The Current German Debate On The Role Of Force

Author : Deron R. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1423568885

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The Current German Debate on the Role of Force by Deron R. Jackson Pdf

American policy makers must understand the fundamental limitations on what Germany can be expected to contribute in future NATO operations such as the peace implementation mission currently underway in Bosnia. This paper will therefore analyze the deep divisions which exist within Germany regarding the role of force in international relations. The first section concerns the influence of history, law, and military practice that have shaped current attitudes toward military power and the role of the armed forces in a democratic society. This is followed by an analysis of the positions of the major German political parties across the spectrum from Right to Left. Next, specific trends are identified which are working to force Germany toward a decision in favor of professionalizing its armed services. Finally, the impact of the gradual evolution of Germany's view of the role of force on its relations with the United States and the European Union is considered.

Author : Frank Stengel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132218

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The Politics of Military Force by Frank Stengel Pdf

The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered by German policymakers to be without alternative. The book argues that an understanding of how certain policies are made possible (in this case, military operations abroad and force transformation), one needs to focus on processes of discursive change that result in different policy options appearing rational, appropriate, feasible, or even self-evident. Drawing on Essex School discourse theory, the book develops a theoretical framework to understand how discursive change works, and elaborates on how discursive change makes once unthinkable policy options not only acceptable but even without alternative. Based on a detailed discourse analysis of more than 25 years of German parliamentary debates, The Politics of Military Force provides an explanation for: (1) the emergence of a new hegemonic discourse in German security policy after the end of the Cold War (discursive change), (2) the rearticulation of German antimilitarism in the process (ideational change/norm erosion) and (3) the resulting making-possible of military operations and force transformation (policy change). In doing so, the book also demonstrates the added value of a poststructuralist approach compared to the naive realism and linear conceptions of norm change so prominent in the study of German foreign policy and International Relations more generally.

Author : Fritz Fischer
Publisher : New York : W. W. Norton
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015000213051

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Germany's Aims in the First World War by Fritz Fischer Pdf

This professor's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly the most controversial book to come out of Germany since the war. It had already forced the revision of widely held views in Germany's responsibility for beginning and continuing World War 1, and of supposed divergence of aim between business and the military on one side and labor and intellectuals on the other.

Author : Heinrich Hubsch
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892361991

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In What Style Should We Build? by Heinrich Hubsch Pdf

Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.

Author : Stuart Taberner,Paul Cooke
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133380

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German Culture, Politics, and Literature Into the Twenty-first Century by Stuart Taberner,Paul Cooke Pdf

This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany's self-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major study in English or German of the impact of the normalization debate across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst, Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen, William Collins, Donahue, Katharine Schödel, Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.

Author : James Dobbins,Ian O. Lesser,Peter Chalk
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833034861

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America's Role in Nation-Building by James Dobbins,Ian O. Lesser,Peter Chalk Pdf

The post-World War II occupations of Germany and Japan set standards for postconflict nation-building that have not since been matched. Only in recent years has the United States has felt the need to participate in similar transformations, but it is now facing one of the most challenging prospects since the 1940s: Iraq. The authors review seven case studies--Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--and seek lessons about what worked well and what did not. Then, they examine the Iraq situation in light of these lessons. Success in Iraq will require an extensive commitment of financial, military, and political resources for a long time. The United States cannot afford to contemplate early exit strategies and cannot afford to leave the job half completed.

Author : Isabel Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825658

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Unlikely Diplomats by Isabel Campbell Pdf

In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented personnel policies that permanently changed the distribution of the defence budget and the character of the Canadian Army. This original account of the evolution of the Canadian Army from a small training cadre to a truly national force offers a new perspective on military policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era.

Author : Heiko Biehl,Bastian Giegerich,Alexandra Jonas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658011680

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Strategic Cultures in Europe by Heiko Biehl,Bastian Giegerich,Alexandra Jonas Pdf

European countries work together in crisis management, conflict prevention and many other aspects of security and defence policy. Closer cooperation in this policy arena seems to be the only viable way forward to address contemporary security challenges. Yet, despite the repeated interaction, fundamental assumptions about security and defence remain remarkably distinct across European nations. This book offers a comparative analysis of the security and defence policies of all 27 EU member states and Turkey, drawing on the concept of ‘strategic culture’, in order to examine the chances and obstacles for closer security and defence cooperation across the continent. Along the lines of a consistent analytical framework, international experts provide case studies of the current security and defence policies in Europe as well as their historical and cultural roots. ​

Author : Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307426239

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Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Pdf

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252095153

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Demilitarization in the Contemporary World by Peter N. Stearns Pdf

Contemporary world history has highlighted militarization in many ways, from the global Cold War and numerous regional conflicts to the general assumption that nationhood implies a significant and growing military. Yet the twentieth century also offers notable examples of large-scale demilitarization, both imposed and voluntary. Demilitarization in the Contemporary World fills a key gap in current historical understanding by examining demilitarization programs in Germany, Japan, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. In nine insightful chapters, this volume's contributors outline each nation's demilitarization choices and how they were made. They investigate factors such as military defeat, border security risks, economic pressures, and the development of strong peace cultures among citizenry. Also at center stage is the influence of the United States, which fills a paradoxical role as both an enabler of demilitarization and a leader in steadily accelerating militarization. Bookended by Peter N. Stearns' thought-provoking historical introduction and forward-looking conclusion, the chapters in this volume explore what true demilitarization means and how it impacts a society at all levels, military and civilian, political and private. The examples chosen reveal that successful demilitarization must go beyond mere troop demobilization or arms reduction to generate significant political and even psychological shifts in the culture at large. Exemplifying the political difficulties of demilitarization in both its failures and successes, Demilitarization in the Contemporary World provides a possible roadmap for future policies and practices.

