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Saints And Sainthood Around The Baltic Sea: Identity, Literacy, And Communication In The Middle Ages, Carsten Selch Jensen

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (more commonly referred to in the Middle Ages as Livonia). The articles cover a wide range of topics, for example the introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, the adaption of the cult of saints in …

Under The Power And Control, Chris Heaton

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Jesus has power over the spiritual realm of Satan, who is bound first through Jesus’s ministry and ultimately through his death and resurrection.

That my hearers may endure spiritual testing with full confidence of the victory won over Satan by Jesus, under whose power they are now under in baptism.

An Environmental No Man's Land: The Often Overlooked Consequences Of Armed Conflict On The Natural Environment, Evan Frauhiger

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Tracking Public Support For Japan's Remilitarization Policies: An Examination Of Elitist And Pluralist Governance, Cory S. Madison

Student Publications

Has Japan’s post-Second World War transformation into one of the most militarily capable nations been the result of 60 years of truly representative government? This research compares government-collected opinion polls to policy trends and actions, to determine whether the case of Japan’s remilitarization argues for or against the country’s democratic quality. For the purpose of this research, the size of Japan’s military and its legislative freedom to act as a more conventional military were considered the most pertinent militarization policies. Results indicated that those policies were consistently unjustified by measured opinion, suggesting elitist policy formation. However, other policy areas, such …

An Annotated List Of Fantasy Novels Incorporating Tarot (1968-1989) [Notes], Emily E. Auger

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

This selective list includes abstracts of each novel or series and how the author incorporates the Tarot or Tarot imagery.

Reckoning With Violence: Counterinsurgency, Prisons, And Gang Truces In Los Angeles And El Salvador 1979-2017, Sarah L. Knopp

History ETDs

Mara Salvatrucha is a street gang that developed organizationally in California's prisons in the 1980s and was exported to El Salvador beginning in 1992. Convicted felons were deported to their native El Salvador just as the Peace Accords brought an end to the twelve-year civil war. Most of these convicted felons had come to California as children during the civil war, and many had been present for the seminal gang truce in Los Angeles in 1992 and 1993. Some of those same gang members were also present during the gang truce negotiated in El Salvador in 2012. The latter truce …

Race Or Party, Race As Party, Or Party All The Time: Three Uneasy Approaches To Conjoined Polarization In Redistricting And Voting Cases, Richard L. Hasen

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Holding On/Letting Go: Situating Trauma And Memory In Theatrical Spaces, Caroline T. Graham

Theatre & Dance ETDs

In this essay, I review my development as a playwright in the MFA Dramatic Writing program and examine the shifting, overlapping goals of playwright-as-educator and playwright-as-entertainer. In Part One, I position my academic exploration of trauma in relation to ethics in journalism, embodied knowledge, and intersectional feminism and outline my creative experiments in staging trauma through the process of witnessing, retelling, and abstraction. In Part Two, I detail the artistic and personal roots of my dissertation play, The Great Maverick Adventure of 2007, and the structural and dramaturgical tools I employed to rebuild a sense of play and theatricality …

Sexual Violence Against Males In Armed Conflict: How State Masculinity Helps To Explain Its Occurrence, Jia Muyi Yang

Honors Projects

Sexual violence against male victims during armed conflict still remains largely under-researched. The small amount of research that does exist attributes the occurrence of such violence to the perpetrator’s desire to assert their own masculine power. However, claiming that sexual violence against males is perpetrated only to assert personal masculinity fails to explain the attempt of individual perpetrators to use sexual violence to feminize enemy communities during armed conflict. Instead, this essay argues that it is the state that embodies normative masculinity. The State as an ideational entity demands the defense and expansion of its normative masculinity during armed conflict. …

Mobilizing For War: The Political Economy Of American Warfare, 1865-1919, Saverio De Ruggiero

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Presidents Forum, Arthur K. Cebrowski

Naval War College Review

In the summer of 1998, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay L. Johnson, sent me here to Newport, along with Rear Admiral Bernard). Smith (as commander of the new Navy Warfare Development Command) and Rear Ad­ miral Peter A. C. Long (to be Provost of the Naval War College). He did that for important reasons. One was the sense that the Navy had lost its historic inclina­ tion to innov ate. This was not surprising: all very succe ful organizations with long histories of accomplishme nt, such as the U .S. Navy, have powerful immunologic systems, capable of repelling …

Failed States: Warlordism And "Tribal" Warfare, Susan L. Woodward

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Set And Drift, George Kasten

Naval War College Review

"Building a Beehive: Observations on the Transition to Network-cenrtic Operations"

Corbett, Clausewitz, And Sun Tzu, Michael I. Handel

Naval War College Review

Mahan integrates and synthesizes Jomini’s work with his own; Corbett uses Clausewitz’s On War as a heuristic point of departure. Mahan, in his own words, remains loyal to Jomini’s ideas. In contrast, Corbett, although inspired by On War, develops ideas different from and sometimes contradictory to those of Clausewitz.

