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Transforming Warriors : The ritual organisation of military force
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their differences, all societies grapple with the same question: how much of the individual's peace-self should be and can be retained in the state of war? The book explores cases such as the Nordic berserkers, the Japanese samurai, and European knights, as well as modern soldiers in Germany, Liberia, and Sweden. It shows that archaic and modern societies are more similar than we usually think: both kinds of societies use myths, symbols, and rituals to create warriors. Thus, this volume seeks to redefine theories of modernization and secularization. It shows that military organizations need to take myths, symbols, and rituals seriously in order to create effective units. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war studies, sociology, religion, and international relations in general.
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1648 : Den westfaliska freden : arv, kontext och konsekvenser
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Westfaliska freden år 1648 är ett av den europeiska och svenska historiens mest välkända årtal. Slutet på trettioåriga kriget och de fördrag som beseglade uppgörelsen har tolkats, framförallt inom statsvetenskapen, som början på den moderna eran inom internationell politik och som ett dramatiskt brott mot det förmoderna sättet att bedriva politik.I 1648 - Den westfaliska freden introducerar författarna en nytolkning av fredsfördragen som betonar hur dokumenten befäster och utgör en fortsättning på äldre tiders politiska former. Detta nya perspektiv står i stark kontrast mot den traditionella synen på freden. I boken hävdar skribenterna att den tidigare statsvetenskapliga tolkningen är förlegad och bygger på missuppfattningar av centrala delar av de westfaliska avtalen. För studiet av internationell politik bör det nyare synsättet anläggas.
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- Egnell, Robert, 1975-, et al.
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Contextualising international state-building
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Ingår i: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 10:4, s. 431-441
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- Egnell, Robert, 1975-, et al.
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Laudable, ahistorical and overambitious : Security sector reform meets state formation theory.
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Ingår i: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 9:1, s. 27-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Security sector reform (SSR) is a concept that is highly visible within policy and practice circles and that increasingly shapes international programmes for development assistance, security co-operation and democracy promotion. This paper examines the concept and practice of SSR using theories of the state and state formation within a historical-philosophical perspective. The paper recognises that the processes of SSR are highly laudable and present great steps forward towards more holistic conceptions of security and international development. However, the main argument of the paper is that we should be careful of having too high expectations of the possibility of SSR fulfilling its ambitious goals of creating states that are both stable and democratic and accountable. Instead, we should carefully determine what level of ambition is realistic for each specific project depending on local circumstances. A further argument of this paper is that legitimate order and functioning state structures are prerequisites and preconditions for successful democratisation and accountability reforms within the security sector.
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- Haldén, Peter, 1977-
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A Call for Hermeneutical Perspectives on Climate Change and Conflict : The Case of Ethiopia and Eritrea
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Ingår i: Journal of International Relations and Development. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1408-6980 .- 1581-1980. ; 15:1, s. 1-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on climate change and conflict has been conducted in ways that may lead us to overlook risks of conflicts and miss opportunities to prevent them. In response, this article formulates an analytical framework based on hermeneutical perspectives on social action.The main argument is that climate factors are not the main drivers of conflict under conditions of climate change. Instead, the main mechanisms are how actors interpret their historical experiences and roles as guides for future actions and how international structures shape the scope of action in a constitutive fashion.Previous research has tended to construct the past as an objective assemblage of occurrences. However, the past can never be an ‘objective’ series of events and causal connections. Actors always interpret the past and construct it as meaning-laden history. History, in turn, is fundamentally ambiguous; it can be constructed as a story that has to be continued or one that needs to be broken with. An analysis of the relation between Ethiopia and Eritrea illustrates the theoretical framework. It concludes that despite their past enmity, there is no imminent risk of conflict in connection with climate change but strong reasons for both actors to maintain status quo.
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- Haldén, Peter, 1977-
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A non-sovereign modernity : Attempts to engineer stability in the Balkans 1820-1890
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Ingår i: Review of International Studies. - 0260-2105 .- 1469-9044. ; 39:2, s. 337-359
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social theory almost invariably equates modernity with the sovereign state. This equation must be nuanced because the modern era and modern strategies of international stability have contained non-sovereign units. In the nineteenth century, the Great Powers tried to create international stability by engineering forms of rule in Europe. These strategies built on distinctively modern ideas: the possibility of radically breaking with the past, redesigning political organisations, and actively controlling political events through rational planning. Throughout the century the Great Powers alternated between creating non-sovereign units and creating sovereign units as instruments in these stabilising strategies. The degree of trust between the Great Powers accounts for the shift between the two strategies: they tended to create non-sovereign units when mutual trust was high and sovereign ones when trust was low. This article analyses Great Power strategies of designing forms of rule in the Balkans between 1820 and 1878. Like in previous centuries, nineteenth-century Europe actually consisted of two parallel but connected systems: the egalitarian system of sovereign states and a system of non-sovereign entities. Non-sovereign units disappeared only late in the century and this process was affected by the increasing rivalry and mistrust between the sovereign states.
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