Sex and the Greatest Generation

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Shannon L. Fogg
Keyword(s):  
Greatest Generation

Arsenal of the Global South: Yugoslavia’s Military Aid to Nonaligned Countries and Liberation Movements

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Milorad Lazic
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Global South ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Military Aid ◽  
Greatest Generation ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Ardent Supporter

Abstract Yugoslavia’s military internationalism was one of the most practical expressions of the country’s policy of nonalignment. Beginning with Algeria in the 1950s until its demise in the 1990s, Yugoslavia was an ardent supporter of liberation movements and revolutionary governments in Africa and Asia. This article argues that Yugoslav military internationalism was at the heart of Yugoslavia’s efforts to reshape the post-1945 global order and represented an extension of Yugoslav revolution abroad. Military aid was an expression of personal identification of Yugoslavia’s “greatest generation” with decolonization struggle. However, Yugoslav military aid to other countries went beyond a single foreign policy issue. Yugoslav military internationalism touched upon many other issues that included problems related to finances, economic development, the acquisition and transfer of military technology, relations with the superpowers, national security, ideology and politics, and prestige and status in global affairs. By the end of the 1970s, with the departure of the World War II generation and the looming economic crisis, Yugoslav military involvement in the Global South became increasingly driven by economic reasons. Former Yugoslav republics, after a short hiatus in the 1990s during the wars for Yugoslavia’s succession, are still present in the arms trade in the Global South.

Greatest Generation

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
A. J. Angulo
Keyword(s):  
Greatest Generation

Greatest Generation

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Katherine Scott Sturdevant
Keyword(s):  
Greatest Generation

scholarly journals A New Look at Cohort Trend and Underlying Mechanisms in Cognitive Functioning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Summary Score ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Greatest Generation ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Abstract Objectives The prevalence of dementia in the United States seems to have declined over the last few decades. We investigate trends and their underlying mechanisms in cognitive functioning (CF) across 7 decades of birth cohorts from the Greatest Generation to Baby Boomers. Methods Data come from 30,191 participants of the 1996–2014 Health and Retirement Study. CF is measured as a summary score on a 35-point cognitive battery of items. We use generalized linear models to examine the trends in CF and explanatory variables across birth cohorts. Then, Karlson–Holm–Breen decomposition method is used to evaluate the contribution of each explanatory variable to the trend of CF. Results CF has been improving from the Greatest Generation to Late Children of Depression and War Babies, but then significantly declines since the Early-Baby Boomers and continues into Mid-Baby Boomers. This pattern is observed universally across genders, race/ethnicities, education groups, occupations, income, and wealth quartiles. The worsening CF among Baby Boomers does not originate from childhood conditions, adult education, or occupation. It can be attributed to lower household wealth, lower likelihood of marriage, higher levels of loneliness, depression and psychiatric problems, and more cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., obesity, physical inactivity, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, and heart disease). Discussion The worsening CF among Baby Boomers may potentially reverse past favorable trends in dementia as they reach older ages and cognitive impairment becomes more common if no effective interventions and policy responses are in place.

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