Armed Forces, Soldiers and Civil-Military Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-11

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2. Soldiers and Armed Forces

   1. Seeing Through the Stereotype: British Army Culture — An Insider Anthropology

      • Charles Kirke

      Pages 13-36

   2. ‘My Pink Uniform Shows I am One of Them’: Socio-Cultural Dimensions of German Peacekeeping Missions

      • Maren Tomforde

      Pages 37-57

   3. Looking for a New Identity in the Argentinean Army: The Image of the ‘Good Soldier’

      • Alejandra Navarro

      Pages 59-73

   4. The Hybrid Soldier: Identity Changes in the Military

      • Karl Haitiner, Gerhard Kümmel

      Pages 75-82

   5. New Roles for the Military: The Hellenic Armed Forces and the 2004 Olympic Games

      • Dimitrios Smokovitis

      Pages 83-88

   6. Rhetorical Persuasion and Storytelling in the Military

      • Giuseppe Caforio

      Pages 89-99

   7. New Methodological Approaches: Aspects of Online Questionnaires

      • Karl Hegner

      Pages 101-117

3. Civil-Military Relations

   1. The Public and the Military in Slovenia

      • Marjan Malešič, Vinko Vegič

      Pages 119-139

   2. Increasing Military Influence in Danish Civil-Military Relations

      • Henning Sørensen

      Pages 141-156

   3. To Go with the Flow? Change and Persistence in Patterns of Civil-Military Relations in Germany before and after the End of the Cold War

      • Sabine Collmer

      Pages 157-177

   4. Conscription in Germany Today: A Military Necessity or a Mere Symbol?

      • Paul Klein

      Pages 179-190

   5. Thinking Globally: U.S. Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Social Problems

      • Morten G. Ender, David E. Rohall, Michael D. Matthews

      Pages 191-210

   6. Public Opinion and European Security

      • Franz Kernic

      Pages 211-230

   7. From the ‘War on Terror’ to the Terror of War: Spanish Defense Policy after 9/11

      • Carlos Navajas Zubeldia

      Pages 231-244

   8. Disillusionment and Hope: A Brief Reminiscence about Perceptions of the Russian-American Relationship in the Second Term of Putin’s Presidency

      • Vladimir Rukavishnikov

      Pages 245-259

   9. Borders: Which in Between Most of Our Lives Has Gone

      • Stephan E. Nikolov

      Pages 261-288

4. Back Matter

   Pages 289-290

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It is an honor for us to introduce this collection of essays, which is dedicated to an old friend and colleague who is no longer with us. It is an honor, but also a pleasure because we feel like continuing a dialogue with Jürgen; one that has never broken down over the years, revisiting and recalling the diff- ent places and occasions where we met, discussed, collaborated and had fun. We, that is, Giuseppe Caforio, Christopher Dandeker and Gerhard Kümmel who have been friends and/or colleagues of and research collaborators with Jürgen and who represent three prominent institutions and organizations with which Jürgen worked, felt that this book is something we owe to Jürgen and we are grateful that many people who at different times and at different places had contact with Jürgen and his work were willing to contribute a chapter to this anthology. Most of Jürgen’s studies, professional work and research activities took place at the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences (SOWI). Jürgen, born in 1938, had joined the Bundeswehr in 1957 and had already worked at the SOWI’s predecessor institution, the Scientific Institute for Education in the Armed Forces from 1971 onwards after having finished his university? st- ies. Since this institute was renamed SOWI in 1974, Jürgen belonged to the first generation of researchers that worked at the SOWI.

• Armeeangehörige
• Beziehung
• Bundeswehr
• Identity
• Institution
• Soldier
• Zivilsektor
• organization
• organizations

Dr. Gerhard Kümmel is Senior Researcher at the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences (SOWI) in Strausberg near Berlin.
Dr. Giuseppe Caforio is President of the Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution (RC 01) within the International Sociological Association (ISA) and lives in Pisa.
Prof. PhD. Christopher Dandeker is Professor of Military Sociology in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.

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