Contents:
  • Historical and sociological perspectives
  • Introduction / Peter N. Stearns
  • Demilitarization: unraveling the structures of violence / Andrew Bickford
  • Germany
  • The demilitarization of Germany, 1945-2010 / Jay Lockenour
  • Peace movements and the demilitarization of German political culture, 1970s-1980s / Holger Nehring
  • Japan and comparative aftermath
  • U.S. strategic preference for securing military bases and impact of Japanese financial community on constrained rearmament in Japan, 1945-1954 / Yoneyuki Sugita
  • From demilitarization to remilitarization: external and internal pressures on Japanese security policy / Glenn D. Hook
  • Japanese remilitarization and constitutional revision / Christopher Hughes
  • Demilitarization and democratization in the post-World War II world / Stephanie Trombley Averill
  • Central America
  • Costa Rica and Honduras: demilitarization as choice / Kirk Bowman
  • Demilitarization after Central American civil wars / J. Mark Ruhl and Philip J. Williams
  • Afterword / Peter N. Stearns.