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Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Soldiering in 21st Century Europe book cover

1st Edition

Democratic Civil-Military Relations Soldiering in 21st Century Europe

Edited By Sabine Mannitz Copyright 2012
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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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 new security environment, democratic states have called upon their armed forces increasingly to... Read more

Part I: Introduction 1. Conceptualizations of the Democratic Soldier in 21st-Century Europe: Competing Norms and Practical Tensions Sabine Mannitz  Part II: Case studies on Traditional Democracies  2. The Swiss Citizen-Soldier: A Contested Tradition Sabine Mannitz  3. The Ideal Type of the Democratic Soldier in Britain Marco Fey  Part III: Case studies on Consolidated Post-Authoritarian Democracies  4. The German Bundeswehr Soldier between Constitutional Settings and Current Tasks Julika Bake and Berthold Meyer  5. The Image of the Spanish Soldier after the Transition to Democracy Eduardo Arranz Bueso and José Garcia Caneiro  Part IV: Case studies on Post-Socialist Democracies  6. Model and Reality of the Democratic Soldier in the Czech Republic Zdeněk Kříž  7. The Ongoing Transformation of the Estonian Defence Forces Leonid A. Karabeshkin  8. The Democratic Soldier in Hungary András Rácz and Erzsébet N. Rózsa  9. The Lithuanian Reform of the Armed Forces after Independence Gražina Miniotaitė  10. The Polish Soldier between National Traditions and International Projection Maria Wągrowska  11. Democratic Soldiering in Romania: From Norms through Policy to Reality Marian Zulean  12. State Building and Images of the Democratic Soldier in Serbia Filip Ejdus  13. The Ukrainian Model of the Democratic Soldier Sergiy Gerasymchuk  Part V: Conclusions  14. Transformation Stress: Democratic Soldiers between Ideals and Mission Impossible Harald Müller

Biography

Sabine Mannitz is Senior Researcher and Project Director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She has a PhD from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). 

‘This book is extremely valuable as it offers a pioneering study concerning the current challenges in democratic civil-military relations across Europe from an anthropological standpoint.’ -- Paul Chambers, Director of Research at the Southeast Asian Institute of Global Studies

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