Author : Bastian Giegerich,Maximilian Terhalle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000472509

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The Responsibility to Defend by Bastian Giegerich,Maximilian Terhalle Pdf

The rise or resurgence of revisionist, repressive and authoritarian powers threatens the Western, US-led international order upon which Germany’s post-war security and prosperity were founded. With Washington increasingly focused on China’s rise in Asia, Europe must be able to defend itself against Russia, and will depend upon German military capabilities to do so. Years of neglect and structural underfunding, however, have hollowed out Germany’s armed forces. Much of the political leadership in Berlin has not yet adjusted to new realities or appreciated the urgency with which it needs to do so. Bastian Giegerich and Maximilian Terhalle argue that Germany’s current strategic culture is inadequate. It informs a security policy that fails to meet contemporary strategic challenges, thereby endangering Berlin’s European allies, the Western order and Germany itself. They contend that: Germany should embrace its historic responsibility to defend Western liberal values and the Western order that upholds them. Rather than rejecting the use of military force, Germany should wed its commitment to liberal values to an understanding of the role of power – including military power – in international affairs. The authors show why Germany should seek to foster a strategic culture that would be compatible with those of other leading Western nations and allow Germans to perceive the world through a strategic lens. In doing so, they also outline possible elements of a new security policy.

Author : Jürgen Kuhlmann,Jean M. Callaghan
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0765800624

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Military and Society in 21st Century Europe by Jürgen Kuhlmann,Jean M. Callaghan Pdf

This outstanding compendium of articles on Europe's militarysituation as we enter the new millennium has been compiled under the aegis of the GeorgeMarshall European Center for Security Studies. The leading analysts of military studies in everymajor nation of Europe are included, along with three overview pieces that set the tone andcontent for this nicely integrated volume. The opening pieces, by Martin Shaw on the evolutionof a "common risk" society, Christopher Dandeker on the military indemocratic societies, and Wilfried von Bredow on the re-nationaliation of military strategy setthe tone for the work as a whole. Althoughthe Cold War is now a decade removed from the new Europe, the challenges of transition to newdefense systems and institutional structures still confront those who plan the future for themilitary establishments of Europe. The individual country studies contained in this volume, aswell as the final analysis of the trends and probable future developments in Europe, should berequired reading throughout the national security structure, for politicians and decision makersseeking to understand the dilemmas facing European militaries and the societies they defend. The country chapters cover a wide range ofnations. Jean Callaghan examines the Bulgarian armed forces after its 1997 elections. MarieVlachova and Stefan Sarvas review civil-military relations in the Cech nation. Jano Sabo studiesthe role of the defense sector in Hungary. Adriana Stanescu sees Romania as a case of delayedmoderniation. Paul Klein and Jurgen Kuhlmann review the German armed forces in the context of apeace dividend. Bernard Boene and Didier Danet consider France in the light of the post draftsituation. Marina Nuciari and Giuseppe Caforio consider the Italian military in a democraticcontext. Finally, Jan van der Meulen and his colleagues, look upon the Netherlands military as acase study in post-moderniation. The final contribution is a summary report by the editors onthe lessons that have been learned in assessing the contemporary civil-military complex. In all,this is a state of the art volume on the state of the armed forces in Europe.

Author : Jack L. Snyder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Limited war
ISBN : IND:39000002755226

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The Soviet Strategic Culture by Jack L. Snyder Pdf

Author : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yurdagül MERAL,PhD. Faculty Member Mubashar Hassan ZIA,PhD. Faculty Member Muhammet Yunus Şisman
Publisher : Hiperlink eğit.ilet.yay.san.tic.ve ltd.sti.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786257280808

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Current Debates in Social Sciences InTraders 2020-3 by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yurdagül MERAL,PhD. Faculty Member Mubashar Hassan ZIA,PhD. Faculty Member Muhammet Yunus Şisman Pdf

Economic growth is a key issue both in economic policy making and in economic research. In eastern nations of the world, the interest in economic growth has been in the centrestage in view of the persistently high rates of unemployment and resurgence of recessionary pressures on these economies due to spillover effects from other developed economies undergoing recessionary phases. Entrepreneurial activities not only open up new doorways of income generation for individuals residing in the economy but is also looked upon now as panacea to treat unemployment by most governments, provided such ventures turn out to be revenue generating for the entrepreneur after all the risk he is willing to undertake. Entrepreneurship contributes to the development of innovative technologies, processes as well as business systems which in turn influences the prevailing market structures in the economy disrupting the competition existing in the markets. Nonetheless it bound to impact the capital formation in the economy and thus the growth of the economy. The inter relations between credit extension by commercial banks, entrepreneurship and economic growth are investigated in this paper empirically using autoregressive models.

Author : Övgü Kalkan Küçüksolakj,Abdullah Muhsin Yıldız
Publisher : IJOPEC
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912503360

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Current Debates in International Relations & Law by Övgü Kalkan Küçüksolakj,Abdullah Muhsin Yıldız Pdf

We live in an era of constant change, in where the interactions and transactions of multiplying number of actors take place in diversifying forms with a superhuman tempo and thus makes it difficult to navigate in the stormy agenda of international relations and law. Increasing interdependence and interconnectedness promote not only new channels of opportunities but also breed the grounds for escalating challenges and threats. Despite the fact that increasing vulnerabilities and complexities necessitate comprehensive and collaborative policies by the actors, forces of uncertainty heavily dominate strategic thinking. Transformations take place in this environment of uncertainty and thus raises infinite number of questions in the minds of researchers regarding the future of global society. In this study, scholars analyze key topics of international relations and law with the aim of offering useful insights on the nature and the possible long term consequences of the issues. It combines contributions on concepts and several controversial issues with a comprehensive approach to understand emerging dynamics in international relations and law.