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Notions of Neutralities (Hardcover)
Pascal Lottaz, Herbert R. Reginbogin; Contributions by Oliver Bange, Elizabeth Chadwick, Tvrtko Jakovina, …
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Neutrality serves different purposes during times of war and peace.
'Notions of Neutralities' portrays those historical challenges that
neutrals faced, and are still facing, to maintain some form of
economic stability and political order as chaos and wars rage.
Neutrals are exposed to existential issues and questions of
civil-society, international politics, and morality, in a world
defiant to principles of universal peace. Every age has its own
armed conflicts and while the questions they raise are often the
same, the answers are different because the international word
order changes. Is neutrality justifiable even when the humanity of
civilization is at risk as in the Second World War or the wars of
the post-Cold War era? Can those who refuse the call to arms still
act by providing humanitarian services to contain the impact of war
or, on the contrary, are neutrals shut-off from global politics -
mere weaklings that "suffer what they must?" This book addresses
such questions through an interdisciplinary scholarship by some of
the world's foremost experts on neutrality. Twelve chapters tackle
different but profound aspects of the concept over a span of five
hundred years. They succinctly show the evolution of international
norms in the context of war and peace. What is more, the essays
portray fundamental categories of thinking about a variety of
neutralities that the international system has produced in the past
and present. The authors discuss the complexities of neutrality,
providing a new and refreshing understanding of international
relations and security for the past as well as for the multipolar
world of the twenty-first century.
This book has as its subject matter the academic education of
officers and builds on the signing of the Bologna Declaration in
1999 by twenty-nine European ministers for Education and Science,
who thereby agreed to coordinate higher education across Europe,
by, for instance, the implementation of the Bachelor's and Master's
system. In the meantime, military academies have also introduced
the BaMa system into their programs for officers' education, which
marks a transition from the old days, when officers' education took
place within a national military system, under military command,
and was firmly grounded in principles, traditions and needs, as
professed by the Ministries of Defence and the armed forces in
particular. So the Bologna Declaration can be seen as crucial
leverage for the development of in-house academic degree programs
as a fundamental part of officers' education. With this volume, the
editors of NL ARMS 2019 strive to offer a platform to both
academics and military and civilian practitioners, as well as to
combinations of these, to reflect and share their thoughts on
officers' education `before and after' Bologna, both in The
Netherlands and abroad. To this end, controversies and challenges,
affecting various aspects and systems of officers' education, have
been grouped into five themes. Respectively, the first four themes
comprise institutional settings and change; educational philosophy;
educational challenges and reflective practices; and didactical
solutions. The fifth theme, international perspectives, provides
insights into the strategic environments and challenges faced by
sister-academies, as well as ways to further officers' education
across Europe, such as offered by Erasmus programs. All the editors
of this year's volume are affiliated with the Faculty of Military
Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda, The
Netherlands.
This book has as its subject matter the academic education of
officers and builds on the signing of the Bologna Declaration in
1999 by twenty-nine European ministers for Education and Science,
who thereby agreed to coordinate higher education across Europe,
by, for instance, the implementation of the Bachelor's and Master's
system. In the meantime, military academies have also introduced
the BaMa system into their programs for officers' education, which
marks a transition from the old days, when officers' education took
place within a national military system, under military command,
and was firmly grounded in principles, traditions and needs, as
professed by the Ministries of Defence and the armed forces in
particular. So the Bologna Declaration can be seen as crucial
leverage for the development of in-house academic degree programs
as a fundamental part of officers' education. With this volume, the
editors of NL ARMS 2019 strive to offer a platform to both
academics and military and civilian practitioners, as well as to
combinations of these, to reflect and share their thoughts on
officers' education `before and after' Bologna, both in The
Netherlands and abroad. To this end, controversies and challenges,
affecting various aspects and systems of officers' education, have
been grouped into five themes. Respectively, the first four themes
comprise institutional settings and change; educational philosophy;
educational challenges and reflective practices; and didactical
solutions. The fifth theme, international perspectives, provides
insights into the strategic environments and challenges faced by
sister-academies, as well as ways to further officers' education
across Europe, such as offered by Erasmus programs. All the editors
of this year's volume are affiliated with the Faculty of Military
Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda, The
Netherlands.
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