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Book Chapter by Joseph Soeters
Papers by Joseph Soeters
Militaire Spectator, 1998
Handbooks of sociology and social research, 2018
In this chapter we point out why the management of diversity has become an important issue for ar... more In this chapter we point out why the management of diversity has become an important issue for armed forces today, as well as the uncomfortable dilemmas and challenges this brings to the force. We examine this with reference to the South African armed forces. This case captures many of the issues armed forces across the world face in terms of the integration of persons from different military, racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. Through this we highlight how issues of diversity are managed, the tensions it evokes as well as the effect on organizational effectiveness. How this affects interactions with other military contingents, the importance of understanding the cultural diversity of host countries and why there is a need to deploy troops who come from diverse backgrounds are deliberated. In closure, the different tensions around issues of exclusion, inclusion, differentiation and assimilation are highlighted.
Routledge eBooks, Mar 24, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Mar 24, 2020
Springer eBooks, Oct 24, 2020
This chapter delves into a variety of issues dealing with rationality, irrationality, and everyth... more This chapter delves into a variety of issues dealing with rationality, irrationality, and everything in between, as they occur in military organizations. Respectively, this contribution examines the rationality behind the structure of military organizations, including its room for improvement based on contemporary experiences and insights, such as modular organizing. Next, the chapter deals with the possible McSoldiering of the military and the risk that rationality may turn irrational. Subsequently, the limits of rationality in military decision-making will be examined, after which elements of organizational hypocrisy in military action will be assessed. At the end, the phenomenon of collateral damage as a consequence of military action and the way the military often deals with this phenomenon, are considered. The aim of this chapter is to spawn insights and understanding of the many dilemmas that military organizations face continuously, on and off the area of operations, consciously and subconsciously.
In this first issue of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies the Bosnian Experience i... more In this first issue of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies the Bosnian Experience is dicussed. The soldiers themselves - especially the Dutch ones - take centre stage. What did they do, or what did they do not? How did they and their home front experience it all? The contributions are the result of empirical studies and therefore based on sytematically gathered data and real-life observations during UNPROFOR and IFOR. These observations are put into perspective using theoretical models which enable comparisons to be made and reflection to occur
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams, 2022
This chapter compares essentials in Jane Addams’s and Mary Parker Follett’s thinking on cooperati... more This chapter compares essentials in Jane Addams’s and Mary Parker Follett’s thinking on cooperation and the resolution of conflicts. The analysis shows that both scholars had much in common, including many theoretical and practical ideas, even though the domains of their activities differed. Their attempts to come to grips with the resolution of conflicts and the creation of cooperation turn out to be remarkably convergent, implying that their analyses strengthen each other. Both stressed the importance of actions accompanied by reflection, of rejecting the idea that conflicts necessarily have a zero-sum (win/lose) character, of being critical of vast disparities in income and wealth, of the belief that punishment is not the way to deal with difficult and “nasty” people, of striving for new things (i.e., social, political, and business innovations), of democratic action at the “grassroots” (i.e., community or neighborhood) level, and, last but not least, of women being part of all p...