The Right To Humanitarian Assistance, Yoram Dinstein

Naval War College Review

There is a growing demand in world opinion for extensions of the right to humanitarian assistance. That right is presently limited to the indispensable needs of civilian populations in times of armed conflict.

Complex Civil-Military Operations—A U.S. Military-Centric Perspective, John A. Gentry

Naval War College Review

U.S. military forces have not performed well in certain operations in recent years. The root cause of the problem is a mismatch between the demands of such operations and the organization, doctrine, and even culture of the units assigned to perform them.

Alternatives Futures In War And Conflict, Michael Renner

Naval War College Review

The violence of many contemporary armed struggles is not an expression of clear political or military objectives but instead a manifestation of the chaos ensuing from state failure. Traditional military conceptions of war do not apply in that situation.

Through A Glass, Darkly, Martin Van Creveld

Naval War College Review

Confronted with its own supreme product, nuclear weapons, large-scale interstate war as a phenomenon is slowly but surely being squeezed below the historical horizon. What will arise in its place?

President’S Forum, Arthur K. Cebrowski

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

A Correlation Study Of Perceived Servant Leadership Practices And Job Satisfaction Among Teachers In A Military Foreign Language Center, Saliha Murtic

Dissertations

Purpose: This correlation study determined the relationship between the level of servant-leadership practices of department chairs perceived by their foreign language teachers and the level of those same teachers’ job satisfaction within the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey, CA.

Methodology: The study employed a quantitative method using descriptive and inferential statistical tests to answer the research questions. The sample population included 165 foreign language classroom teachers within the undergraduate basic language training at the DLIFLC. The data were collected through the Servant Leadership Questionnaire (Barbuto and Wheeler, 2006) and the Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (Lester, 1982). …

Irish Journalists And Journalism During The American Civil War, Michael Foley

Conference Papers

Irish journalists played a significant role in the lead up to the US Civil War in ensuring the Irish population supported the Union and volunteered for the army.

Painting A Unique Perspective About Violence In Contemporary Visual Arts, Catherine Gallagher

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

My Distinction Thesis essay considers how the bodies of works of contemporary visual artists Judy Chicago, Marc Quinn, Kara Walker, and myself could be considered violent and/or graphic. Each artist works in a different medium, bringing their own unique perspective to these illustrations. When analyzing these artists, I found it imperative to consider the aestheticization of violent visual art, and how these artists challenge our traditional idea of what ‘fine art’ is. Particularly, what draws the viewer to look at this art and consider it beautiful or ugly? Also, having a clear definition of what violent and/or graphic art is …

Haa Dachx̱ÁnxʼI Sáani Kagéiyi Yís: Haa Yoo X̱ʼAtángi Kei Naltseen, X̲ʼUnei Lance Twitchell

Faculty, Staff, and Students

The Tlingit language has experienced drastic losses over the past two decades in terms of total number of speakers and places where the language is used. This steady decline in speakers was drastically accelerated as the last generation who grew up in a time when Tlingit was the primary language of homes and communities reach their sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. The youngest first language speakers are in their 60s, although most of them are in their eighties because intergenerational transmission severely declined in the second half of the 1900s, and has only recently returned with a few families who …

Chinese Bioethics And The Implications In Future Warfare, Emily Turner

Student Research Symposium

Proposal: Use the cultural topography analytic framework to examine the bioethics of the scientific community in China. Apply this cultural analysis to determine the mpresentation guidelines and paradigms with which they approach emergent innovations in the biosphere and their applications to warfare, specifically manipulation of the human genome through embryonic gene editing (CRISPR) and applications to targeting and weapons systems. Identify aspects of the Chinese scientific community’s ethical standard that diverge from U.S. and international norms which will pose a threat to U.S. national security.

Whom The Gods Would Destroy, Robert D. Critchlow

Naval War College Review

The ability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal to deter and compel smaller WMD-owning adversaries is growing smaller; an alternative strategy is required. Information warfare can provide that alternative.

Network Centric Warfare: Developing And Leveraging Information Superiority, Michael C. Fowler, David S. Alberts, John J. Garstka, Frederick P. Stein

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Review Essay—Don't Techno For An Answer: The False Promise Of Information Warfare, Brent Stuart Goodwin

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Review Of "A Lakota War Book From The Little Bighorn: The Pictographic "Autobiography Of Half Moon"", Rowena Mcclinton

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of "The Long Road To Antietam: How The Civil War Became A Revolution", Stephen Hansen

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

No abstract provided.

Lewin Of Greenwich: The Authorised Biography Of Admiral Of The Fleet Lord Lewin, Tony Johnstone-Burt Obe, Richard Hill

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.