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Motivated, able, and well-trained military personnel are essential to the success of any military, and personnel policies are crucial to getting and keeping qualified servicemen and women. The transformation of personnel policies is an important element of the broader transformation occurring in Western militaries. Across Europe and North America, nations are embracing plans to change military personnel policies to build future capabilities consistent with new strategic environments and with the demographic and societal realities of the future. For many nations, a key reform is to shift from a conscript military to a smaller, all-volunteer force. Other important reforms include expanding recruitment capacity, improving working conditions, revamping career paths, overhauling compensation systems and increasing military pay, modernizing pension plans, improving the quality of life for military members and their families, and improving the post-service prospects for those who serve. Service to Country explores the ongoing transformation of military personnel policies in Europe and North America, looking at causes as well as potential costs and benefits of personnel policy transformation. Contributors to the volume, from both Europe and North America, include experts from militaries, governments, universities, and think tanks; practitioners and scholars; economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a demographer. ContributorsJennifer Buck, Deborah Clay-Mendez, Sylvain Daffix, Chris Donnelly, Curtis Gilroy, Keith Hartley, Hannu Herranen, Bertel Heurlin, Jolyon Howorth, Gerhard Kummel, Juan Lopez Diaz, Karen McKenney, Mihaela Matei, Vincent Medina, Sebastian Negrusa, Cyr-Denis Nidier, Bernard Rostker, Robert St. Onge, Rickard Sandell, Peter Svec, Vaidotas Urbelis, Domenico Villani, John Warner, Cindy Williams, John D. Winkler

Military administration. --- Armed Forces --- Personnel management. --- Armed Services --- Military, The --- Administration, Military --- Military art and science --- Disarmament --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

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Die Autoren legen mit diesem Lehrbuch eine aktuelle politikwissenschaftliche Bestandsaufnahme der Kommunalpolitik und Kommunalverwaltung vor. Neben einer Vermittlung der Grundzüge des kommunalpolitischen Systems und der Genese der kommunalen Selbstverwaltung stehen die seit den 1990er Jahren einsetzenden Ökonomisierungs- und Partizipationstrends im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtungen. Welche Auswirkungen haben die tief greifende Haushaltskrise, Privatisierungsprozesse und das neue Steuerungsmodell auf das kommunalpolitische System? Wie verändern sich die kommunalpolitischen Entscheidungsstrukturen durch die Einführung der Direktwahl des Bürgermeisters, der Bürgerbegehren und von "runden Tischen"? Das Buch bietet insgesamt eine grundlegende Einführung in die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen, die Akteurs- und Machtkonstellationen und die Politikinhalte der Kommunalpolitik. Dieser policyorientierte Zugang führt zu einer praxisnahen, empirisch fundierten und kritischen Analyse aktueller kommunaler Entwicklungen.

Social Sciences, general. --- Political Science. --- Political science. --- Science politique --- #SBIB:35H1353 --- #SBIB:35H6013 --- Organisatie en beleid: lokale besturen: Duitsland --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Duitsland --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Science - General --- Political Science and International Relations.

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"How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones." "Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace." "The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks - light coursing through glass tubes - as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment."--Jacket.

Fiber optics. --- Kommunikationstechnik. --- Kontrolle. --- Lichtleitfaser. --- Optical communications. --- Optique des fibres. --- Technologie et civilisation. --- Technology and civilization. --- Télécommunications optiques. --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General --- Fiber optics --- Optical communications --- Technology and civilization --- Internet --- Optical fiber communication --- Racism in mass media --- Social control

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This book argues that economic success and failure in the developing world is not determined solely by a nation's economic policy but also by how they were influenced by colonalism, military agression, international markets, and foreign aid.

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