...Since the passage of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” the United States has been involved in a number of military conflicts around the world, including the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, and Somalia. Gays and lesbians have been part of the American military forces deployed during these conflicts...

... media access and political opposition. Across a variety of indicators of conflict, states with media and political institutions that facilitate the flow of information between leaders and the public are less prone to initiate military conflicts. These findings suggest not only an underlying mechanism...

...This chapter examines the resilience of palliative care providers working in resource-poor settings. Health professional working in these areas face many challenges including the negative impact of globalization, political and military conflicts, and environmental hazards. This chapter investigates...

...This chapter discusses the three main contexts for heroic failure in nineteenth-century Britain: military conflicts in Asia and Africa, the exploration of Africa, and the search for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic. It begins with an analysis of the ability of death in warfare to create a hero...

...This chapter examines the effects of party systems and media access on public attitudes and government decisions regarding coalition joining in the periods leading up to and immediately following the initiations of two distinct multinational military conflicts: Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq...

...This chapter is devoted to the initiation of expatriation laws in the United States. Since the Civil War, U.S. policies have fluctuated between different (and sometimes opposing) principles and forms of expatriation, for example, revocation as punishment, revocation during military conflicts...

.... 28, 405. This chapter investigates the extent to which traditional representations of warfare were reinforced or contradicted by the varied reporting of modern military conflicts after 1815. Warfare, it seemed from a reading of the press, was changing by the mid-nineteenth century, becoming more...