ONCE AGAIN AVAILABLE: Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR The Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR (Routledge/Taylor and Francis) is generating excitement throughout the world as the definitive publication on the sources of collective forms of violence (including genocide and terrorism). We have reprinted copies of this important issue in order to make it available once again to researchers and teachers. For information on how to <https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/> obtain a copy of the Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, PLEASE CLICK HERE. Articles included in the issue-as well as brief excerpts from a few of them-are described below. Please order ASAP to make certain you obtain your copy of this groundbreaking publication. With best regards, Orion Anderson P. S. A number of faculty have selected this issue as a text for courses on peace studies, warfare, terrorism, violence in society and history, etc. _____ ARTICLES INCLUDE: MEMORIALIZATION AND THE SELLING OF WAR, Deborah D. Buffton, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. "War is so closely connected with the identity of nations that participation in war is a necessary action to show one's devotion to the country; a society cannot consider itself 'alive' if its citizens are not willing to die for it. Fighting and dying for one's country become the means through which a society is 'resurrected'." HUMILIATION AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, Paul Saurette, Assistant Professor School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. "Once we understand 9/11 as fundamentally humiliating and not just threatening the United States-we can make better sense of the elements of the global war on terror. A legal approach would never have been accepted, even if international laws were reliable and effective enough to pursue al-Qaeda. Why? Although courts promise to provide justice, they rarely explicitly deliver vengeance and counter-humiliation." DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION IN POSTMODERN WAR IMAGERY, Myra Mendible, Associate Professor of American Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. "Humiliation is one of the techniques through which institutions and nations construct docile and disciplined bodies. The rigorous and often painful physical trials, the drill sergeant hollering insults, separate those worthy of the warrior's honor from the ones that carry "the virus of weakness." In forging a marine corps-a military body defined by strength and hardness, the soldier extirpates any trace of the feminine. Discipline begins with self-abnegation; absolute surrender to the authority of the stern father figure who punishes and rewards." <https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/> For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE. SACRIFICE, TRANSCENDENCE AND THE SOLDIER, Babak Rahimi, Assistant Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California at San Diego. "The soldier's experience in believing that he is dying for something greater than himself, for something that will outlast his individual, perishable life in place of a greater, eternal vitality (embodied in the national or a religious identity) is crucial for the ideological justification of war." GROUP PSYCHOLOGY, SACRIFICE AND WAR, Norman Steinhart, M.D., Research Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS WILL TO SACRIFICE, Patrick Porter, Tutor in Modern History at the University of Oxford THE MYTHOLOGY OF WAR, Dr. Andrew Robinson, Political theorist, University of Nottingham THE MANIC ECSTASY OF WAR, Wendy C. Hamblet, Professor of Philosophy, Adelphi University, New York GUILT AND SACRIFICE IN U.S. WARFARE, Carl Mirra, American Studies at SUNY College, Old Westbury <https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/> For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE. MALE GENDER INSTABILITY AND WAR, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University COMBAT MOTIVATION, Johan M.G. van der Dennen, senior researcher on war and peace at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands For further information please contact Orion Anderson at (718) 393-1104 or send an email to <mailto:oanderson@ideologiesofwar.com> oanderson@ideologiesofwar.com _____