Armed Forces and International Security: Global Trends and Issues (Soziologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3825872270 ISBN 13: 9783825872274

Publisher: LIT Verlag, 2004

Synopsis

Designed as a textbook and interdisciplinary reference for the social sciences, this volume examines key issues in the current global security agenda and relationships between armed forces and society around the world. The book's concise chapters - on a broad range of themes related to national and international security, military sociology, and civil-military relations - were written by experts from 18 countries. This volume also has a groundbreaking section, which - using country studies and regional overviews - discusses civil-military relations in as well as the most salient theoretical and practical features of current means of democratic control of the armed forces in the early 21st century.

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About the Author

Jean Callaghan is attached to the research department of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He has contributed to New Times for the Military; Military Security, and articles in such distinguished journals as Armed Forces & Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: LIT Verlag
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 3825872270
• ISBN 13: 9783825872274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Kernic Franz, Callaghan Jean