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ISBN 10: 1134223619 

ISBN 13: 9781134223619

Author: Giuseppe Caforio 

This innovative book presents the reader with a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. In this first title on its subject, leading expert Giuseppe Caforio offers a thorough analysis of the new aspects and trends of the social sciences in studying the military. Since the end of the Cold War, military operations other than war, crisis-response operations, the fight against terrorism, and hi-tech warfare have posed for the militaries of all countries a new set of human and social challenges and problems of an intensity that had never been seen in peacetime. Sociology, social psychology, anthropology and the science of conflict are grappling with these issues, common to all armed forces, with a new fervour. This new book offers an update on the state-of-the-art on this theme and defines the latest study and research trends in the field. Social Sciences and the Military contains essays by some of the most highly regarded scholars on the subject and will be essential reading for all students of civil-military relations, conflict resolution and military studies in general.

Social Sciences and the Military An Interdisciplinary Overview Cass Military Studies 1st Table of contents: 

Part I General issues
1 Challenges of the twenty-first century, social sciences and strategic thinking
Introduction
Global challenges and the impact of science on security thinking
Changes in strategic concepts and doctrines
Conclusion
Notes
References
2 Current developments and trends in social research on the military1
Early twentieth century
World War II
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
The current state of knowledge
Note
Bibliography
3 Military organization and culture from three perspectives The case of army
Introduction
Method
Integration perspective
Organizations have culture
Organizations are culture
Summary
Differentiation perspective
Summary
Fragmentation perspective
Summary
Culture change – three perspectives
Integration approach to culture change
Differentiation approach to culture change
Fragmentation approach to culture change
Summary
Conclusions
Notes
References
4 Political science perspectives on the military and civil–military relations
Introduction
The political science approach
Examples from political science
The trailblazers: Harold D. Lasswell and Samuel P. Huntington
Normative theorists: Sam C. Sarkesian, Don M. Snider and Eliot A. Cohen
New institutionalists/formal theorists: Peter D. Feaver and Deborah D. Avant
Structuralists/IR theorists: John J. Mearsheimer, Michael C. Desch and Stephen J. Cimbala
New European theorists: Anthony Forster and Hans Born
Political science as the core of interdisciplinary studies of the military
Notes
References
5 Social history and the armed forces Military education and social change
Introduction
The West Side story, or the double-edged sword of civil defense
The East Side story, or how the other side of the Elbe was ruled
Learning from history: a militarized empire can only be right
Social history and the armed forces
Notes
References
6 From a psychological to a behavioural-sciences approach and beyond in military research Current status and trends
Introduction
Overview
Military psychology
Education, training and mission rehearsal
Organisation
Operations and operations support
Clinic
Military behavioural sciences
Education, training and mission rehearsal
Organisation
Operation and operations support
Clinic
An interdisciplinary approach in military context
Education, training and mission rehearsal
Organisation
Operation and operation support
Clinic
Evolution of military psychological forums
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 The study of workgroups in the military An organisational aesthetics perspective
Introduction
The pathos of organisational artefacts
The entrance of the barracks
The trousse
Beauty (and other aesthetic categories) in the military
The drill
Beauty and grotesque
Organisational aesthetics: an outline
On aesthetic research: some remarks on method
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part II New issues and emerging trends
8 Conceptual insecurity New wars, MOOTW, CRO, terrorism, and the military
Introduction
Political framework
New wars
Revolutions in security affairs
European threat perception
The security sector and military transformation
New missions
New military
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
9 How the military can profit from management and organization science
Introduction
Flexibility
Networking
Modularity
Ambidexterity
Conclusions and avenues for future research
Notes
References
10 The military in post-communist societies in transition
Introduction
The logic of the research
Military sociology, political science and interdisciplinary studies: civil-military relations, professionalization, military organization, institution vs occupation
Sovietology, transitology and democratic consolidation: path-dependency
Geopolitics, political geography, international relations: space, power and globalization
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
11 Trends and evolution in the military profession
The military professional
The process of change in the military profession
Future trends
Notes
Bibliography
12 Women soldiers in a transcultural perspective
Introduction
Theories of societal change: economic, political and cultural development and their application to women’s integration in the armed forces
A first general model of the women-military relationship
An index of female soldiers’ integration
Similarity and diversity within countries: explanations from social change and development theories
Modernisation and human development: the role of culture
The cultural map and the cultural clusters of countries
The gender equality scale
A tentative typology of women-armed forces and culture linkages
How culture matters: an Hofstedean explanation
Conclusion
Notes
References
13 Between legitimacy and efficiency A comparative view on democratic accountability of defence activities in democracies
Introduction
Democratic control of defence policy as an established international norm
The role of parliamentary accountability mechanisms
Parliamentary oversight powers in 16 democracies in Europe and northern America
Political system characteristics of the 16 selected democracies
General powers of parliamentary oversight
Parliament and budget control
Parliament and peace support operations
Parliament and defence procurement
Parliament and security and defence policy

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