The changing face of European conscription
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The changing face of European conscription
Ashgate, c2006
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Conscription is seen as forming a site and an issue-area around which different identities are struggled over and core political relations established in a security-related context. The unravelling of conscription thus unavoidably pertains to a set of essential ideational issues and has significance far beyond the military sphere. The contributors to this book explore the more profound issues such as the meaning of conscription in the context of the increasingly feeble relationship between the state and the nation. The analysis relates the question of changes or lack of change in recruitment to broader social, political and cultural issues, thereby breaking new ground. Attention not only focuses on what the military manpower systems do, but also on what they represent. As such, conscription has meaning far beyond the sphere of military affairs.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: unpacking conscription, Pertti Joenniemi
- Farewell to conscription? the case of Denmark, Pertti Joenniemi
- National or international? contending discourses on Finnish conscription, Kari Laitinen
- The rise and death of conscription: the case of France, Jean-Philippe Lecomte
- Resisting change: the politics of conscription in contemporary Germany, Kerry Longhurst
- The power of the draft: a century of changing legitimacy of Norway's armed forces, Karsten Friis
- Enduring conscription: vagueness and VArnplikt in Sweden, Anna Leander
- The Swedish military manpower policies and their gender implications, Annica Kronsell and Erika Svedberg
- Conclusion: national lexica of conscription, Anna Leander and Pertti Joenniemi
- Index.
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