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Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement is about the transformation of Germany?s security and defence policy in the time between the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 war against Iraq. The book traces and explains the reaction of Europe?s biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes. Based on an analysis of Germany?s strategic culture it portrays Germany as a security actor and indicates the conditions and limits of the new German willingness to participate in international militar

Resilience is increasingly highlighted as a necessary organizational property in national security bureaucracies. This article explores the resulting management dilemmas via interviews with Danish executives, who attempt to balance resilience, fiscal austerity and democratic accountability. It concludes that the resilience agenda inspires relevant organizational adjustments, including more external networking and internal resource variety. But austerity limits resilience to budget‐neutral forms, and fear of blame games limits the space for innovation to stay abreast with evolving risks. The article calls for a critical reappraisal of how much resilience to expect from public sector organizations and for more research into the boundary conditions of organizational resilience in the public sector.

The Danish engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan has brought the country to the attention of sympathizers of the international salafi-jihadist network inspired by Al-Qaida. Thus, arguably an activist foreign policy must go hand in hand with a robust, flexible, and coordinated homeland security system. This working paper looks at ongoing Danish efforts to enhance civil-military cooperation in homeland security. Drawing on organizational theory and organizational change theory, the paper argues that civil-military cooperation depends on forging the right structures but also on the promotion of a culture of cross-governmental cooperation to reduce friction between civilian and military organizational cultures as well as battles of turf. It suggests that a targeted effort to promote a culture of cross-governmental cooperation through joint strategic level education and common exercising should be an imminent concern in order to make civilian and military agencies comfortable with new structures and requirements for cooperation. ; Danmarks engagement i blandt andet Irak betyder, at Danmark i stigende grad er kommet i søgelyset af tilhængere af den internationale Al-Qaida inspirerede salafi-jihadisme. En aktivistisk udenrigspolitik må derfor følges op af fleksibelt og velkoordineret hjemligt beredskab mod terrorisme. Dette DIIS Working Paper ser nærmere på den danske indsats for at fremme civil/militært samarbejde indenfor terrorberedskabet. Baseret på organisations teori og teori om forandringer i organisationer argumenteres der for, at effektivt civil/militært samarbejde er afhængigt af skabelsen af de rette strukturer, men også af styrkelsen af en organisations kultur hos såvel civile som militære aktører, der lægger vægt på samarbejde på tværs af sektorgrænser. Indlejringen af tvær-institutionel forståelse og koordinering i de respektive organisationskulturer kan søges fremmet via fælles træning og uddannelse på et strategisk niveau og kan medvirke til at gøre såvel civile som militære aktører mere trygge ved nye krav og strukturer rettet mod at sikre tættere samarbejde.