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Svartvit bild på Lisa Strömbom. Foto.

Lisa Strömbom

Docent | Universitetslektor

Svartvit bild på Lisa Strömbom. Foto.

A versatile organisation : Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

En mångfacetterad organisation : En kartläggning av militärens kärnroller i en föränderlig säkerhetskontext

Författare

  • Nina Wilén
  • Lisa Strömbom

Summary, in English

What roles are military institutions expected to play in today's rapidly changing security environment? How are they supposed to interact with the society they are tasked to protect? These questions have been posed by classical military sociologists as well as by a newer generation of scholars. Yet so far, a comprehensive mapping of the military's potential roles in contemporary society is missing. In this article we contribute to an update of this debate by providing a categorisation of the different roles and tasks that the military institution plays in current industrialised democratic states. We identify three core roles, each divided into subroles, by drawing on an extensive reading of 70 National White Papers and Security Strategies from 37 OECD member states: (collective) defence, collective security, and aid to the nation. We analyse how these roles and tasks influence recent configurations in civil-military relations. This study thereby contributes with: (1) a useful illustration of the military's shifting roles and tasks in contemporary society; (2) increased understandings of how the different roles impact civil-military relations and related to this; and (3) a practical starting point for further analyses of the military organisation's internal challenges related to its, at times, contradictory roles

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)

Publiceringsår

2022

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

18-37

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Journal of International Security

Volym

7

Issue

Special issue 1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • Military
  • Roles
  • Security
  • Defence
  • Strategy
  • Civil-Military Relations

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2057-5637