Sociology and Military Studies, 2018
The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can tru... more The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly between the services (e.g. the land and air forces), but to an increasing extent also combined, between units of several countries. The cooperation sometimes assumes very far-going structural forms, as is demonstrated by the formation of the German-Netherlands Corps. Usually, however, international units meet ona more incidental basis in exercises, and increasingly also in actual missions. The closing decade of the last century showed that military operations from peace enforcing to peacesupport operations cannot be conducted by an individual country anymore. In an international context military personnel are dependent on each other in the realization of their targets, usually because there is a lack of adequate (personnel) resources to conductindependent action, and sometimes, as in the case of the United States, to strengthen thelegitimacy of an operation.The result is that the military has thoroughly internationalized, making know-how regarding international management from the business sector also applicable to the armed forces. One of those knowledge domains concerns the influence of national cultures on the structure and functioning of international alliances. Research based on insights into cultural differences indifferences. These differences concern the loyalty of the personnel to the organization, the structure and functioning of the organization, the relation and social distance between the leadership and rank and file, as well as the extent of formalization and rule orientation. In this respect the cultural heterogeneity between national armed forces is at least s great as that in the profit sector. In all likelihood the impact of this cultural heterogeneity is greater in military operations than in structural cooperation in the business sector. This is related to the fact that in military operations the missions and targets are not always so concrete and measurable. Besides, military units always have to keep up a national line of responsibility ,the time frames of the operation tend to be rather tight and the sense of urgency is very high,whereas the personnel is constantly rotated. At the same time, however, there is also, quite emphatically, something like a supranational military culture. In comparison with profit businesses, military culture in all countries is ratherbureaucratic, hierarchic and institutional (i.e. relatively less inclined towards income, careerand private life). This means that even before entering a specific multinational force, officersmay have undergone vicarious anticipatory and actual socialization to work in such frameworks. The consequence of this is that military personnel of different origin can often function with each other without too many problems. The present article intends to show how cultural differences, in this case between British and Dutch army personnel, could give rise to such friction that interference by the Dutch Army Staff was deemed necessary. This interference was occasioned by an investigation of the Bureau Lessons Learned, directed at providing cultural information on the British Army. The intention was to give direct culture guidelines to Dutch personnel on how to improve their contacts with the British. It so happens that the location of this Anglo-Dutch cooperation is Cyprus, and the international frameworkthat of the UNFICYP mission; indeed, the same mission about which Moskos had expressedso much optimism with regard to the effects of an international military professionalism,some 25 years ago.The build-up of the article is as follows. We begin by describing the nature of the conflict in Cyprus as well as the task and composition of the UN mission there. Subsequently, the authors will address the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in this mission based on some fragmented research material. In doing so, they will make use of data obtained from interviews with ten Dutch servicemen conducted shortly after their return from deployment on the first rotation. In addition, the authors have made use of the experiences of two Dutch lieutenants during the second and third rotation respectively, described in a study paper. Moreover, they have had the disposal of material from a survey held among the Dutch contingent during the first rotation. Taken together, these data yield a fairly good impression of the dynamics of the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in Cyprus. A subsequent section gives a description of the intervention by the Bureau Lessons Learned with regard to this cooperation. Finally, there is an observation on the use and necessity of cultural information in multinational military operations.
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks, 2006
1995 wurde das Deutsch-Niederländische Korps (1 GE/NL Corps) als Ergebnis eines politischen Proze... more 1995 wurde das Deutsch-Niederländische Korps (1 GE/NL Corps) als Ergebnis eines politischen Prozesses in Dienst gestellt, der mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer 1989 begonnen hatte. Dieses Ereignis bewirkte, dass viele europäische Staaten eine ‚Friedensdividende‘ für sich reklamierten und damit begannen, ihre Verteidigungshaushalte zu verkleinern und ihre Streitkräfte umzustrukturieren. Diesem Gedanken folgend entschlossen sich auch Deutschland und die Niederlande, ihre Streitkräfte zusammenzufassen und ein binationales Korps zu gründen (Moelker 2002). Hiervon versprach man sich organisatorische Vereinfachungen bei gleichzeitiger Bewahrung der militärischen Kampfkraft.
