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In this article the authors examine two set of issues that constrain contemporary peace support operations (PSOs): one centered on the kinds of knowledge prevalent in PSOs and the second involving the organizational structures that characterize them. The authors' aim is to show the deep discursive and structural limitations and contradictions that continue to characterize the actions of armed forces and the dominance of militaristic thinking within PSOs. This article centers on multidimensional peacekeeping marked by emphasizing two main points in regard to the complex nature of such peacekeeping. First, Western military thinking is still dominant in the professional discourse of peacekeeping despite the fact that in many cases it is less relevant to the arenas where it is applied (in weakened or failed states). Second, forces in second-generation peacekeeping missions are by definition a form of hybrid organizations, and therefore conceptual changes in regard to PSOs not only involve the realm of knowledge but also entail practical consequences for the very organizational means used to achieve their aims. The authors' analysis demonstrates the blending, hybridization, and linkages that are an essential part of PSOs as processes that carry both advantages and disadvantages for organizational action. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society/Sage Publications Inc.]

In this article the authors examine two set of issues that constrain contemporary peace support operations (PSOs): one centered on the kinds of knowledge prevalent in PSOs and the second involving the organizational structures that characterize them. The authors' aim is to show the deep discursive and structural limitations and contradictions that continue to characterize the actions of armed forces and the dominance of militaristic thinking within PSOs. This article centers on multidimensional peacekeeping marked by emphasizing two main points in regard to the complex nature of such peacekeeping. First, Western military thinking is still dominant in the professional discourse of peacekeeping despite the fact that in many cases it is less relevant to the arenas where it is applied (in weakened or failed states). Second, forces in second-generation peacekeeping missions are by definition a form of hybrid organizations, and therefore conceptual changes in regard to PSOs not only involve the realm of knowledge but also entail practical consequences for the very organizational means used to achieve their aims. The authors' analysis demonstrates the blending, hybridization, and linkages that are an essential part of PSOs as processes that carry both advantages and disadvantages for organizational action.

Analyse der internen Diskussionen und Auseinandersetzungen unter den ultra-orthodoxen Juden (Haredim) in Israel über die Haltung zum Militärdienst. Während die "offizielle" Haltung der Haredim gegenüber dem Militärdienst strikt ablehnend ist, gibt es unter den jüngeren Haredim eine differenzierte Sicht, die die Möglichkeit des Militärdienstes und der Partizipation im Staat zumindest in Betracht zieht. Die Studie stützt sich auf verschiedene Quellen: Unterrichtsmaterialien für Studenten an den Talmud- und Thora-Schulen (Jeschiwot); auf Tonkassetten verbreitete Predigten und Ansprachen von Rabbinern; Artikel und Polemiken in Zeitungen der Haredim; Interviews, die die Autoren zwischen 1996 und 1999 mit Jeschiwot-Studenten (von der Wehrpflicht befreit), Rabbinern und Journalisten geführt haben; externe Zeitungen und einige andere Werke. (DÜI-Hns)