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The Strategic Significance of Ethical Imperatives: The Case of the German Armed Forces

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10272355" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10272355 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://afs.sagepub.com/content/41/4/639" target="_blank" >http://afs.sagepub.com/content/41/4/639</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327X14547806" target="_blank" >10.1177/0095327X14547806</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Strategic Significance of Ethical Imperatives: The Case of the German Armed Forces

  • Original language description

    The theoretical discourse in civil-military relations tends to perpetuate the notion that efficiency of military organizations is often negatively affected by the influence of domestic ideological factors. Societal norms are frequently portrayed as antithetical to the functional imperatives of the military. This article questions this notion and argues that an effective form of military organization can be produced by incorporating ethical norms of domestic society into its defense organization. To understand the role of societal ethical imperatives in defense policy, the Kantian model of societal-military relations is introduced here. This model emphasizes the normative character of military missions and suggests that its effective fulfillment requires an institutional culture consistent with such a mission. This is demonstrated in the case studies of West German rearmament and the post-Cold War transformation of the Bundeswehr. These empirical cases demonstrate that the societal ethi

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    AD - Political sciences

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2015

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Armed Forces and Society

  • ISSN

    0095-327X

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    41

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    4

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    20

  • Pages from-to

    639-658

  • UT code for WoS article

    000361169900003

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-84960431606