Springer eBooks, 2021
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can tru... more The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly between the services (e.g. the land and air forces), but to an increasing extent also combined, between units of several countries. The cooperation sometimes assumes very far-going structural forms, as is demonstrated by the formation of the German-Netherlands Corps. Usually, however, international units meet ona more incidental basis in exercises, and increasingly also in actual missions. The closing decade of the last century showed that military operations from peace enforcing to peacesupport operations cannot be conducted by an individual country anymore. In an international context military personnel are dependent on each other in the realization of their targets, usually because there is a lack of adequate (personnel) resources to conductindependent action, and sometimes, as in the case of the United States, to strengthen thelegitimacy of an operation.The result is that the military has thoroughly internationalized, making know-how regarding international management from the business sector also applicable to the armed forces. One of those knowledge domains concerns the influence of national cultures on the structure and functioning of international alliances. Research based on insights into cultural differences indifferences. These differences concern the loyalty of the personnel to the organization, the structure and functioning of the organization, the relation and social distance between the leadership and rank and file, as well as the extent of formalization and rule orientation. In this respect the cultural heterogeneity between national armed forces is at least s great as that in the profit sector. In all likelihood the impact of this cultural heterogeneity is greater in military operations than in structural cooperation in the business sector. This is related to the fact that in military operations the missions and targets are not always so concrete and measurable. Besides, military units always have to keep up a national line of responsibility ,the time frames of the operation tend to be rather tight and the sense of urgency is very high,whereas the personnel is constantly rotated. At the same time, however, there is also, quite emphatically, something like a supranational military culture. In comparison with profit businesses, military culture in all countries is ratherbureaucratic, hierarchic and institutional (i.e. relatively less inclined towards income, careerand private life). This means that even before entering a specific multinational force, officersmay have undergone vicarious anticipatory and actual socialization to work in such frameworks. The consequence of this is that military personnel of different origin can often function with each other without too many problems. The present article intends to show how cultural differences, in this case between British and Dutch army personnel, could give rise to such friction that interference by the Dutch Army Staff was deemed necessary. This interference was occasioned by an investigation of the Bureau Lessons Learned, directed at providing cultural information on the British Army. The intention was to give direct culture guidelines to Dutch personnel on how to improve their contacts with the British. It so happens that the location of this Anglo-Dutch cooperation is Cyprus, and the international frameworkthat of the UNFICYP mission; indeed, the same mission about which Moskos had expressedso much optimism with regard to the effects of an international military professionalism,some 25 years ago.The build-up of the article is as follows. We begin by describing the nature of the conflict in Cyprus as well as the task and composition of the UN mission there. Subsequently, the authors will address the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in this mission based on some fragmented research material. In doing so, they will make use of data obtained from interviews with ten Dutch servicemen conducted shortly after their return from deployment on the first rotation. In addition, the authors have made use of the experiences of two Dutch lieutenants during the second and third rotation respectively, described in a study paper. Moreover, they have had the disposal of material from a survey held among the Dutch contingent during the first rotation. Taken together, these data yield a fairly good impression of the dynamics of the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in Cyprus. A subsequent section gives a description of the intervention by the Bureau Lessons Learned with regard to this cooperation. Finally, there is an observation on the use and necessity of cultural information in multinational military operations.
Militaire Spectator, 1998
Handbooks of sociology and social research, 2018
In this chapter we point out why the management of diversity has become an important issue for ar... more In this chapter we point out why the management of diversity has become an important issue for armed forces today, as well as the uncomfortable dilemmas and challenges this brings to the force. We examine this with reference to the South African armed forces. This case captures many of the issues armed forces across the world face in terms of the integration of persons from different military, racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. Through this we highlight how issues of diversity are managed, the tensions it evokes as well as the effect on organizational effectiveness. How this affects interactions with other military contingents, the importance of understanding the cultural diversity of host countries and why there is a need to deploy troops who come from diverse backgrounds are deliberated. In closure, the different tensions around issues of exclusion, inclusion, differentiation and assimilation are highlighted.
Routledge eBooks, Mar 24, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Mar 24, 2020
Springer eBooks, Oct 24, 2020
This chapter delves into a variety of issues dealing with rationality, irrationality, and everyth... more This chapter delves into a variety of issues dealing with rationality, irrationality, and everything in between, as they occur in military organizations. Respectively, this contribution examines the rationality behind the structure of military organizations, including its room for improvement based on contemporary experiences and insights, such as modular organizing. Next, the chapter deals with the possible McSoldiering of the military and the risk that rationality may turn irrational. Subsequently, the limits of rationality in military decision-making will be examined, after which elements of organizational hypocrisy in military action will be assessed. At the end, the phenomenon of collateral damage as a consequence of military action and the way the military often deals with this phenomenon, are considered. The aim of this chapter is to spawn insights and understanding of the many dilemmas that military organizations face continuously, on and off the area of operations, consciously and subconsciously.
