The Armed Forces: Towards a Post-Interventionist Era?

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The present anthology stems from the perception of a widespread and manifest uneasiness concerning the business of military intervention in our times. Indeed, the West is for quite some time engaged in a deep introspection about his military intervention policies in the years to come and reflects about this. What will Western military intervention policies look like in the future; what kind of military intervention policies is wanted and what kind of military intervention policies is financially, politically and socio-culturally possible and militarily feasible? The hypothesis pursued in this volume states that, in the foreseeable future, we may see a different kind of military intervention policy and intervention posture of the West that will lead to different military interventions. It may be argued that we are witnessing the dawn of a new era, the era of military post-interventionism. Front Matter....Pages 1-10 “The End of the World as We Know it”!? On Interventionist Overstretch, Post-Interventionism and Neo-Interventionism: An Essayist Introduction....Pages 11-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Post-Interventionist Zeitgeist : The Ambiguity of Security Policy....Pages 17-28 Soldiers Drawn into Politics? Civil-Military Relations, Hybrid Military Spaces and the Future of Interventions....Pages 29-40 Searching for Minimalist Humanitarian Intervention Strategies in Global Security Policy....Pages 41-61 The West’s Last War? Neo-Interventionism, Strategic Surprise, and the Waning Appetite for Playing the Away Game....Pages 63-71 Post-Interventionist or Newly Responsible? Europe as a Security Provider....Pages 73-79 The Democratic Civil-Military Relations of Austerity: Thoughts about the Past and the Present....Pages 81-91 Factual Knowledge and Public Support for German Military Operations: The Case of the German ISAF Mission in Afghanistan....Pages 93-109 The Future of Liberal Interventionism in UK Foreign Policy....Pages 111-129 A Note on Military Intervention in an Era of Globalization....Pages 131-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Military Strategic Trends since 9/11....Pages 137-141 A British Perspective on Future Contingency Operations....Pages 143-147 The Price of Disengagement: Past Trends and Prospects for Portuguese Participation in International Military Missions....Pages 149-163 Expeditionary Capabilities and the Use of Force in a Post-Interventionist Era: The Case of Sweden....Pages 165-172 Democratic Soldiers as Marginal Men: The Impact of Security-Cultural Transformations on the Military in Europe....Pages 173-189 The Quest for ‘Evidence-Based Soldiering’....Pages 191-201 A Premium on Organizational and Technological Efficiency: Making the Comprehensive Approach Work....Pages 203-219 Unmanned Warfare: Towards a Neo-Interventionist Era?....Pages 221-235 The Legacy of Military Heterogeneity in a Post- Interventionist Era: Diversity as a Challenge to the Military Ideal of Homogeneity....Pages 237-255 Expectations: An Underestimated Factor in International Crisis Management....Pages 257-261 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Militaries and the Multiple Negotiations of Intervention....Pages 265-277 Generation ISAF – Operational Realities, Self-Image and Organization....Pages 279-301 Auf verlorenem Posten....Pages 303-310 How Military Interventions Increase the Gap between Soldiers und Politics....Pages 311-324 Back Matter....Pages 325-326