LEADER 02805nam 22005293a 450 001 9910289346903321 005 20250203232703.0 010 $a9781911529361 010 $a1911529366 024 7 $a10.5334/bbt 035 $a(CKB)4100000007010661 035 $a(OAPEN)1004244 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26501 035 $a(ScCtBLL)188debe5-bdd0-4027-8c7a-acf92403d20e 035 $a(OCoLC)1066118403 035 $a(Perlego)2344172 035 $a(oapen)doab26501 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007010661 100 $a20250203i20132019 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe "Democratic Soldier" : $eComparing Concepts and Practices in Europe /$fSabine Mannitz 210 $aLondon$cUbiquity Press$d2013 210 1$aLondon :$cUbiquity Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (64) 225 1 $aSSR Papers 330 $aSince the end of the Cold War almost all European countries have reformed their armed forces, focusing on downsizing, internationalization and professionalization. This paper examines how these changes in security sector governance have affected the normative model underlying the military's relationship to democracy, using the image of the 'democratic soldier'. Drawing on a comparative analysis of 12 post-socialist, traditional and consolidated democracies in Europe, the different dimensions of the national conception of soldiering are analysed based on the official norms that define a country's military and the ways in which individual members of the armed forces see their role. Cases converge around the new idea of professional soldiering as a merging of civilian skills with military virtues in the context of the military's new post-Cold War missions. Yet despite this convergence, research also shows that specific aspects of national traditions and context continue to influence the actual practice of soldiering in each case. The contradictions that result between these old and new visions of the role of the military and the soldier illustrate the tensions that exist between political goals and defence reform dynamics. 606 $aPolitics & government$2bicssc 606 $aWarfare & defence$2bicssc 610 $asecurity sector reform 610 $agood governance 610 $acivil?military relations 610 $amilitary reform 610 $amilitary power 610 $aarmed forces 615 7$aPolitics & government 615 7$aWarfare & defence 700 $aMannitz$b Sabine$0851285 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910289346903321 996 $aThe "Democratic Soldier"$94319512 997 $aUNINA