In this first issue of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies the Bosnian Experience i... more In this first issue of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies the Bosnian Experience is dicussed. The soldiers themselves - especially the Dutch ones - take centre stage. What did they do, or what did they do not? How did they and their home front experience it all? The contributions are the result of empirical studies and therefore based on sytematically gathered data and real-life observations during UNPROFOR and IFOR. These observations are put into perspective using theoretical models which enable comparisons to be made and reflection to occur
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams, 2022
This chapter compares essentials in Jane Addams’s and Mary Parker Follett’s thinking on cooperati... more This chapter compares essentials in Jane Addams’s and Mary Parker Follett’s thinking on cooperation and the resolution of conflicts. The analysis shows that both scholars had much in common, including many theoretical and practical ideas, even though the domains of their activities differed. Their attempts to come to grips with the resolution of conflicts and the creation of cooperation turn out to be remarkably convergent, implying that their analyses strengthen each other. Both stressed the importance of actions accompanied by reflection, of rejecting the idea that conflicts necessarily have a zero-sum (win/lose) character, of being critical of vast disparities in income and wealth, of the belief that punishment is not the way to deal with difficult and “nasty” people, of striving for new things (i.e., social, political, and business innovations), of democratic action at the “grassroots” (i.e., community or neighborhood) level, and, last but not least, of women being part of all p...
Sociology and Military Studies, 2018
The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can tru... more The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly between the services (e.g. the land and air forces), but to an increasing extent also combined, between units of several countries. The cooperation sometimes assumes very far-going structural forms, as is demonstrated by the formation of the German-Netherlands Corps. Usually, however, international units meet ona more incidental basis in exercises, and increasingly also in actual missions. The closing decade of the last century showed that military operations from peace enforcing to peacesupport operations cannot be conducted by an individual country anymore. In an international context military personnel are dependent on each other in the realization of their targets, usually because there is a lack of adequate (personnel) resources to conductindependent action, and sometimes, as in the case of the United States, to strengthen thelegitimacy of an operation.The result is that the military has thoroughly internationalized, making know-how regarding international management from the business sector also applicable to the armed forces. One of those knowledge domains concerns the influence of national cultures on the structure and functioning of international alliances. Research based on insights into cultural differences indifferences. These differences concern the loyalty of the personnel to the organization, the structure and functioning of the organization, the relation and social distance between the leadership and rank and file, as well as the extent of formalization and rule orientation. In this respect the cultural heterogeneity between national armed forces is at least s great as that in the profit sector. In all likelihood the impact of this cultural heterogeneity is greater in military operations than in structural cooperation in the business sector. This is related to the fact that in military operations the missions and targets are not always so concrete and measurable. Besides, military units always have to keep up a national line of responsibility ,the time frames of the operation tend to be rather tight and the sense of urgency is very high,whereas the personnel is constantly rotated. At the same time, however, there is also, quite emphatically, something like a supranational military culture. In comparison with profit businesses, military culture in all countries is ratherbureaucratic, hierarchic and institutional (i.e. relatively less inclined towards income, careerand private life). This means that even before entering a specific multinational force, officersmay have undergone vicarious anticipatory and actual socialization to work in such frameworks. The consequence of this is that military personnel of different origin can often function with each other without too many problems. The present article intends to show how cultural differences, in this case between British and Dutch army personnel, could give rise to such friction that interference by the Dutch Army Staff was deemed necessary. This interference was occasioned by an investigation of the Bureau Lessons Learned, directed at providing cultural information on the British Army. The intention was to give direct culture guidelines to Dutch personnel on how to improve their contacts with the British. It so happens that the location of this Anglo-Dutch cooperation is Cyprus, and the international frameworkthat of the UNFICYP mission; indeed, the same mission about which Moskos had expressedso much optimism with regard to the effects of an international military professionalism,some 25 years ago.The build-up of the article is as follows. We begin by describing the nature of the conflict in Cyprus as well as the task and composition of the UN mission there. Subsequently, the authors will address the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in this mission based on some fragmented research material. In doing so, they will make use of data obtained from interviews with ten Dutch servicemen conducted shortly after their return from deployment on the first rotation. In addition, the authors have made use of the experiences of two Dutch lieutenants during the second and third rotation respectively, described in a study paper. Moreover, they have had the disposal of material from a survey held among the Dutch contingent during the first rotation. Taken together, these data yield a fairly good impression of the dynamics of the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in Cyprus. A subsequent section gives a description of the intervention by the Bureau Lessons Learned with regard to this cooperation. Finally, there is an observation on the use and necessity of cultural information in multinational military operations.
