Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Cass Military Studies)

✍ Scribed by C Giuseppe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This innovative book presents the reader with a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. In this first title on its subject, leading expert Giuseppe Caforio offers a thorough analysis of the new aspects and trends of the social sciences in studying the military. Since the end of the Cold War, military operations other than war, crisis-response operations, the fight against terrorism, and hi-tech warfare have posed for the militaries of all countries a new set of human and social challenges and problems of an intensity that had never been seen in peacetime. Sociology, social psychology, anthropology and the science of conflict are grappling with these issues, common to all armed forces, with a new fervour. This new book offers an update on the state-of-the-art on this theme and defines the latest study and research trends in the field. Social Sciences and the Military contains essays by some of the most highly regarded scholars on the subject and will be essential reading for all students of civil-military relations, conflict resolution and military studies in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title: Social Sciences and the Military......Page 2
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
Part I General issues......Page 36
1 Challenges of the twenty-first century, social sciences and strategic thinking......Page 38
2 Current developments and trends in social research on the military1......Page 61
3 Military organization and culture from three perspectives......Page 82
4 Political science perspectives on the military and civil–military relations......Page 104
5 Social history and the armed forces......Page 120
6 From a psychological to a behavioural-sciences approach and beyond in military research......Page 138
7 The study of workgroups in the military......Page 159
Part II New issues and emerging trends......Page 176
8 Conceptual insecurity......Page 178
9 How the military can profit from management and organization science......Page 196
10 The military in post-communist societies in transition......Page 212
11 Trends and evolution in the military profession......Page 232
12 Women soldiers in a transcultural perspective......Page 253
13 Between legitimacy and efficiency......Page 276
Index......Page 302