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New wars, new militaries, new soldiers : conflicts, the armed forces and the soldierly subject /

This collection of sociological studies on the armed forces and conflict resolution deals with three types of developments the military is facing. First, the types of conflicts in which the military finds itself have become less predictable and more erratic, and hence, ways to respond are not easy t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kümmel, Gerhard, Soeters, J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
Colección:Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The military profession and asymmetric warfare / Giuseppe Caforio
  • Ideology and the changing shape of conflict in South Asia : an analysis of the Mumbai attacks / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh
  • Prolonged, frozen, and new conflicts : a view from Russia / Vladimir Rukavishnikov
  • Are covert operations the only effective (military) answer to asymmetric warriors? / Uroš Svete
  • Organizational effectiveness of coalition operations' headquarters : a theoretical model / Esther Vogler-Bisig [and others]
  • Inside UNIFIL's headquarters in Lebanon / Delphine Resteigne, Joseph Soeters
  • National crisis response networks (NCRN) and military organizations : revisiting the Katrina case / Paul C. van Fenema
  • Between formal and informal organization : traditions in Saint-Cyr and elected representatives of a class / Claude Weber
  • Living traditions in the Swiss armed forces / Tibor Szvircsev Tresch, Natalie Schwarz, Markus Williner
  • Informerphobia : understanding the 'fear factor' in crime- and terrorism-related information disclosure in Afghanistan / Joseph Soeters, Hume N. Johnson
  • Recruitment and retention strategy : endogenous constraints, exogenous imperatives / Christian Leuprecht
  • Recruitment and retention of military personnel in Argentina : on quantity and quality / Sabina Frederic, Agustina Ugolini
  • Socialization of conscripts from a symbolic interactionist perspective / Anna Kuchenkova
  • Recruitment to international military service : the officers' view / Johan Österberg, Emma Jonsson
  • Conclusions and prospects : the military on their way to the future / Joseph Soeters, Gerhard Kümmel.