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks, 2006
1995 wurde das Deutsch-Niederländische Korps (1 GE/NL Corps) als Ergebnis eines politischen Proze... more 1995 wurde das Deutsch-Niederländische Korps (1 GE/NL Corps) als Ergebnis eines politischen Prozesses in Dienst gestellt, der mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer 1989 begonnen hatte. Dieses Ereignis bewirkte, dass viele europäische Staaten eine ‚Friedensdividende‘ für sich reklamierten und damit begannen, ihre Verteidigungshaushalte zu verkleinern und ihre Streitkräfte umzustrukturieren. Diesem Gedanken folgend entschlossen sich auch Deutschland und die Niederlande, ihre Streitkräfte zusammenzufassen und ein binationales Korps zu gründen (Moelker 2002). Hiervon versprach man sich organisatorische Vereinfachungen bei gleichzeitiger Bewahrung der militärischen Kampfkraft.
Springer eBooks, 2021
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can tru... more The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly between the services (e.g. the land and air forces), but to an increasing extent also combined, between units of several countries. The cooperation sometimes assumes very far-going structural forms, as is demonstrated by the formation of the German-Netherlands Corps. Usually, however, international units meet ona more incidental basis in exercises, and increasingly also in actual missions. The closing decade of the last century showed that military operations from peace enforcing to peacesupport operations cannot be conducted by an individual country anymore. In an international context military personnel are dependent on each other in the realization of their targets, usually because there is a lack of adequate (personnel) resources to conductindependent action, and sometimes, as in the case of the United States, to strengthen thelegitimacy of an operation.The result is that the military has thoroughly internationalized, making know-how regarding international management from the business sector also applicable to the armed forces. One of those knowledge domains concerns the influence of national cultures on the structure and functioning of international alliances. Research based on insights into cultural differences indifferences. These differences concern the loyalty of the personnel to the organization, the structure and functioning of the organization, the relation and social distance between the leadership and rank and file, as well as the extent of formalization and rule orientation. In this respect the cultural heterogeneity between national armed forces is at least s great as that in the profit sector. In all likelihood the impact of this cultural heterogeneity is greater in military operations than in structural cooperation in the business sector. This is related to the fact that in military operations the missions and targets are not always so concrete and measurable. Besides, military units always have to keep up a national line of responsibility ,the time frames of the operation tend to be rather tight and the sense of urgency is very high,whereas the personnel is constantly rotated. At the same time, however, there is also, quite emphatically, something like a supranational military culture. In comparison with profit businesses, military culture in all countries is ratherbureaucratic, hierarchic and institutional (i.e. relatively less inclined towards income, careerand private life). This means that even before entering a specific multinational force, officersmay have undergone vicarious anticipatory and actual socialization to work in such frameworks. The consequence of this is that military personnel of different origin can often function with each other without too many problems. The present article intends to show how cultural differences, in this case between British and Dutch army personnel, could give rise to such friction that interference by the Dutch Army Staff was deemed necessary. This interference was occasioned by an investigation of the Bureau Lessons Learned, directed at providing cultural information on the British Army. The intention was to give direct culture guidelines to Dutch personnel on how to improve their contacts with the British. It so happens that the location of this Anglo-Dutch cooperation is Cyprus, and the international frameworkthat of the UNFICYP mission; indeed, the same mission about which Moskos had expressedso much optimism with regard to the effects of an international military professionalism,some 25 years ago.The build-up of the article is as follows. We begin by describing the nature of the conflict in Cyprus as well as the task and composition of the UN mission there. Subsequently, the authors will address the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in this mission based on some fragmented research material. In doing so, they will make use of data obtained from interviews with ten Dutch servicemen conducted shortly after their return from deployment on the first rotation. In addition, the authors have made use of the experiences of two Dutch lieutenants during the second and third rotation respectively, described in a study paper. Moreover, they have had the disposal of material from a survey held among the Dutch contingent during the first rotation. Taken together, these data yield a fairly good impression of the dynamics of the Anglo-Dutch cooperation in Cyprus. A subsequent section gives a description of the intervention by the Bureau Lessons Learned with regard to this cooperation. Finally, there is an observation on the use and necessity of cultural information in multinational military operations.
