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Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, les organisations militaires ont connu de profondes transformations. Professionnelles et engagées dans des conflits asymétriques, elles se sont « adaptées » aux bouleversements d'un environnement stratégique qui n'est plus régulé par l’équilibre entre superpuissances. Pourtant, le secteur militaire, pour aussi discipliné et régalien qu’il est perçu, ne se réforme pas d’une façon plus autoritaire que n’importe quel autre. Face au déterminisme consistant à déduire cette métamorphose de la seule évolution du contexte international, cet ouvrage se propose de réincarner l’analyse du changement institutionnel en milieux militaires. Q...
This study examines the changing motives and patterns of conscientious objection as well as state policies toward objectors in the Western world.
Ulrich Krotz's 'Flying Tiger' takes a relatively obscure episode - the joint Franco-German production of a very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger helicopter - to make a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.
Information technology (IT) has had, and will continue to have, a deep impact on the defence sector. The most advanced countries, not only the U.S. but also France, Great Britain and Italy, over the past few years have undergone a transormation of their armed forces aimed at exploiting the strategic advantages of IT. The goal pursued in Europe, and also promoted by NATO, is Network Enabled Capability (NEC). That is combining equipment and soldiers, as well as different doctrinal, procedural, technical and organizational elements, into a single network to obtain their interaction in order to achieve substantial strategic superiority. In practice, this also occurs with a strong, efficient and ...