Cultural diversity in the Armed Forces
Subtitle: an international comparison
By: edited by Joseph Soeters and Jan van der Meulen
Series: Cass military studies; Cass military studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780203967409
Subjects: Armed Forces; Case studies; Minorities; Diversity in the workplace; Forces armées; Études de cas; Minorités; Multiculturalisme en milieu de travail; HISTORY; Military; Biological & Chemical Warfare
Description: This book addresses the different ways in which armed forces around the world respond to the cultural diversity of their parent societies, ethnicity and gender in particular, in order to enhance their quality and legitimacy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diversity in the armed forces of the United States / Charles Moskos; title: Diversity in the Canadian forces / Donna Winslow, Phyllis Browne and Angela Febbraro; title: Indigenous integration into the Bolivian and Ecuadorean armed forces / Brian R. Selmeski; title: Diversity in the Brazilian armed forces / Celso Castro; title: Diversity in the South African armed forces / Lindy Heinecken; title: Diversity in the Eritrean armed forces / Mussie Teclemichael Tessema; title: Diversity in the Indian armed forces / Leena Parmar; title: Diversity in the Israel Defense Forces / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari; title: Ethnic diversity in the British armed forces / Christopher Dandeker and David Mason; title: Diversity in the French armed forces / Bernard Boëne and Claude Weber; title: Diversity in the German armed forces / Heiko Biehl, Paul Klein and Gerhard Kümmel; title: Diversity in the Belgian armed forces / Philippe Manigart; title: Diversity in the Dutch armed forces / Rudy Richardson, Jolanda Bosch and René Moelker.