Democratic civil-military relations : soldiering in 21st-century Europe / / edited by Sabine Mannitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465708403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-66553-X; 9786613642462; 0-203-11391-8; 1-136-28885-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Collana: Cass Military Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): MannitzSabine
• Disciplina: 306.2/7094
• Soggetti: Sociology, Military - Europe; Military service, Voluntary - Europe; Soldiers - Europe; Democracy - Europe; Civil-military relations - Europe; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Soldiering in 21st Century Europe; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; Conceptualizations of the democratic soldier in twenty-first century Europe: Competing norms and practical tensions; Part II Case studies on traditional democracies; 1 The Swiss citizen-soldier: A contested tradition; 2 The ideal type of the democratic soldier in Britain; Part III Case studies on consolidated post-authoritarian democracies; 3 The German Bundeswehr soldier between constitutional settings and current tasks; 4 The image of the Spanish soldierafter the transition to democracyPart IV Case studies on post-socialist democracies; 5 Model and reality of the democratic soldier in the Czech Republic; 6 The ongoing transformation of the Estonian Defence Forces; 7 The democratic soldier in Hungary; 8 The Lithuanian reform of the armed forces after independence; 9 The Polish soldier between national traditions and ; international projection; 10 Democratic soldiering in Romania: From norms through policy to reality; 11 State building and images of the democratic soldier in Serbia; 12 The Ukrainian model of thedemocratic soldier Part V Conclusions; 13 Transformation stress: Democratic soldiers between ideals and mission impossible; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 fulfil unconventional tasks - partly civilian, partly humanitarian, and partly military - in most complex, multi-national missions.