1st Edition
Cultural Diversity in the Armed Forces An International Comparison
Preface 1. Cultural diversity in the armed forces: an introduction Jan van der Meulen and Joseph Soeters 2. Diversity in the Armed Forces of the United States Charles Moskos 3. Diversity in the Canadian Forces Donna Winslow, Phyllis Browne, Angela Febbraro 4. Indigenous Integration in the Bolivian and Ecuadorian Armed Forces Brian Selmeski 5. Diversity in the Brazilian Armed Forces Celso Castro 6. Diversity in the South-African Armed Forces Lindy Heinecken 7. Diversity in the Eritrean Armed Forces Mussie Teclemichael Tessema 8. Diversity in the Indian Armed Forces Leena Parmar 9. Diversity in the Isareli Armed Forces Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari 10. Ethnic Diversity in the British Armed Forces Christopher Dandeker and David Mason 11. Diversity in the French Armed Forces Bernard Boene and Claude Weber 12. Diversity in the German Armed Forces Heiko Biehl, Paul Klein, Gerhard Kümmel 13. Diversity in the Belgian Armed Forces Philippe Manigart 14. Diversity in the Dutch Armed Forces Rudy Richardson, Jolanda Bosch, René Moelker List of Contributors Index
Biography
Joseph Soeters is a professor in organization studies at the Netherlands Defense Academy and Tilburg University. His research focuses on issues related to international military cooperation, intercultural and diversity management, inter-organizational relations and networking.
Jan van der Meulen is an associate professor at the Netherlands Defense Academy. As a sociologist of civil-military relations he has published on recruitment, public opinion and the support for risky missions. Toghether with Joseph Soeters he was the editor of Managing Diversity in the Armed Forces (1999).
