The Military and Liberal Society : Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315621258" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781315621258</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Military and Liberal Society : Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe

Original language description

A wide variety of issues affected by liberal ideology, including conscription, conscientious objection, military mission, military ethics and the professional identity of soldiers are addressed in the book. The empirical analysis draws on the cases of the German Bundeswehr (from the 1950s onwards), the Swedish Armed Forces (the transformation after the end of the Cold War), and the British Armed Forces (from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards). The book&apos;s examination of these cases reveals that specific policies, institutions and practices are preferred because of their relation to liberalism. Since Samuel Huntington&apos;s seminal book The Soldier and the State the literature on civil-military relations and military sociology depicts the relationship between liberal ideology and military security as intrinsically antithetical. This book is conceived as a critical debate with Huntington. Contrary to the notion of antithetical societal-military relationship, this book demonstrates that a meaningful adaptation of the military to the principles possessed by its parent society can be, more often than not, desirable also from the perspective of security strategy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-02288S" target="_blank" >GA16-02288S: Anatomy of Revisionism and Its Impact on (Sub-)Regional Institutionalisations and Alliances</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

ISBN

978-1-138-65760-1

Number of pages

215

Publisher name

Routledge/Taylor &amp; Francis Group

Place of publication

New York

UT code for WoS book

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