Can 'Citizen in Uniform' Survive? German Civil-Military Culture Responding to War

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F12%3A10118548" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/12:10118548 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2011.606563" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2011.606563</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2011.606563" target="_blank" >10.1080/09644008.2011.606563</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Can 'Citizen in Uniform' Survive? German Civil-Military Culture Responding to War

Original language description

This article points out the role of perceptions, hereafter referred to as 'civil- military culture', that German society holds about the German armed forces. Analysing the discourse in German newspapers concerning Bundeswehr missions abroad since the early 1990s, and the engagement in Afghanistan in particular, it is argued that options to use the military abroad were circumscribed mainly to humanitarian tasks. This was so because German soldiers have been perceived in accordance with the official concept of a 'citizen in uniform', which has strong ethical implications, and consequently the Bundeswehr was seen as a humanitarian and rescue organisation. However, since the discourse in 2009 made it clear that the internalised civil-military culture no longer provides adequate guidance regarding how to approach a war-like situation such as that in Afghanistan, the entire German civil-military culture is challenged.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/VG20102013009" target="_blank" >VG20102013009: Trends, risks and scenarios of the security evolvement in the world, Europe and the Czech Republic - impacts on the security policy and security system of the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

German Politics

ISSN

0964-4008

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

53-72

UT code for WoS article

000301794900004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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