Armed Forces And Society In Europe

Download or read book Armed Forces and Society in Europe written by A. Forster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-Cold War era, European militaries are engaged in an ongoing adaptation which is challenging relations between armed forces and the societies that they serve. This book offers an innovative conceptual framework to critically evaluate contemporary civil-military relations across the continent of Europe. It analyzes eight key issues in armed forces and society relations, to explore the scale and intensity of these changes.

Download or read book The Challenge of Military Reform in Postcommunist Europe written by A. Forster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major comparative study examines the challenges faced by countries of postcommunist Europe in reforming and professionalizing their armed forces. It explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping professionalization processes in this changing region. The detailed country case studies in this volume, written by leading experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, FRY, Russia and Ukraine.

Download or read book The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy written by Alyson J. K. Bailes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 the EU decided to develop its own military capacities for crisis management. This book brings together a group of experts to examine the consequences of this decision on Nordic policy establishments, as well as to shed new light on the defence and security issues that matter for Europe as a whole.

Download or read book War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970 written by Brian Bond and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Europe descended into an era of war and 19th century hopes for peace faded, warfare was itself transformed by the growth of nationalism and technological advances. This study assesses the influence of war on European society between 1870 and 1970.

Download or read book Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe written by A. Forster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping patterns of military-society relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by international experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

Download or read book Military and Society in 21st Century Europe written by Jürgen Kuhlmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Cold War came to an end, European countries in both East and West faced the common question of how their military organizations and those of their neighbors would respond to shifts in international relations affecting their economies, their perception of globalized threats, and cross-national security management. It is undisputed, for example, that in well-developed democratic societies, the challenge to the legitimacy of the military in society, the decreasing subjective apprehension of threat, and growing opposition to systems of universal conscription have been linked to gains in wealth and living standards. This volume seeks, by empirically measuring social indicators, to assess the current state of civil-military relations in a number of countries in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia) as well as the state of relations in several of their Western European counterparts (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands). The country studies describe and analyze the differing positions of the military in their specific national settings.

Download or read book The Military and Liberal Society written by Tomáš Kučera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyse the ways that liberalism determines the military capacities of West European societies.