Title: The changing face of European conscription /
Authors: Joenniemi, Pertti
Publisher: Ashgate
Year: 2006
Subjects: Nation-state.; Draft Scandinavia.; Draft Germany; Draft France
Abstract: "Conscription is seen as forming a site and an issue-area around which different identities are struggled over and core political relations established in a security-related context. The unravelling of conscription thus unavoidably pertains to a set of rather essential ideational issues and has significance far beyond the military sphere. Contributions of the book plunge into the more profound issues such as the meaning of conscription in the context of the increasingly feeble relationship between the state and the nation."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction : unpacking conscription / Pertti Joenniemi -- Farewell to conscription? : the case of Denmark / Pertti Joenniemi -- National or international? : contending discourses on Finnish conscription / Kari Laitinen -- The rise and death of conscription : the case of France / Jean-Philippe Lecomte -- Resisting change : the politics of conscription in contemporary Germany / Kerry Longhurst -- The power of the draft : a century of changing legitimacy of Norway's armed forces / Karsten Friis -- Enduring conscription : vagueness and värnplikt in Sweden / Anna Leander -- The Swedish military manpower policies and their gender implications / Annica Kronsell and Erika Svedberg -- Conclusion : national lexica of conscription / Anna Leander and Pertti Joenniemi.