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The end of the Cold War has fundamentally challenged the security realm on either side of the former political border. The new Eastern democracies, formerly tied into the satellite system of the Soviet Union, had to reorganise the principles of their security policies and reshape the civil-military relationship within their polity.
In the same vein, the breakdown of the Iron Curtain caused a necessity also for the Western European countries to rethink the conventional goals and strategies that had determined their security concepts till 1990. The tasks, structures and roles of the armed forces have become adjusted anew since then; the integration processes in the context of EU and NATO enlargement and new missions have contributed further to dramatic changes in the field of how democratic societies conceptualise and make use of that institution, which plays an extremely important role in war and peace, i.e. their armed forces.
While traditional research on the military in democracy has been interested mostly in the conditions under which the military could influence civil society and politics to an undesirable degree, our conference turns the table. It will focus on the changing political circumstances that affect the position of the military in the democratic polity and in its foreign, or security policy. To this end we look first into the widespread re-definitions of security and the objects of defense in the post-cold war era, and ask what they imply for democratic civil-military relations. In a second step we address the consequences which unconventional mission types such as the ‘humanitarian intervention’ render for the military role conception: Is the humanitarian warrior about to become the new soldierly role model?
Information on participating / attending:
Due to limited space registration is required by November, 8th:
Friederike Klinke (klinke@hsfk.de)
Date:
11/12/2010 11:45 - 11/12/2010 19:00
Registration deadline:
11/08/2010
Event venue:
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Baseler Str. 27-31
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Hessen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
10/12/2010
Sender/author:
Babette Knauer
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit & Fundraising
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event32893
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