is that in all cases the right to a decent life for future generations has been aborted…
Cuban Political Science in the Seventies
External political socialization as a source of conservative military behavior in the third world
The Trans-National Appeal of the Cuban Revolution
The Trans-National Appeal of the Cuban Revolution: Chile, 1958–1970." Caribbean Quarterly, 19(1), p. 7
Systemic Constraints and Chilean Socialism in Comparative Perspective
American Imperialism
L'impérialisme américain
Stereotypes in U.S. - Latin Relations
Dependency and Conservative Militarism in Mali
Those with an interest in developing a predictive theory of social revolution cannot afford to ignore the numerous corpses in what I shall call the Graveyard of Marxist Executives. For many this is a cemetery of aspirations, while in a small number of instances counter-revolutionary terror has occasioned a veritable bloodbath. What makes this study worth-while is that in all cases the right to a decent life for future generations has been aborted…
Legitimising State Capitalism
Although the analysis which follows centres upon the West African state of Mali, much of what is said applies in varying measure to other examples of military state capitalism in Africa and elsewhere. Its importance is underscored by the fact that this is an increasingly common régime variant in the Third World. Similarly, domestic militarism has been transformed from an unusual occurrence to a phenomenon which evokes little more than a déjà vu r…
Sociopolitical Radicalism and Military Professionalism in the Third World
One of the few areas in which there is an apparent consensus among civilmilitary relations analysts and Marxists for that matter is the politics of the military. It is a widely observed phenomenon (not limited to the Third World) that officers, to the extent that they take an interest in civilian politics, generally share an aversion to radical leftist students, politicians, intellectuals, and trade union agitators. Political conservatism and cul…
Comparative Perspectives on Militarization, Repression and Social Welfare
The focus of this article is upon the costs of high military burdens and militarization. While the primary concern is with the Third World, this analysis also considers costs to advanced capitalist as well as state socialist systems. The work synthesizes findings by more than three dozen researchers, many of whom have published comparative or case studies of substitution effects of military expenditures in socio-economic areas. Particular attenti…
Military Radicalism in Latin America
Analyses of military roles in Latin America during the two decades following World War II often assumed the military were both isolated or apart from politics, and hence amenable to civilian control. The resurgence of militarism since the early Sixties has been reflected in scholarly works reassessing these assumptions. Whereas the pioneers in this field, such as Lieuwen (1964) and Needier (1969), are clearly civilianist-reflecting a democratic a…
Egalitarian Reformism in the Third World vs The Military
Patterns of civil-military relations associated with ten deposed reformist regime are delineated. The case studies were selected because of their historical prominence and the consequent availability of information. They consist of: Iran's Mossadegh (1953), Guatemala's Arbenz (1954), the Dominican Republic's Bosch 1962), Brazil's Goulart (1964), Indonesia's Sukarno (1965), Ghana's Nkrumah (1966), Mali's Keita (1968), Cambodia's Sihanouk (1970), B…
Stereotypes in U.S. - Latin Relations
American Imperialism
L'impérialisme américain
External political socialization as a source of conservative military behavior in the third world
The Trans-National Appeal of the Cuban Revolution
The Trans-National Appeal of the Cuban Revolution: Chile, 1958–1970." Caribbean Quarterly, 19(1), p. 7
Systemic Constraints and Chilean Socialism in Comparative Perspective
Cuban Political Science in the Seventies
Cuban Political Science in the Seventies
(1975). Cuban Political Science in the Seventies: Some Observations. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 20-34
Dependency and Conservative Militarism in Mali
Those with an interest in developing a predictive theory of social revolution cannot afford to ignore the numerous corpses in what I shall call the Graveyard of Marxist Executives. For many this is a cemetery of aspirations, while in a small number of instances counter-revolutionary terror has occasioned a veritable bloodbath. What makes this study worth-while is that in all cases the right to a decent life for future generations has been aborted…
Military Technology Transfers and Third World Development Strategies
Marx and Radical Militarism in the Developing Nations
Egalitarian Reformism in the Third World vs The Military
Patterns of civil-military relations associated with ten deposed reformist regime are delineated. The case studies were selected because of their historical prominence and the consequent availability of information. They consist of: Iran's Mossadegh (1953), Guatemala's Arbenz (1954), the Dominican Republic's Bosch 1962), Brazil's Goulart (1964), Indonesia's Sukarno (1965), Ghana's Nkrumah (1966), Mali's Keita (1968), Cambodia's Sihanouk (1970), B…
Legitimising State Capitalism
Although the analysis which follows centres upon the West African state of Mali, much of what is said applies in varying measure to other examples of military state capitalism in Africa and elsewhere. Its importance is underscored by the fact that this is an increasingly common régime variant in the Third World. Similarly, domestic militarism has been transformed from an unusual occurrence to a phenomenon which evokes little more than a déjà vu r…
Contemporary Radical Third World Regimes
Military Radicalism in Latin America
Analyses of military roles in Latin America during the two decades following World War II often assumed the military were both isolated or apart from politics, and hence amenable to civilian control. The resurgence of militarism since the early Sixties has been reflected in scholarly works reassessing these assumptions. Whereas the pioneers in this field, such as Lieuwen (1964) and Needier (1969), are clearly civilianist-reflecting a democratic a…
The Real Terrorists
Review of The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward S. Herman.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Sociopolitical Radicalism and Military Professionalism in the Third World
One of the few areas in which there is an apparent consensus among civilmilitary relations analysts and Marxists for that matter is the politics of the military. It is a widely observed phenomenon (not limited to the Third World) that officers, to the extent that they take an interest in civilian politics, generally share an aversion to radical leftist students, politicians, intellectuals, and trade union agitators. Political conservatism and cul…
Comparative Perspectives on Militarization, Repression and Social Welfare
The focus of this article is upon the costs of high military burdens and militarization. While the primary concern is with the Third World, this analysis also considers costs to advanced capitalist as well as state socialist systems. The work synthesizes findings by more than three dozen researchers, many of whom have published comparative or case studies of substitution effects of military expenditures in socio-economic areas. Particular attenti…
Militarism and Social Revolution in the Third World
Third World Repression
Book Notes
Third World Military Roles and Environmental Security
Diminishing the appeal of “retail” terrorism
Like other idealists, many peace advocates optimistically assumed that ending Cold War rivalries would yield major benefits beyond reducing the risks of global nuclear war. They expected not only significant “peace dividends” to be diverted to social needs but also an end to low intensity “proxy” wars and other civil violence such as “wholesale” (state) and “retail” (small group) terrorism. An irresistible wave of democracy would sweep over the S…
Military professionals and the peace movement
One of the frequently ignored lessons of Vietnam was the prominent role played not only by G.I.s in the resistance, but also by disaffected commissioned officers. Because of their patriotic and professional credibility, the latter contributed disproportionately to broadening anti‐interventionist support among attentive public and opinion leaders. The importance of attracting such catalysts of peace movement appeal in the late 1990s is underscored…
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