In today’s world of globalisation, national borders have faded away, which poses new challenges a... more In today’s world of globalisation, national borders have faded away, which poses new challenges and risks for national and international security. The ambition of the Netherlands Ministry of Defence is to share responsibility for the safety and stability of the international community. The three main tasks of the Defence organisation are formulated as follows: 1) Protecting the integrity of national and allied territory, including the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. 2) Promoting stability and the international rule of law. 3) Supporting civil authorities in upholding the law, and providing disaster and humanitarian relief, both nationally and internationally [6]. In order to carry out these tasks, often in international alliances, and to successfully perform the requisite complex activities involved in these tasks, the Netherlands Defence organisation aspires to be professional, flexible, and multi-functional. This requires a well-balanced personnel structure of military and civilian personnel, working together effectively to accomplish the organisation’s objectives. However, as far as we know, until now, civilian and military personnel work culture and relations in the Netherlands Defence organisation have not been subject to scientific study, in contrast with the extensive study of other forms of civilmilitary relations (e.g., the cooperation between the military and civilian actors and organisations in operational situations, such as between the military and national governments, local authorities and non-governmental organisations/NGOs). The aim of this chapter is to provide insight into civilian and military personnel work relations in the Netherlands Defence organisation. First, we provide information about the size, structure, and workforce of the Netherlands Defence organisation. Then, we describe how the proportion of civilian and military personnel in the Netherlands Defence organisation originated and the rationale behind it. We subsequently address the work relations of civilian and military personnel, the management of these two groups of personnel (i.e., the policies and practices), and the issues and points of attention that can be identified. The information we present and discuss in this chapter is based on (policy) documents, interviews, and secondary analyses of quantitative data collected periodically among Defence personnel by the Behavioral Sciences Services Centre. We conducted interviews with the following high-ranking personnel in charge of personnel affairs: the Head Director Personnel (responsible for all Defence personnel), the Director Personnel of the Navy, the Director Personnel of the Army, a staff member of the Army, the Commander of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, the Commander of the Support Command, and the Director of the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO). Additionally, we interviewed the Director of the Behavioral Sciences Services Centre and the head of one of the largest unions of Defence personnel. The country report template served as our interview guideline.
This is a presentation for the European Group on Military and Society (ERGOMAS) 2013 conference. ... more This is a presentation for the European Group on Military and Society (ERGOMAS) 2013 conference. It explores the civil military relations of Morris Janowitz demonstrating its roots in pragmatism and applications to peacekeeping.
Tirant Lo Blanch, 2023
Este libro examina la conexión entre la sociología y los desafíos que enfrentan las fuerzas armad... more Este libro examina la conexión entre la sociología y los desafíos que enfrentan las fuerzas armadas modernas.
La sociología militar ha recibido poca atención en el mundo académico más amplio y se centra, principalmente, en las relaciones entre civiles y militares. Este libro busca abordar esta brecha y combina ideas, teorías y puntos de vista de los autores fundadores de la sociología. Cada capítulo se enfoca en un pensador específico. Hay capítulos sobre Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Pitirim Sorokin, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Morris Janowitz, Norbert Elias, Cornelis Lammers, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cynthia Enloe y Bruno Latour. Cada uno de los ensayos discute sus ideas y teorías en relación con temas que son de interés en y alrededor de las fuerzas armadas contemporáneas.
Los estudios militares se toman aquí en un sentido amplio, por lo que el volumen abarca una amplia gama de temas, incluidas las relaciones entre civiles y militares, los asuntos político-militares, el desempeño y los resultados de las operaciones militares y los arreglos organizacionales, incluida la tecnología y la composición, el desempeño y bienestar del personal.
El libro tiene la intención de proporcionar puntos de vista y aproximaciones que ayudarán a las fuerzas armadas a innovar en sus organizaciones y prácticas, no necesariamente en la forma funcional habitual de innovar (es decir, más rápido, más preciso, etc.) sino de una manera más amplia.
Este libro será de gran interés para los estudiantes de sociología, estudios militares, relaciones cívico-militares, estudios de la guerra y el conflicto, y relaciones internacionales en general.