Military Sociology Books

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1. Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

   Edited by Paul Amar

   In the 21st century, globalizing development agendas have often become inseparable from militarized or "securitized" interventions: aid missions embed themselves in walled police compounds, international organizations focus on quelling insurgencies, private investments flood the protection sector,...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57795-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Managing Diversity in the Military: The value of inclusion in a culture of uniformity

   Edited by Daniel P. McDonald, Kizzy M. Parks

   This edited book examines the successful management of diversity and inclusion in the military....

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58636-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Military Ethics and Virtues: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the 21st Century

   By Peter Olsthoorn

   This book examines the role of military virtues in today's armed forces.Although long-established military virtues, such as honor, courage and loyalty, are what most armed forces today still use as guiding principles in an effort to enhance the moral behavior of soldiers, much depends on whether...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58006-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Handbook of War and Society: Iraq and Afghanistan

   Edited by Steven Carlton-Ford, Morten G. Ender

   This new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent two of the most interesting and potentially troubling events of recent decades. These two wars-so similar in...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-56732-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Democratic Citizenship and War

   Edited by Yoav Peled, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Guy Mundlak, Jean Cohen

   This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states. Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual’s relations with society. The specific nature of these rights, duties and...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-55224-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom

   By D.C. Gill

   The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war’s transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events. How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-87311-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Military Legacies: A World Made By War

   By James A. Tyner

   Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-99594-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations: Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response

   Edited by Joseph Soeters, Philippe Manigart

   This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them. Military organizations, like other complex...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-57013-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Private Military and Security Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations

   Edited by Andrew Alexandra, Deane-Peter Baker, Marina Caparini

   Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-57030-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Israel and its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion

    By Stuart A. Cohen

    The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a 'people's army' responsible for the custody of national values. This volume analyses the circumstances currently undermining these...

    November 2009 | 978-0-415-57011-4 | Paperback (Routledge)