With the end of the Cold War, the euphoria of the Gulf War of the 1990s and the avowal of a New World Order, peace-operations were declared as the recipe for a better world through international intervention in conflict arenas. However, the debacles and failures in Cambodia, Somalia, or the Balkans led to disillusionment and a sense of strategic helplessness among leaders, experts and scholars in the industrial democracies. While these arguments have been the focus of intense criticism and discussion, they nevertheless underscore the fact that since the end of the Cold War the armed forces of the industrial democracies have undergone very significant transformations. This is the first work linking the changes in armed forces to Peace Support Operations (PSOs), those operations with major state-building components that demand broad and coherent cooperation between military forces and civilian entities.
The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations is timely as the recent debates over PSOs continue to take center stage. This work embodies a new set of ideas and concepts that aid in grasping and interpreting the transformations taking place in the world of war and in PSOs. It seeks to understand how social, economic, political, and organizational transformations around the globe are related to the complex links between armed forces and PSOs. Additionally, this work addresses issues that continue to define the character and makeup of modern warfare and the missions of PSOs for coming decades.

The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations (PSI Reports)

History

Ben-Ari, Eyal

Michael, Kobi

Kellen, David

Military

Praeger

Japanese Encounters: The Structure and Dynamics of Cultural Frames (Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series)

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Routledge

Japan in Singapore: Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows

The Japanese impact on Southeast Asia has been profound, not only in terms of economic presence, but equally in terms of an increasingly visible cultural presence. Food, fashion, TV, film, religion, sport, popular music, ideas about management and social relationships and even local literatures have been profoundly impacted by the flows of cultural influences from Japan. This volume examines these flows and their consequences in Singapore, a Southeast Asian society in which the Japanese presence is so visible as to make it a regional paradigm for a study of cultural influence in the region.

Japan in Singapore

Clammer, John

Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool

Examines the place of body practices and the management of emotions in Japanese preschools. Early childhood socialization is explored as a set of 'body projects': a series of practices undertaken (over time) to design the body according to prevailing cultural definitions and images.

This book explores the multiplicity of special times and spaces in Japan within which people get together to decide, celebrate or play, in gatherings such as organizational meetings, community festivities, preschool games or drinking bouts. It analyzes these gatherings in relation to the theoretical model of sociocultural frames, examining how such occasions are put together, their unfolding stages, interactive encounters, and relations between participants and the wider social and cultural contexts. It considers the cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimensions, the scope for manipulation and the effects, intentional and unintentional, on participants and the connections to the ways in which in society and culture change. Overall, besides describing specific rites and ceremonies in Japan, the book provides great insights into the process whereby the interactions, feelings and action of individuals and groups shape popular culture.

Japanese Models Of Conflict Resolution

Eisenstadt, S.N.

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Changing Japanese Suburbia

Rethinking Contemporary Warfare: A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies)

Examines the combat experience of Israel’s ground forces in the Al-Aqsa Intifada in order to offer a set of innovative concepts for understanding irregular warfare.The combat experience of Israel’s ground forces in the second Palestinian uprising, the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–2006), is given full critical attention in this engaging study. Based on extensive interviews and observations, Rethinking Contemporary Warfare explores the ongoing debate about how the armed forces of industrial democracies wage contemporary military operations. Irregular warfare presents challenges, as routine activities can suddenly turn into violent action, forcing military forces to quickly adapt under the changing circumstances of the conflict. Such “new wars” are a messy reality consisting of high and low intensity conflict, the involvement of media and human rights movements, and the martial administration of civilian populations. Exploring the broad social and organizational features of these militaries, this volume sets forth new analytical tools to understand the peculiarities of irregular warfare in the post-Cold War era. These critical concepts include loose coupling between units, organizations that mediate between ground forces and civilian environments, and the militarization of civilian environments in urban warfare

Rethinking Contemporary Warfare: A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Suny Israeli Studies)

Middle East

State University of New York Press

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The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations (PSI Reports)

Japanese Encounters: The Structure and Dynamics of Cultural Frames (Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series)

Japan in Singapore

Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool

Japan in Singapore: Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows

Japanese Encounters: The Structure and Dynamics of Cultural Frames (Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series)

Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool

Japanese Models Of Conflict Resolution

Changing Japanese Suburbia

Rethinking Contemporary Warfare: A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Suny Israeli Studies)