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Title Details:
Contemporary Defence Analysis
Other Titles: The State, Defence and the Armed Forces
Authors: Ragies, Ioannis
Reviewer: Ziogas, Christos
Subject: LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FIELDS OF POLICY > MILITARY POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FIELDS OF POLICY > DEFENSE POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FOREIGN POLICY > FOREIGN POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FOREIGN POLICY > FOREIGN POLICY > EUROPEAN UNION (EU) FOREIGN POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM > GEOPOLITICS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS
Keywords:
Defence management
Military transformation
Defence interdependence / dependence / vulnerability dependence
Crisis leadership
Military diplomacy / defence diplomacy
Psychology of weakness
Militarization
Science of war (War science)
Civil-Military Relations
International public policy
Strategic surprise
Diplomacy of surprise
Entrapment
Field diplomacy
Multinational military exercises
Mutual assistance clause
Solidarity clause
Epistemic communities
Description:
Abstract:
This Book analyses modern approaches to State defence in contemporary security environment. Based on the concept ‘defence management’, the build-up of a ‘planning, implementation and evaluation’ framework for defence policy is attempted. Innovative concepts are analyzed as they evolve within Military Alliances, Supra-national Unions, Regimes and Systems. Deterrence Strategy is approached and its credibility is evaluated, especially in crisis contexts. The basic planning framework for defence policy and military strategy is analyzed while all possible State choices are described. Critical concepts are being approached while ‘political, military & economic’ logic is evaluated and its credibility when applied. The term ‘strategic risk’ is investigated, while concepts like victory, winning, winner are being approached. The classic framework for the ‘management of inter-state crises’ is analyzed and revised, while critical elements in this process are approached: escalation - de-escalation - inadvertent war. Issues like ‘political/democratic control over the Armed Forces’ and ‘accountability’ are raised while emphasis is given to the field of ‘crisis leadership’. A framework of ‘building a military/strategic culture’ is constructed, as it develops in parallel with ‘Civil-Military Relations/CMR’. The framework for implementing contemporary military diplomacy -operational engagement of the AFs- is analyzed, as well as defence diplomacy -organized and focused MoD activity. NATO’s -a military alliance- policy and strategy planning framework is analyzed and also its function – evolution during Cold War. Based on the North Atlantic Treaty/NAT, issues like, ‘commitments, obligations’ and possible ‘Treaty conflicts’ are approached. Concerning European Integration -differentiated in the defence field- an explanation of the build-up and function of CFSP/CSDP is offered, while the prospect of a ‘common European defence policy/common European defence’ is explored. The prospect of a ‘Defence Union’ ‘final stage’ of the political and defence integration of EU-, is approached. These concepts are analyzed in conjunction with ‘Security and Defence Union’.
Linguistic Editors: Iordanidou, Dossy
Graphic Editors: Meimaroglou, Antonis
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 03-04-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-5726-74-4
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-197
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9307
Bibliographic Reference: Ragies, I. (2023). Contemporary Defence Analysis [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-197
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Defence Policy
2. Military Strategy
3. Leadership
4. The Armed Forces
5. Supranational Defence Integration
Number of pages 392
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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