Armed forces, soldiers and civil-military relations : essays in honor of Jürgen Kuhlmann / Gerhard Kümmel, Giuseppe Caforio, Christopher Dandeker (eds.)
Soldiers and Armed Forces -- Seeing Through the Stereotype: British Army Culture -- An Insider Anthropology -- 'My Pink Uniform Shows I am One of Them': Socio-Cultural Dimensions of German Peacekeeping Missions -- Looking for a New Identity in the Argentinean Army: The Image of the 'Good Soldier' -- The Hybrid Soldier: Identity Changes in the Military -- New Roles for the Military: The Hellenic Armed Forces and the 2004 Olympic Games -- Rhetorical Persuasion and Storytelling in the Military -- New Methodological Approaches: Aspects of Online Questionnaires -- Civil-Military Relations -- The Public and the Military in Slovenia -- Increasing Military Influence in Danish Civil-Military Relations -- To Go with the Flow? Change and Persistence in Patterns of Civil-Military Relations in Germany before and after the End of the Cold War -- Conscription in Germany Today: A Military Necessity or a Mere Symbol? -- Thinking Globally: U.S. Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Social Problems -- Public Opinion and European Security -- From the 'War on Terror' to the Terror of War: Spanish Defense Policy after 9/11 -- Disillusionment and Hope: A Brief Reminiscence about Perceptions of the Russian-American Relationship in the Second Term of Putin's Presidency -- Borders: Which in Between Most of Our Lives Has Gone
Summary
The contributions to this anthology in honor of the late military sociologist Jürgen Kuhlmann focus on the soldier and his relations towards the armed forces and towards society. This individual - organization and individual - society nexus is explored from different angles by looking at different national and international contexts. The chapters to this volume thus help the academic as well as the practitioner and the interested reader to better understand the dynamics and the critical issues in this soldier - military - society triangle
