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Democratic Civil-Military Relations : Soldiering in 21st-Century Europe.
This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering. In the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken : Francis,
Taylor & amp ;
2012.
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| Colección: | Cass military studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Soldiering in 21st Century Europe; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; Conceptualizations of the democratic soldier in twenty-first century Europe: Competing norms and practical tensions; Part II Case studies on traditional democracies; 1 The Swiss citizen-soldier: A contested tradition; 2 The ideal type of the democraticsoldier in Britain; Part III Case studies on consolidated post-authoritarian democracies; 3 The German Bundeswehr soldierbetween constitutional settingsand current tasks.
- 4 The image of the Spanish soldierafter the transition to democracyPart IV Case studies on post-socialist democracies; 5 Model and reality of thedemocratic soldier in the CzechRepublic; 6 The ongoing transformation ofthe Estonian Defence Forces; 7 The democratic soldier inHungary; 8 The Lithuanian reform of thearmed forces after independence; 9 The Polish soldier betweennational traditions andinternational projection; 10 Democratic soldiering in Romania: From norms through policy to reality; 11 State building and images of thedemocratic soldier in Serbia.
- 12 The Ukrainian model of thedemocratic soldierPart VConclusions; 13 Transformation stress: Democratic soldiers between ideals and mission impossible; Bibliography; Index.