Armed Forces, Soldiers and Civil-Military Relations

The contributions to this anthology in honor of the late military sociologist Jürgen Kuhlmann focus on the soldier and his relations towards the armed forces and towards society. This individual - organization and individual - society nexus is explored from different angles by looking at different national and international contexts. The chapters to this volume thus help the academic as well as the practitioner and the interested reader to better understand the dynamics and the critical issues in this soldier - military - society triangle.

Essays in Honor of Jürgen Kuhlmann

Vorwort
Essays in Honor of Jürgen Kuhlmann

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Soldiers and Armed Forces.- Seeing Through the Stereotype: British Army Culture An Insider Anthropology.- 'My Pink Uniform Shows I am One of Them': Socio-Cultural Dimensions of German Peacekeeping Missions.- Looking for a New Identity in the Argentinean Army: The Image of the 'Good Soldier'.- The Hybrid Soldier: Identity Changes in the Military.- New Roles for the Military: The Hellenic Armed Forces and the 2004 Olympic Games.- Rhetorical Persuasion and Storytelling in the Military.- New Methodological Approaches: Aspects of Online Questionnaires.- Civil-Military Relations.- The Public and the Military in Slovenia.- Increasing Military Influence in Danish Civil-Military Relations.- 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.- Conscription in Germany Today: A Military Necessity or a Mere Symbol?.- Thinking Globally: U.S. Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Social Problems.- Public Opinion and European Security.- From the 'War on Terror' to the Terror of War: Spanish Defense Policy after 9/11.- Disillusionment and Hope: A Brief Reminiscence about Perceptions of the Russian-American Relationship in the Second Term of Putin's Presidency.- Borders: Which in Between Most of Our Lives Has Gone.