The Changing Face Of European Conscription

Author : Pertti Joenniemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351893114

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The Changing Face of European Conscription by Pertti Joenniemi Pdf

Conscription is seen as forming a site and an issue-area around which different identities are struggled over and core political relations established in a security-related context. The unravelling of conscription thus unavoidably pertains to a set of essential ideational issues and has significance far beyond the military sphere. The contributors to this book explore the more profound issues such as the meaning of conscription in the context of the increasingly feeble relationship between the state and the nation. The analysis relates the question of changes or lack of change in recruitment to broader social, political and cultural issues, thereby breaking new ground. Attention not only focuses on what the military manpower systems do, but also on what they represent. As such, conscription has meaning far beyond the sphere of military affairs.

Author : Pertti Joenniemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351893121

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The Changing Face of European Conscription by Pertti Joenniemi Pdf

Conscription is seen as forming a site and an issue-area around which different identities are struggled over and core political relations established in a security-related context. The unravelling of conscription thus unavoidably pertains to a set of essential ideational issues and has significance far beyond the military sphere. The contributors to this book explore the more profound issues such as the meaning of conscription in the context of the increasingly feeble relationship between the state and the nation. The analysis relates the question of changes or lack of change in recruitment to broader social, political and cultural issues, thereby breaking new ground. Attention not only focuses on what the military manpower systems do, but also on what they represent. As such, conscription has meaning far beyond the sphere of military affairs.

Author : Annica Kronsell
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199846061

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Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defense by Annica Kronsell Pdf

From a feminist constructivist institutional approach the author explores how gender aspects and UN SCR 1325 has influenced the way that the post-national defense organizes its practices and the policies pursued.

Author : Elizabeth Shesko
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822987383

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Conscript Nation by Elizabeth Shesko Pdf

Military service in Bolivia has long been compulsory for young men. This service plays an important role in defining identity, citizenship, masculinity, state formation, and civil-military relations in twentieth-century Bolivia. The project of obligatory military service originated as part of an attempt to restrict the power of indigenous communities after the 1899 civil war. During the following century, administrations (from oligarchic to revolutionary) expressed faith in the power of the barracks to assimilate, shape, and educate the population. Drawing on a body of internal military records never before used by scholars, Elizabeth Shesko argues that conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. It not only was imposed from above but was also embraced from below because it provided a space for Bolivians across divides of education, ethnicity, and social class to negotiate their relationships with each other and with the state. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation. The resulting nation-state was and is still hierarchical and divided by profound differences, but it never was simply an assimilatory project. It instead reflected a dialectical process to define the state and its relationships.

Author : Anna Leander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135067892

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Commercialising Security in Europe by Anna Leander Pdf

This book examines the political consequences of European security commercialisation through increased reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs). The role of commercial security in the domestic setting in Europe is widely acknowledged; after all, the biggest private security company globally – G4S Group – has its roots in Scandinavia. However, the use of commercial security contracting by European states for military purposes in international settings is mostly held to be marginal. This book examines the implications of commercialisation for the peace and reconciliations strategies of European states, focussing specifically on European contracting in Afghanistan. Drawing upon examples from Scandinavia, Central Europe and Continental Europe, each chapter considers three key factors: the national contexts that give security contracting in Afghanistan its meaning; the national contracting practices; the political consequences for the operation in Afghanistan. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, global governance, peace and conflict studies, European politics, and IR in general.

Author : Jr. Schaub, Gary,Ryan Kelty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442260238

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Private Military and Security Contractors by Jr. Schaub, Gary,Ryan Kelty Pdf

A multinational team of scholars and experts address the issue of controlling the use of privatized forces by states. They address the role of contract employees, their acceptance by military personnel, and possible tensions between them.

Author : Kobi Michael,David Kellen,Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313365027

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The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations by Kobi Michael,David Kellen,Eyal Ben-Ari Pdf

With the end of the Cold War, the euphoria of the Gulf War of the 1990s and the avowal of a New World Order, peace-operations were declared as the recipe for a better world through international intervention in conflict arenas. However, the debacles and failures in Cambodia, Somalia, or the Balkans led to disillusionment and a sense of strategic helplessness among leaders, experts and scholars in the industrial democracies. While these arguments have been the focus of intense criticism and discussion, they nevertheless underscore the fact that since the end of the Cold War the armed forces of the industrial democracies have undergone very significant transformations. This is the first work linking the changes in armed forces to Peace Support Operations (PSOs), those operations with major state-building components that demand broad and coherent cooperation between military forces and civilian entities. The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations is timely as the recent debates over PSOs continue to take center stage. This work embodies a new set of ideas and concepts that aid in grasping and interpreting the transformations taking place in the world of war and in PSOs. It seeks to understand how social, economic, political, and organizational transformations around the globe are related to the complex links between armed forces and PSOs. Additionally, this work addresses issues that continue to define the character and makeup of modern warfare and the missions of PSOs for coming decades.

Author : Guiseppe Caforio,Gerhard Kummel,Bandara Purkayastha
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848551237

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Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution by Guiseppe Caforio,Gerhard Kummel,Bandara Purkayastha Pdf

Covers the various aspects of war in the twenty-first century where asymmetric warfare has changed many rules of the game, imposing a profound transformation on the military, not only tactical, but also structural, preparatory, mental and ideological. This book also covers the delicate relations between the armed forces and societies.

Author : Alexander S. Burns
Publisher : Helion
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915070384

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The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare by Alexander S. Burns Pdf

This book reflects on the historiographical contributions of world-renowned military historian Christopher Duffy. In 16 essays, the contributors continue Christopher's legacy of making first-rate historical research on eighteenth-century militaries accessible to the public.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1884 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066099196

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : John M. Merriman,J. M. Winter
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCSC:32106018862091

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Europe Since 1914 by John M. Merriman,J. M. Winter Pdf

Presents alphabetized articles on approximately eight hundred topics related to the history of Europe from the Bolshevik Revolution to the European Union, covering political, social, cultural, military, scientific, and economic aspects; and includes maps, a chronology, and illustrations.

Author : United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : International law
ISBN : IND:30000140004866

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Bibliographie Mensuelle by United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland) Pdf

Author : Elias Bredsdorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Scandinavia
ISBN : IND:30000115547212

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Scandinavica by Elias Bredsdorff Pdf

Author : Vernon V. Aspaturian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009100101

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The Changing Face of Communism in Eastern Europe by Vernon V. Aspaturian Pdf

One hundred one riddles include old favorites and new puzzles. Full-page, color illustrations provide clues.

Author : Martin Van Creveld
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780891419020

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The Changing Face of War by Martin Van Creveld Pdf

A provocative look at how war has changed over the course of the past century reveals how twentieth-century warfare evolved from its historical predecessors, as well as what terrorism and other modern-day phenomena mean in terms of the future of war. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.