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The Military and Liberal Society - Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe (Hardcover)
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The Military and Liberal Society - Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Cass Military Studies
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This book describes to what extent and in what ways the military
policies of Western European societies are determined by liberal
ideology. A wide variety of issues affected by liberal ideology,
including conscription, conscientious objection, military mission,
military ethics and the professional identity of soldiers are
addressed in the book. The empirical analysis draws on the cases of
the German Bundeswehr (from the 1950s onwards), the Swedish Armed
Forces (the transformation after the end of the Cold War), and the
British Armed Forces (from the beginning of the twentieth century
onwards). The book's examination of these cases reveals that
specific policies, institutions and practices are preferred because
of their relation to liberalism. Since Samuel Huntington's seminal
book The Soldier and the State the literature on civil-military
relations and military sociology depicts the relationship between
liberal ideology and military security as intrinsically
antithetical. This book is conceived as a critical debate with
Huntington. Contrary to the notion of antithetical
societal-military relationship, this book demonstrates that a
meaningful adaptation of the military to the principles possessed
by its parent society can be, more often than not, desirable also
from the perspective of security strategy. This book will be of
considerable interest to students of civil-military relations,
military sociology, Western European politics, security studies and
IR.
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