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.
