Advances in Military Sociology

Advances in Military Sociology

Essays in Honor of Charles C. Moskos

Caforio, Giuseppe; Chatterji, Manas

Emerald Publishing Limited

12/2009

596

Dura

Inglês

9781848558922

15 a 20 dias

A selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers a view of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change that renders many preceding theoretical previsions obsolete.
List of Contributors. End of conscription and problems of manning: The case of Slovenian Armed Forces. Managing diversity in all-volunteer forces: Theoretical perspectives, institutional assessment and policy implications. General conscription in Finland after 2008 - some reasons behind Finland's population's and conscripts' attitudes towards general conscription. Changes in military profession in Latin American countries. Slovene public opinion about security issues: A coincidence or a consistent pattern?. Institutionalising European defence: Main trends in European public perceptions in the age of the global war on terror. Between alliance and home front considerations: The German armed forces and security-related opinion polls. Women in the military profession: The Greek case. Women in conflictual situations in the war-torn Darfur, Sudan: An exposition. Gender integration policies in the armed forces: A double-edged sword?. Thirty years of gender integration: cadet perceptions of women at the U.S. Air force academy. Parents' voice: The intergenerational relationship, worry, appraisal of the deployment, and support among parents of deployed personnel. Military families and deployments abroad in Italy. In search of adequate answers for a new issue. Pakistani military's role in the Asian context. Military educational institutions and their role in the reproduction of inequality in the Philippines. A basis of Mongolian defense policy and armed forces for self-defense. Foreign aid, war/military, and state building of cold war Taiwan: in search of a theoretical and comparative framework. From military professionalism to coup d'etat: Concordance theory in India and Pakistan. Whose job, what job? Security sector performance in a local Communist frontline in central Philippines. EU harmonisation reforms, democratisation and a new modality of civil-military relations in Turkey. The convergence and divergence in perceptions of security issues By military professionals and civilians in South Korea. Civil-military relations of modern Korea: From a patriarchal army to a professional army. Civil-military relations of Korea in the 21st Century. Demilitarizing politics in South Korea: Toward a positive consolidation of civilian supremacy. Conflict management, peace economics and development. Advances in Military Sociology: Essays in Honor of Charles C. Moskos. Copyright page. Foreword. Introduction. Subject Index.
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