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This article examines the periods of military sociology in Russia. The Russian State system of periods of the military sociology had an effect on the evolution of sociology as a science and as an educational discipline in Russia. These periods include a pre-revolutionary period, a post-revolutionary period, soviet I, soviet II, and a modern period.

Institutionalising European defence : main trends in European public perceptions in the age of the global war on terror / Yantsislav Yanakiev -- Between alliance and home front considerations : the German armed forces and security-related opinion polls / Sabine Collmer -- Managing diversity in all-volunteer forces : theoretical perspectives, institutional assessment and policy implications / Yantsislav Yanakiev -- Women in conflictual situations in the war-torn Darfur, Sudan : an exposition / Oluyemi O. Fayomi -- Gender integration policies in the armed forces : a double-edged sword? / Helena Carreiras -- Women in the military profession : the Greek case / L. Nicolaou-Smokoviti -- Thirty years of gender integration : cadet perceptions of women at the U.S. Air force academy / David R. McCone, Wilbur J. Scott -- Parents voice : the intergenerational relationship, worry, appraisal of the deployment, and support among parents of deployed personnel / Manon Andres, Ren(c)Øe Moelker -- Military families and deployments abroad in Italy. In search of adequate answers for a new issue / Marina Nuciari, Guido Sertorio -- Pakistani military's role in the Asian context / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- End of conscription and problems of manning : the case of Slovenian Armed Forces / Uro Svete, Ljubica Jeluic -- Military educational institutions and their role in the reproduction of inequality in the Philippines / Leslie V. Advincula-Lopez -- A basis of Mongolian defense policy and armed forces for self-defense / Turtogtoh Janar -- Foreign aid, war/military, and state building of cold war Taiwan : in search of a theoretical and comparative framework / Yu-Wen Fan -- From military professionalism to coup d'etat : concordance theory in India and Pakistan / Rebecca L. Schiff -- Whose job, what job? Security sector performance in a local Communist frontline in central Philippines / Rosalie Arcala Hall -- EU harmonisation reforms, democratisation and a new modality of civil-military relations in Turkey / Nilufer Narli -- The convergence and divergence in perceptions of security issues By military professionals and civilians in South Korea / Doo-Seung Hong, Chon-Hwan Chong -- Civilmilitary relations of modern Korea : from a patriarchal army to a professional army / Mahn-Geum Ohn -- Civilmilitary relations of Korea in the 21st Century / Byeong Jo Kim -- General conscription in Finland after 2008 : some reasons behind Finland's population's and conscripts attitudes towards general conscription / Olli Harinen, Jukka Leskinen -- Demilitarizing politics in South Korea : toward a positive consolidation of civilian supremacy / Il Joon Chung -- Changes in military profession in Latin American countries / Omar Guti(c)Øerrez -- Slovene public opinion about security issues : a coincidence or a consistent pattern? / Marjan Maleic, Vinko Vegic -- Introduction / Giuseppe Caforio

This article illustrates the role of sociology at the Swedish military academies. Finding a suitable balance between theoretical and practical education seems to have been a major thread in Swedish officer education from the eighteenth century to the present day. The emphasis has been on education that is closely linked to military war positions, with extensive elements of combat planning and carrying out military operations. But as tasks have changed, areas such as leadership and organizations have become more important, and the positions of sociological theories and perspective have gradually increased. The belief put forward here is that the demand for sociology will increase for two reasons: the current struggle to make Swedish officer education more university-like and, more important, the need for sociological knowledge that will grow the more the Defense Forces will be engaged in the international arena.

Charles C. Moskos (1934-2008) / Laura Miller -- The glocalization of bereavement : bereaved families, economic discourse and the hierarchy of Israeli casualties / Udi Lebel -- Cultural and political challenges in military missions : how officers view multiculturality in armed forces / Tibor Szvircsev Tresch -- Latin America in peacekeeping operations : a sociopolitical overview / Marina Malamud Feinsilber -- Polish military forces in peacekeeping missions and military operations other than war : experiences after 2000 / Marcin Sinczuch, Marian Kloczkowski, Mariusz Wachowicz -- South Korean experiences in peacekeeping and plan for the future / Kyudok Hong -- Hungarian experiences from peacekeeping in Afghanistan / Zoltan Laszlo Kiss -- Greece's contribution to the Korean War (1950-1955) / Dimitrios Smokovitis -- ESDP and Russia : a decade of unfulfilled promise / Sandra Fernandes -- Asymmetric warfare : an introduction / Giuseppe Caforio -- Expeditionary military networks and asymmetric warfare / Paul C. van Fenema -- Payday in the Afghan National Army : from western administrative liabilities to local realities / Christiaan Davids, Joseph Soeters -- New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare / Wilbur J. Scott, George R. Mastroianni, David R. McCone -- Interaction rituals and language mediation during peace missions : experiences from Afghanistan / Iris Hoedemaekers, Joseph Soeters -- New ways of military thinking and acting for a better world : new models preparing forces to master unavoidable transitions / Hermann Jung -- The asymmetric answers (with the focus on Russia's rhetoric and actions) / Vladimir Rukavishnikov -- The symmetries of asymmetry : myths surrounding the notion of asymmetric war / Antulio J. Echevarria -- Many views on peace / Bandana Purkayastha -- Soldiers and scholars in a world of growing interdependence / John Allen Williams -- Conflict, peacemaking and the dynamics of humiliation / Dennis Smith -- Lloyd J. Dumas / The military role in the amnesty, reconciliation, and reintegration (AR2) process : an expanded framework analysis -- Michael W. Mosser / Introduction -- Giuseppe Caforio

This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in their personnel and roles, has experienced a certain degree of "Canadianization" at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.