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Military Legitimacy

Author : Rudolph C. Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780714646244
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Military Legitimacy written by Rudolph C. Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military legitimacy concerns the delicate balance between might and right. It begins with the law - operational law (OPLAW) and the law of war (LAW) - but it goes beyond the law to its moral underpinnings. Moral and cultural standards in the area of operations must be respected to ensure legitimacy. Personal and national values provide the framework for military decision making. The potential conflict between civilian and military perceptions of these values represents a continuing threat to military legitimacy because, in a democracy, public support is both a requirement and a measure of such legitimacy. This book provides an overview of the concept of legitimacy as it applies to military operations, especially in peacetime. It is argued that legitimacy was hardly an issue during the Cold War as it was defined in terms of combatting the Soviet threat. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and diminishing defence resources, there must be a new under-standing of military legitimacy and its relationship to new strategies. The diplomat-warrior personifies legitimacy in peacetime and is an effective means of filling the gap between the limits of diplomacy and conventional military operations.

Military Legitimacy

Author : Rudolph C. Barnes Jr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136302565
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Military Legitimacy written by Rudolph C. Barnes Jr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the challenges faced by the US military in responding to "operations other than war" in the post-Cold War era, Rudolph Barnes makes a plea for the US government to address the "organizational bias for combat" and "narrow traditionalist view of military professionalism" within the Pentagon, which, he argues, are serious obstacles to developing an effective capabiilty for operations other than war. He draws on examples from Vietnam to the mismanagement of US military involvement in Somalia.

Selling a 'Just' War

Author : M. Butler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374980
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Selling a 'Just' War written by M. Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy. He provides three post-Cold War examples of foreign policy crises: the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), Kosovo (1999), and Afghanistan (2001).

Military Legitimacy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)

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The Military and the Problem of Legitimacy

Author : Gwyn Harries-Jenkins
Publisher : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Military and the Problem of Legitimacy written by Gwyn Harries-Jenkins and published by Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications. This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En række indlæg fra en verdenskongres i Toronto i august 1974, hvor over 50 sociologer fra 24 lande drøftede de væbnede styrkers stilling i samfundet

Legitimacy and Commitment in the Military

Author : Thomas C. Wyatt
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313268150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy and Commitment in the Military written by Thomas C. Wyatt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative addition to the literature of military studies, this exploration of the issues of legitimacy and commitment in the military focuses on the contemporary military situation, critically analyzing current fault lines and future trends in this area. The editors, Thomas C. Wyatt and Reuven Gal, contend that post-World War II wars are different from the two wars preceding them, that the nontraditional wars in Algeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, Lebanon, the Falkland Islands, and Grenada, among others, can be characterized by issues of national concensus and home support, political debates, moral argumentations and counterargumentations, demonstrations and alienation, and conscientious objectors. In such wars, weapons systems, training, and tactics become secondary to issues of legitimacy and commitment. Military organizations, too, are different in that they are now prepared not only for wars but also for peace and peace-keeping missions that consist of police-type or constabulary tasks. Also, the volunteer army has largely replaced the army composed mainly of conscripts, and these better-educated soldiers are different in that they will examine carefully the sources of military legitimation before furnishing the unconditional commitment that is the backbone of the military fighting spirit. The volume's eleven chapters were contributed by an international group of leading behavioral scientists who write from the perspectives of a wide scope of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, anthropology, and military studies. The work is divided into three main parts that focus on some of the theoretical puzzles inherent in the combination of military ethics and moral values; assess sources of legitimacy and commitment; and detail the manifestation and measurement of commitment and legitimacy in a variety of nations and organizations. The subjects of conscientious objection, educational benefits, the Army Reserve, and the Vietnamese, U.S., Soviet, and Israeli armies are a few of the intriguing topics scrutinized here. As a whole, Legitimacy and Commitment in the Military provides an essential collection for the military student, the scholar, the soldier, and military professionals who aspire to leadership. The various individual chapters offer unique insights for students and researchers in the fields of ethics, history, anthropology, and the behavioral sciences.

The Legitimate Use of Military Force

Author : Howard M. Hensel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317025865
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimate Use of Military Force written by Howard M. Hensel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, scholars, statesmen and military leaders have attempted to define what constitutes the legitimate use of armed force by one community against another. Moreover, if force is to be used, what normative guidelines should govern the conduct of warfare? Based upon the assumption that armed conflict is a human enterprise and therefore subject to human limitations, the Western 'just war tradition' represents an attempt to provide these guidelines. Following on from the success of Hensel's earlier publication, The Law of Armed Conflict, this volume brings together an internationally recognized team of scholars to explore the philosophical and societal foundations of just war tradition. It relates the principles of jus ad bellum to contemporary issues confronting the global community and explores the relationship between the principles of jus in bello and the various principles embodied in the customary law of armed conflict. Applying an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing and assessing the links between just war and the norms of behaviour, the book provides a valuable contribution to international law, international relations and national security studies.

Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force

Author : Chiyuki Aoi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113523311X
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force written by Chiyuki Aoi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the intervening force must create a sense of legitimacy of the mission among the various constituencies concerned with and involved in the venture. These parties include the people of the host nation, the host government (whose relations with the local people must be legitimate), political elites and the general public worldwide—including the intervening parties’ own domestic constituencies, who will sustain (or not sustain) the intervention by offering (or withdrawing) support. This book seeks to bring into close scrutiny the legitimacy of stability interventions in the post-Cold War era, by proposing a concept that captures both the multi-faceted nature of legitimacy and the process of legitimation that takes place in each case. Case studies on Liberia, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Iraq explain how legitimacy related to the outcome of these operations. This book will be of much interest to students of stability operations, counterinsurgency, peace operations, humanitarian intervention, and IR/security studies in general.

Armed Groups and International Legitimacy

Author : William Plowright
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
ISBN 13 : 9780367649395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Armed Groups and International Legitimacy written by William Plowright and published by Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the issue of child soldiers in order to understand how armed groups engage with international organizations to gain international legitimacy. The work examines why some armed groups 'follow the rules' of international humanitarian law and others do not. It argues that armed groups in conflicts around the world engage with international organizations in order to gain international legitimacy and to show they are following the laws of war. By examining the issue of child soldiers in contemporary armed conflict, the volume establishes a typology of which groups will engage with international actors and follow the laws of war - and which will not. The main aim of the book is to understand the rationality of even the most violent of actors, and to understand when and how armed groups can be encouraged to follow the laws of war. The work draws from extensive primary research conducted among armed groups in Syria and Myanmar, including al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the many small ethnic insurgent groups of Myanmar. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, security studies, international humanitarian law, and International Relations.

Base Politics

Author : Alexander Cooley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457238
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Base Politics written by Alexander Cooley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases to smaller and much more numerous bases across the globe. This so-called lily-pad strategy, designed to allow high-speed reactions to military emergencies anywhere in the world, has provoked significant debate in military circles and sometimes-fierce contention within the polity of the host countries. In Base Politics, Alexander Cooley examines how domestic politics in different host countries, especially in periods of democratic transition, affect the status of U.S. bases and the degree to which the U.S. military has become a part of their local and national landscapes. Drawing on exhaustive field research in different host nations across East Asia and Southern Europe, as well as the new postcommunist base hosts in the Black Sea and Central Asia, Cooley offers an original and provocative account of how and why politicians in host countries contest or accept the presence of the U.S. military on their territory. Overseas bases, Cooley shows, are not merely installations that serve a military purpose. For host governments and citizens, U.S. bases are also concrete institutions and embodiments of U.S. power, identity, and diplomacy. Analyzing the degree to which overseas bases become enmeshed in local political agendas and interests, Base Politics will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the extent—and limits—of America's overseas military influence.

International Legitimacy and the Politics of Security

Author : Alan Craig
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073917147X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book International Legitimacy and the Politics of Security written by Alan Craig and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delegitimation has become the new battleground for Israel and the critics of Israeli military operations. But the Israeli experience reveals a more general engagement where all states act strategically to build legitimacy for their policies and all resist attempts at delegitimation. To understand these processes it is necessary to see how politicized moral and legal judgments shape both the use of force by states and our judgments about the means and the outcomes. This is a book about legitimacy, military lawyers, and security. More particularly, it is about how the legitimacy of Israel’s asymmetric military operations cannot be detached from the politics of law and ethics. Sometimes it is enough that states respect the laws of armed conflict, but at other times they may be held to a higher standard. This does not happen in a vacuum. Rather it is the product of political engagement in the murky politics of international legitimacy where standards are negotiable and some states get a harder time than others. There is a strong theoretical analysis underpinning a discussion that constantly returns to the practical problems of modern armed conflict where combatants hide among civilians and states complain about the unrealistic expectations of human rights NGOs. Here, the law is unclear and there are choices to be made. The book presents new research into the involvement of Israeli military lawyers in operational targeting decision making that has life and death consequences. The case studies concern targeted killing during the Second Intifada, Israel’s 2006 Lebanon War, the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and, finally, the 2010 Israeli maritime interception of the ‘Turkish Flotilla’ to Gaza. The investigation identifies a struggle between the proponents of human rights in war and those who promote the rights of states to deploy military force for the security of their citizens. But not all parties to a military conflict are held to the same standards. In fact, the analysis maps a complex political deployment of law and ethics in the strategic calculation of legitimacy costs and the diplomatic processes whereby they are contested, with policy implications for those in charge of the design and execution of military operations.

Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe

Author : A. Forster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230523080
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe written by A. Forster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping patterns of military-society relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by international experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

War and Democratization

Author : Wolfgang Merkel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317990366
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book War and Democratization written by Wolfgang Merkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotion of democracy in post-war and post-conflict societies became a topic during the 1990s. The book deals with the legality, legitimacy and effectiveness of military interventions where the international community of states not only felt impelled to engage in military humanitarian or peace-building missions but also in long-term state- and democracy-building. External actors particularly engaged in four modes, namely enforcing democratization by enduring post-war occupation (mode 1); restoring an elected government by military intervention (mode 2); intervening in on-going massacres and civil war with military forces (‘humanitarian intervention’) and thereby curbing the national sovereignty of those countries (mode 3) and forcing democracy on rogue states by ‘democratic intervention’, in other words democracy through war (mode 4). The contributions link juridical and philosophical reflections on just war ad bellum with empirical evidence post bellum in Afghanistan, Georgia, Serbia, Croatia, Cambodia and East Timor. All empirical analyses stress the complexity and difficulties to establish democracy in post-conflict societies driven or monitored by external actors. Such an endeavour implies a comprehensive agenda of political, social, and economic methods of peace-building. However, if external actors withdraw before the roots of democracy are deep enough and before democratic institutions are strong enough to stand alone, then the entire endeavour may fail. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

CORRUPTION, LEGITIMACY, AND STABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE U.S. ARMY.

Author : Shima D. Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book CORRUPTION, LEGITIMACY, AND STABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE U.S. ARMY. written by Shima D. Keene and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deconstructing Legitimacy

Author : Patricia H. Marks
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271032108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Legitimacy written by Patricia H. Marks and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overthrow of Viceroy Joaqun de la Pezuela on 29 January 1821 has not received much attention from historians, who have tended to view it as a simple military uprising. Yet in this careful study of the episode, based on deep archival research, Patricia Marks reveals it to be a pivotal event in the emerging commercial conflict between liberal free-traders and protectionists that retarded the establishment of a stable national state in post-independence Peru. The overthrow of the viceroy thereby may be seen as an early manifestation of Latin American praetorianism, in which a particular sector of the civilian population, unable to prevail politically and unwilling to compromise, pressures army officers to act in order to save the state.

War and War Crimes

Author : James Gow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231701358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book War and War Crimes written by James Gow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Necessity and proportionality inform the laws of war, but how do these principles work in modern warfare? What new pressures do the practitioners of war face, especially in light of rapid changes in strategy and policy and an increasing emphasis on ethics and legality? Wars waged in fluctuating environments make the legitimacy of armed force hard to justify, especially among diverse international and transnational publics. More than ever, strategy has come to embrace justice and law as crucial components of military success, but legitimacy is fragile and easily contested, and today's militaries struggle to respond positively, consistently, and legally to an ever-shifting dynamic. Drawing on empirical research and interviews with seasoned military professionals, this volume describes how militaries can work successfully within the politics-law-strategy nexus to foster and maintain a sense of legitimacy in war. James Gow clearly defines the mutual relationship between wars and their outcomes, pinpointing the moment when a war act becomes a war crime, especially within multidimensional combat. Taking an initial, bold step in reconciling a troubling and taboo issue, Gow provides strategists, policymakers, and others with a framework for mitigating negative outcomes.

Legitimising the Use of Force in International Politics

Author : Corneliu Bjola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135256853
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Legitimising the Use of Force in International Politics written by Corneliu Bjola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations. Drawing on communicative action theory, it provides a provocative answer to the hotly contested question of how to understand the legitimacy of the use of force in international politics. The use of force is one of the most critical and controversial aspects of international politics. Scholars and policy-makers have long tried to develop meaningful standards capable of restricting the use of force to a legally narrow yet morally defensible set of circumstances. However, these standards have recently been challenged by concerns over how the international community should react to gross human rights abuses or to terrorist threats. This book argues that current legal and moral standards on the use of force are unable to effectively deal with these challenges. The author argues that the concept of 'deliberative legitimacy', understood as the non-coerced commitment of an actor to abide by a decision reached through a process of communicative action, offers the most appropriate framework for addressing this problem. The theoretical originality and empirical value of the concept of deliberative legitimacy comes fully into force with the examination of two of the most severe international crises from the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo and the 2003 US military action against Iraq. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, ethics, international law, discourse theory and IR. Corneliu Bjola is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, and has a PhD in International Relations.