Advances in military sociology : essays in honor of Charles C. Moskos / [edited by] Giuseppe Caforio.

Selected papers from International Sociological Association, RC 01 section meeting, held at Seoul, Korea in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

pt. A. Charles C. Moskos (1934-2008) / Laura Miller -- The glocalization of bereavement: bereaved families, economic discourse and the hierarchy of Israeli casualties / Udi Lebel -- part I: Building and sustaining peace. Many views on peace / Bandana Purkayastha -- Soldiers and scholars in a world of growing interdependence / John Allen Williams -- Conflict, peacemaking and the dynamics of humiliation / Dennis Smith -- Turning enemies into friends: the role of economic relationships in building security and sustaining peace / Lloyd J. Dumas -- The military role in the amnesty, reconciliation, and reintegration (AR2) process: an expanded framework analysis / Michael W. Mosser -- part 2. International military cooperation and peacekeeping operations. Cultural and political challenges in military missions: how officers view multiculturality in armed forces / Tibor Szvircsev Tresch -- Latin America in peacekeeping operations: a sociopolitical overview / Marina Malamud Feinsilber -- Polish military forces in peacekeeping missions and military operations other than war: experiences after 2000 / Marcin Sinczuch, Marian Kloczkowski, Mariusz Wachowicz --South Korean experiences in peacekeeping and plan for the future / Kyudok Hong -- Hungarian experiences from peacekeeping in Afghanistan / Zoltan Laszlo Kiss -- Greece's contribution to the Korean War (1950-1955) / Dimitrios Smokovitis -- ESDP and Russia: a decade of unfulfilled promise / Sandra Fernandes -- part III: Social, professional and political aspects of asymmetric warfare. Asymmetric warfare: an introduction / Giuseppe Caforio -- Expeditionary military networks and asymmetric warfare / Paul C. van Fenema -- Payday in the Afghan National Army: from Western administrative liabilities to local realities / Christiaan Davids, Joseph Soeters -- New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare / Wilbur J. Scott, George R. Mastroianni, David R. McCone -- Interaction rituals and language mediation during peace missions: experiences from Afghanistan / Iris Hoedemaekers, Joseph Soeters -- New ways of military thinking and acting for a better world: new models: preparing forces to master unavoidable transitions / Hermann Jung -- The asymmetric answers (with the focus on Russia's rhetoric and actions) /Vladimir Rukavishnikov -- The symmetries of asymmetry: myths surrounding the notion of asymmetric war / Antulio J. Echevarria.

pt. B. part I. The military profession in transition: conscription and all volunteer forces. End of conscription and problems of manning: the case of Slovenian Armed Forces / Uroš Svete, Ljubica Jelušič -- Managing diversity in all-volunteer forces: theoretical perspectives, institutional assessment and policy implications / Yantsislav Yanakiev -- General conscription in Finland after 2008: some reasons behind Finland's population's and conscripts' attitudes towards general conscription / Olli Harinen, Jukka Leskinen -- Changes in military profession in Latin American countries / Omar Gutiérrez -- part II. Public opinion and security issues .Slovene public opinion about security issues: a coincidence or a consistent pattern? / Marjan Malešič, Vinko Vegič -- Institutionalising European defence: main trends in European public perceptions in the age of the global war on terror / Yantsislav Yanakiev -- Between alliance and home front considerations: the German armed forces and security-related opinion polls / Sabine Collmer -- part III: Women in the military profession and military families. Women in conflictual situations in the war-torn Darfur, Sudan / Oluyemi O. Fayomi -- Gender integration policies in the armed forces: a double-edged sword? / Helena Carreiras -- Women in the military profession: The Greek case / L. Nicolaou-Smokoviti -- Thirty years of gender integration: cadet perceptions of women at the U.S. Air Force Academy / David R. McCone, Wilbur J. Scott -- Parents' voice: the intergenerational relationship, worry, appraisal of the deployment, and support among parents of deployed personnel / Manon Andres, René Moelker -- Military families and deployments abroad in Italy / Marina Nuciari, Guido Sertorio -- part IV. The military in the Asian context. Pakistani military's role in the Asian context / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Military educational institutions and their role in the reproduction of inequality in the Philippines / Leslie V. Advincula-Lopez -- A basis of Mongolian defense policy and armed forces for self-defense / Turtogtoh Janar -- Foreign aid, war/military, and state building of cold war Taiwan: in search of a theoretical and comparative framework / Yu-Wen Fan -- From military professionalism to coup d'etat: concordance theory in India and Pakistan / Rebecca L. Schiff -- Whose job, what job? Security sector performance in a local Communist frontline in central Philippines / Rosalie Arcala Hall -- EU harmonisation reforms, democratisation and a new modality of civil-military relations in Turkey / Nilufer Narli -- The convergence and divergence in perceptions of security issues by military professionals and civilians in South Korea / Doo-Seung Hong, Chon-Hwan Chong -- Civil-military relations of modern Korea: from a patriarchal army to a professional army / Mahn-Geum Ohn -- Civil-military relations of Korea in the 21st Century / Byeong Jo Kim -- Demilitarizing politics in South Korea: toward a positive consolidation of civilian supremacy / Il Joon Chung.

There could be no better homage to recently deceased sociologist Charles C. Moskos than dedicating to him this selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an up-to-date view of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change that renders many preceding theoretical previsions obsolete. Just to cite two aspects of this change, one can point first of all to how the presented studies move beyond the very concept of globalization, after which the conference had been named. It in fact emerged with clarity that the new dimensions of the context in which militaries and military policy must move are those of a constant, diffuse interaction of the 'local' and the 'global', so-called globalization. A second aspect, in the international area, is the shift towards a multipolar global order with the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Latin America, Japan and India all manoeuvring for position, a shift that has significant consequences on military action as well.