Donald Alexander Downs

Arms and the University (eBook, PDF)

Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students

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Produktbeschreibung

Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the 'citizen soldier'. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of this alienation, as well as recent efforts to restore a closer relationship between the military and the university. Through theoretical and empirical analysis, Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili show how a military presence on campus in the form of ROTC (including a case study of ROTC's return to Columbia and Harvard universities), military history and national security studies can enhance the civic and liberal education of non-military students, and in the process help to bridge the civil-military gap.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139334587
• Artikelnr.: 38277103

Autorenporträt

Donald Alexander Downs is Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of five books: Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment; The New Politics of Pornography; More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law; Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University; and Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. He is the co-founder and director of the Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin and a frequent contributor to local, state, national and international media.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A Normative and Pedagogical Framework: 1. The closing of the
university mind: the military/university gap and the problem of civic and
liberal education; 2. Education in the regime: how a military presence can
enhance civic and liberal education; Part II. ROTC and the University: 3.
ROTC and the university: an introduction; 4. ROTC and the Ivies: before the
storm; 5. ROTC and the Ivies: the divorce; 6. ROTC, Columbia, and the Ivy
League: Sisyphus renews his quest to renew a troubled relationship; 7.
Post-DADT: Sisyphus nears the top of the mountain; 8. Pedagogy and military
presence: the educational influence of student-soldiers in their own words;
9. Winning hearts and minds?: The consequences of military presence for
non-military students; Part III. Military History Examined: 10. Military
history: an endangered or protected species?; 11. Half empty or half full?:
Military historians' perspectives on the status of military history and the
leading departments; 12. Military presence in security studies: political
realism (re)considered; 13. Security studies in the wake of the Cold War
university: paragons of productive fiction, or throwing the baby out with
the bathwater?; Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 14. Conclusion: placing the
military in the university.