Democratic civil-military relations
Subtitle: soldiering in 21st-century Europe
By: edited by Sabine Mannitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415516464; 9780203113912
Subjects: Cross-cultural studies; Civil-military relations; Democracy; Voluntary Military service; Soldiers; Military Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Conceptualizations of the democratic soldier in 21st century Europe: competing norms and practical tensions / Sabine Mannitz; title: Case studies on traditional democracies; title: The Swiss citizen-soldier: a contested tradition / Sabine Mannitz; title: The ideal type of the democratic soldier in Britain / Marco Fey; title: Case studies on consolidated post-authoritarian democracies; title: The German Bundeswehr soldier between constitutional settings and current tasks / Julika Bake / Berthold Meyer; title: The image of the Spanish soldier after the transition to democracy / Eduardo Arranz Bueso / José Garcia Caneiro; title: Case studies on post-socialist democracies; title: Model and reality of the democratic soldier in the Czech Republic / Zdenek Krí; title: The ongoing transformation of the Estonian Defence Forces / Leonid A. Karabeshkin; title: The democratic soldier in Hungary; title: András Rácz / Erzsébet N. Rózsa; title: The Lithuanian reform of the armed forces after independence / Grajina Miniotaite; title: The Polish soldier between national traditions and international projection / Maria Wagrowska; title: Democratic soldiering in Romania: from norms through policy to reality / Marian Zulean; title: State building and images of the democratic soldier in Serbia / Filip Ejdus; title: The Ukrainian model of the democratic soldier / Sergiy Gerasymchuk; title: Conclusions; title: Transformation stress: democratic soldiers between ideals and mission impossible / Harald Müller.