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  • Military Heroism in a Post-Heroic Era

    Edited by Uzi Ben-Shalom, René Moelker, Nehemia Stern, Eyal Ben-Ari ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the variety of forms that individual heroism and sacrifice can take in the context of contemporary military conflicts. It addresses three key questions: How has an enduring ideal of heroism been transformed by the nature of modern warfare? Are we now witnessing the emergence of new forms of exemplary military behavior? And, have new ideals of heroism (and by association, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Yin-Yang Military

    Ambidextrous Perspectives on Change in Military Organizations

    Edited by Jacqueline Heeren-Bogers, René Moelker, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Jan Van der Meulen, Joseph Soeters, Robert Beeres ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations. It discusses how military organizations can better adapt to the complex, and at times chaotic, environments they operate in by developing organizational ambidexterity. The authors identify various multiple tasks and functions of military organizations that require multi-dimensional and often ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Politics of Military Families

    State, Work Organizations, and the Rise of the Negotiation Household

    Edited by René Moelker, Manon Andres, Nina Rones ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the politics of military families in relation to the tensions between the state, military organization, and private life.It elaborates on the tensions between the advent of challenging worldwide deployment for the military and the prominence of the home front. The volume aims to understand the dynamics of conflict and change within triad figurations at the macro (society), meso ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Military Families and War in the 21st Century

    Comparative perspectives

    Edited by Rene Moelker, Manon Andres, Gary Bowen, Philippe Manigart ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions.Today’s postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

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  • The Barefoot Lawyer

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  • Demand the Impossible!

    A Radical Manifesto

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  • Drones and the Future of Air Warfare

    The Evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    by Michael P. Kreuzer ...
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  • Foreign Fighters

    Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts

    by David Malet ...
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