Vol. 27, No. 4 (2000)

This issue makes practical links between U.S. domestic and foreign policy, with articles on most crucial regions of the world and an emphasis on the work of activists. With U.S. military spending already exceeding the military budgets of the next 12 countries combined, communities around the world and in the U.S. are negatively affected by bases, operations, and skewed budgetary priorities.

Part I covers demilitarization and other transnational concerns, from the WTO, controlling and reducing arms proliferation, supporting border communities and migrant workers, and building cooperative political organizations, to redirecting investment to meet human needs. Part II includes documents concerned with demilitarization and positive visions of sustainability and genuine global security, one based on sustainable environmental and economic principles, accountable political systems, and sturdy connections among people that acknowledge and transcend identities and territories.

This volume examines the intersectionality of gender, race, class, and nation, as well as the historical and contemporary interconnections among economic domination, militarism, colonization, and imperialism. The editors are particularly concerned with how militarism -- a profoundly masculinist institution, although varying somewhat from nation to nation -- affects women and draws on deep-seated patriarchal assumptions about women's roles, capabilities, and sexuality.