Beschreibung
Designed as a textbook and interdisciplinary reference for
the social sciences, this volume examines key issues in the
current global security agenda and relationships between
armed forces and society around the world. The book’s
concise chapters – on a broad range of themes related to
national and international security, military sociology, and
civil-military relations – were written by experts from 18
countries around the world. This volume also has a
groundbreaking section, which – using country studies and
regional overviews – discusses civil-military relations in
as well as the most salient theoretical and practical
features of current means of democratic control of the armed
forces in the early 21st century.
