Preface / Gwyn Harries-Jenkins and Jacques van Doorn; Editorial Introduction / Gwyn Harries-Jenkins and Jacques van Doorn. 1 The Military and the Crisis of Legitimacy / Jacques van Doorn; 2 Legitimacy and the Problem of Order / Gwyn Harries-Jenkins; 3 The Legitimacy Problem in Latin Europe / John Brown; 4. Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies / Morris Janowitz; 5. The Role of Mass Communication in the Political Socialization of the Hungarian Armed Forces / Emil Nagy; 6 Greek Service Academies: Patterns of Recruitment and Organizational Change / George A Kourvetaris; 7 Civil-Military Relations in the Mass Public / David R Segal; 8 Normative Linkages between Civilian and Military Sectors of Polish Society / Mieczyslav Michalik; 9 Retired Officers in Israel and the Emergence of a New Elite / Yoram Peri and Moshe Lissak; 10 Conscript Unionism in the Dutch Army / Ger Teitler.