Advances in military sociology
Subtitle: essays in honor of Charles C. Moskos
By: [edited by] Giuseppe Caforio
Contributors: Moskos, Charles C.; Caforio, Giuseppe
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development -- v. 12; Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development -- v. 12.
Publisher: Emerald Group; Emerald Group Publishing; Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bingley, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781848558908; 9781848558922; 9781848558946
Subjects: Congresses; Military Sociology; Milita rsoziologie; Friedenssicherung; Asymmetrische Kriegfu hrung; Research
Notes: Selected papers from International Sociological Association, RC 01 section meeting, held at Seoul, Korea in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. A. Charles C. Moskos (1934-2008) / Laura Miller; title: The glocalization of bereavement: bereaved families, economic discourse and the hierarchy of Israeli casualties / Udi Lebel; title: pt. I: Building and sustaining peace. Many views on peace / Bandana Purkayastha; title: Soldiers and scholars in a world of growing interdependence / John Allen Williams; title: Conflict, peacemaking and the dynamics of humiliation / Dennis Smith; title: Turning enemies into friends: the role of economic relationships in building security and sustaining peace / Lloyd J. Dumas; title: The military role in the amnesty, reconciliation, and reintegration (AR2) process: an expanded framework analysis / Michael W. Mosser; title: pt. 2. International military cooperation and peacekeeping operations. Cultural and political challenges in military missions: how officers view multiculturality in armed forces / Tibor Szvircsev Tresch; title: Latin America in peacekeeping operations: a sociopolitical overview / Marina Malamud Feinsilber; title: Polish military forces in peacekeeping missions and military operations other than war: experiences after 2000 / Marcin Sinczuch, Marian Kloczkowski, Mariusz Wachowicz; title: South Korean experiences in peacekeeping and plan for the future / Kyudok Hong; title: Hungarian experiences from peacekeeping in Afghanistan / Zoltan Laszlo Kiss; title: Greece's contribution to the Korean War (1950-1955) / Dimitrios Smokovitis; title: ESDP and Russia: a decade of unfulfilled promise / Sandra Fernandes; title: pt. III: Social, professional and political aspects of asymmetric warfare. Asymmetric warfare: an introduction / Giuseppe Caforio; title: Expeditionary military networks and asymmetric warfare / Paul C. van Fenema; title: Payday in the Afghan National Army: from Western administrative liabilities to local realities / Christiaan Davids, Joseph Soeters; title: New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare / Wilbur J. Scott, George R. Mastroianni, David R. McCone; title: Interaction rituals and language mediation during peace missions: experiences from Afghanistan / Iris Hoedemaekers, Joseph Soeters; title: New ways of military thinking and acting for a better world: new models: preparing forces to master unavoidable transitions / Hermann Jung; title: The asymmetric answers (with the focus on Russia's rhetoric and actions) /Vladimir Rukavishnikov; title: The symmetries of asymmetry: myths surrounding the notion of asymmetric war / Antulio J. Echevarria.; title: Pt. B. pt. I. The military profession in transition: conscription and all volunteer forces. End of conscription and problems of manning: the case of Slovenian Armed Forces / Uros  Svete, Ljubica Jelus ic; title: Managing diversity in all-volunteer forces: theoretical perspectives, institutional assessment and policy implications / Yantsislav Yanakiev; title: General conscription in Finland after 2008: some reasons behind Finland's population's and conscripts' attitudes towards general conscription / Olli Harinen, Jukka Leskinen; title: Changes in military profession in Latin American countries / Omar Gutie rrez; title: pt. II. Public opinion and security issues .Slovene public opinion about security issues: a coincidence or a consistent pattern? / Marjan Males ic , Vinko Vegic; title: Institutionalising European defence: main trends in European public perceptions in the age of the global war on terror / Yantsislav Yanakiev; title: Between alliance and home front considerations: the German armed forces and security-related opinion polls / Sabine Collmer; title: pt. III: Women in the military profession and military families. Women in conflictual situations in the war-torn Darfur, Sudan / Oluyemi O. Fayomi; title: Gender integration policies in the armed forces: a double-edged sword? / Helena Carreiras; title: Women in the military profession: The Greek case / L. Nicolaou-Smokoviti; title: Thirty years of gender integration: cadet perceptions of women at the U.S. Air Force Academy / David R. McCone, Wilbur J. Scott; title: Parents' voice: the intergenerational relationship, worry, appraisal of the deployment, and support among parents of deployed personnel / Manon Andres, Rene  Moelker; title: Military families and deployments abroad in Italy / Marina Nuciari, Guido Sertorio; title: pt. IV. The military in the Asian context. Pakistani military's role in the Asian context / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh; title: Military educational institutions and their role in the reproduction of inequality in the Philippines / Leslie V. Advincula-Lopez; title: A basis of Mongolian defense policy and armed forces for self-defense / Turtogtoh Janar; title: Foreign aid, war/military, and state building of cold war Taiwan: in search of a theoretical and comparative framework / Yu-Wen Fan; title: From military professionalism to coup d'etat: concordance theory in India and Pakistan / Rebecca L. Schiff; title: Whose job, what job? Security sector performance in a local Communist frontline in central Philippines / Rosalie Arcala Hall; title: EU harmonisation reforms, democratisation and a new modality of civil-military relations in Turkey / Nilufer Narli; title: The convergence and divergence in perceptions of security issues by military professionals and civilians in South Korea / Doo-Seung Hong, Chon-Hwan Chong; title: Civil-military relations of modern Korea: from a patriarchal army to a professional army / Mahn-Geum Ohn; title: Civil-military relations of Korea in the 21st Century / Byeong Jo Kim; title: Demilitarizing politics in South Korea: toward a positive consolidation of civilian supremacy / Il Joon Chung.