Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies – serie
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Coping with Geopolitical Decline
The United States in European Perspective
Häftad, 2020
481 kr
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How great powers react to their inevitable decline shapes their own destiny as well as the course of international politics. Leaders can decide to engage with others or isolate themselves; to build alliances or initiate war; to stoke up nationalism or invest in innovation; to focus on economic …
Rivals in Arms
The Rise of UK-France Defence Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2020
412 kr
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As the UK leaves the European Union and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Among such relationships, the UK-France partnership has become particularly critical in the past decades. Alice Pannier's Rivals in Arms reveals the …
Why We Fight
New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare
Av Robert C. Engen, H. Christian Breede m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
453 kr
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For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight. Yet the specific Canadian context, …
Outsourcing Control
The Politics of International Migration Cooperation
Inbunden, 2020
956 kr
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When the European Union signed an agreement with Turkey in 2016 to end irregular migration from Syria using extraterritorial measures, the media framed it as a radical new low in migrant protection. Similarly, when then presidential candidate Donald Trump called on Mexico to "pay for the wall," …
Canada As Statebuilder?
Development and Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan
Häftad, 2021
453 kr
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Canada's statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan are not well documented. After fourteen years of significant investments in humanitarian causes, there are still questions about the impact of these projects and whether they delivered as promised or fell short.In Canada as Statebuilder? Laura Grant and …
Women, Peace, and Security
Feminist Perspectives on International Security
Av Caroline Leprince, Cassandra Steer
Häftad, 2021
412 kr
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Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones. Women, Peace, and Security lays the groundwork for this enhanced participation, …
Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces
International Perspectives on Immigrant Participation in the Military
Inbunden, 2022
1458 kr
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While countries throughout the world rely on immigrants to support their populations and economies, access to the military is limited, denied to those who have not yet acquired citizenship.Precluding immigrants from serving in their host country's armed forces is an issue of moral equity and …
Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces
International Perspectives on Immigrant Participation in the Military
Häftad, 2022
412 kr
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While countries throughout the world rely on immigrants to support their populations and economies, access to the military is limited, denied to those who have not yet acquired citizenship.Precluding immigrants from serving in their host country's armed forces is an issue of moral equity and …
Ones We Let Down
Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces
Inbunden, 2022
1458 kr
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In 2021, a sexual misconduct scandal struck the Canadian military, leading to a profound crisis in leadership. While some more recent allegations came to light before the #MeToo movement, these latest revelations have historical roots in the 1990s, an era known to service members as the "decade of …
Ones We Let Down
Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces
Häftad, 2022
384 kr
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In 2021, a sexual misconduct scandal struck the Canadian military, leading to a profound crisis in leadership. While some more recent allegations came to light before the #MeToo movement, these latest revelations have historical roots in the 1990s, an era known to service members as the "decade of …
Postcards from the Western Front
Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War
Inbunden, 2022
1616 kr
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Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World …
Postcards from the Western Front
Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists After the Great War
Häftad, 2022
481 kr
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Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World …
Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century
Av Joakim Berndtsson, Irina Goldenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1569 kr
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Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse workforce of defence and security professionals, are critical to both national defence and …
Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century
Av Joakim Berndtsson, Irina Goldenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
495 kr
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Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse workforce of defence and security professionals, are critical to both national defence and …
Going to War?
Trends in Military Interventions
Av Stéfanie von Hlatky, H. Christian Breede
Häftad, 2016
442 kr
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Going to War? investigates the reasons why countries enter conflicts by considering the depth and complexity of issues surrounding military deployments. Showing how such conditions affect future decisions about the use of force, contributors to this volume study recent experiences with military …
War Memories
Commemoration, Recollections, and Writings on War
Av Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger, Renée Dickason
Häftad, 2017
554 kr
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War Memories explores the patchwork formed by collective memory, public remembrance, private recollection, and the ways in which they form a complex composition of observations, initiatives, and experiences. Offering an international perspective on war commemoration, contributors consider the …
Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq
Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases
Häftad, 2017
440 kr
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In 2003, just before the start of the US invasion of Iraq, military planners predicted that the mission's success would depend on using diverse sources for their workforce. While thousands of US troops were needed to secure victory in the field, large numbers of civilian contractors – many from …
Violence and Militants
From Ottoman Rebellions to Jihadist Organizations
Av Baris Cayli
Inbunden, 2019
495 kr
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How do militants rationalize violence and what are their motives? How do time and space shape their destiny? In Violence and Militants Baris Cayli explores these enduring questions by comparing violent episodes in towns and villages in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Balkans with today's zones of …
Frontline Justice
The Evolution and Reform of Summary Trials in the Canadian Armed Forces
Häftad, 2020
404 kr
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Compared with its civilian counterpart - which struggles with delays and uncertain results - summary military justice is efficient. From offence until outcome, 90 per cent of cases are dealt with in less than ninety days. The other side of the coin is that there is no right to representation by …
Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism
Assessing Domestic and International Strategies
Häftad, 2020
384 kr
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Since 9/11, counterterrorism has become a national and international priority. Research on violent extremism and terrorism, from homegrown threats to foreign fighters, has adapted accordingly but has not always translated into policymaking. Extremism can be traced to no single cause, and yet …
Transhumanizing War
Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy, Society, and the Soldier
Av H. Christian Breede, Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
510 kr
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The concept of soldier enhancement often invokes images of dystopian futures populated with dehumanized military personnel. These futures serve as warnings in science fiction works, and yet the enhancement of soldiers' combat capability is almost as old as war itself. Today, soldier enhancement is …
Why We Fight
New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare
Av Robert C. Engen, H. Christian Breede m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1616 kr
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For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight. Yet the specific Canadian context, …
Canada As Statebuilder?
Development and Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2021
1616 kr
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Canada's statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan are not well documented. After fourteen years of significant investments in humanitarian causes, there are still questions about the impact of these projects and whether they delivered as promised or fell short.In Canada as Statebuilder? Laura Grant and …
Women, Peace, and Security
Feminist Perspectives on International Security
Av Caroline Leprince, Cassandra Steer
Inbunden, 2021
1458 kr
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Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones. Women, Peace, and Security lays the groundwork for this enhanced participation, …
War and Remembrance
Recollecting and Representing War
Av Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1616 kr
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Memory, while seemingly a thing of the past, has much to reveal in the present. With its focus on memory, War and Remembrance provides new viewpoints in the field of war representation.Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of the cultural memory of war, the collection focuses on …
Bombs, Bullets, and Politicians
France's Response to Terrorism
Inbunden, 2016
398 kr
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In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, the mainstream political elite in Washington, DC acquiesced to every major decision taken by George W. Bush's administration while partisan politics in Congress ceased. As a nation and its representatives rallied around their leader, the diversity of …
Transhumanizing War
Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy, Society, and the Soldier
Av H. Christian Breede, Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1616 kr
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The concept of soldier enhancement often invokes images of dystopian futures populated with dehumanized military personnel. These futures serve as warnings in science fiction works, and yet the enhancement of soldiers' combat capability is almost as old as war itself. Today, soldier enhancement is …
