scholarly journals Sweden and Our Military Profession: Building a Common Identity or Creating Friction?

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-48
Author(s):  
Joakim Berndtsson
Keyword(s):  
Common Identity ◽  
Military Profession

Evolution and Nature of the Concept of Motivation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-175
Author(s):  
Grigor Grigorov
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Military Profession ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Military

AbstractThis report examines the evolution and nature of the concept of motivation. It performs a theoretical analysis of the definitions of motivation and attempts to give a scientific definition of the phenomenon of motivation for practising the military profession. The results of the analysis will enable commanders to understand more clearly military motivation in order to effectively manage their subordinates.

Human Rights in Traditionalist Islam

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-105
Author(s):  
Robert Dickson Crane
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
World War ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Identity

The vaunted clash of civilizations has grown into a Fourth World War of demonization against Islam. The newest strategy is to single out Islam’s essential values, deny that they exist, and assert that their absence constitutes the Islamic threat. This article shows the common identity of classical American and classical Islamic thought so that Muslims, Christians, and Jews can unite against religious extremism. Muslim jurisprudents developed the world’s most sophisticated code of human responsibilities and rights. This is now being revived as the common heritage of western civilization based on the premise that justice reflects a truth higher than man-made positivist law and on the corollary that the task of religion is to translate transcendent truth into the transcendent law of compassionate justice.

The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Scott
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
The Political ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Political Principle ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Identity

Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism. The heroic age of the Confederation in the fifteenth century is now seen as a turning point as the Swiss polity achieved a measure of institutional consolidation and stability, and began to mark out clear frontiers. This book questions both assumptions. It argues that the administration of the common lordships by the cantons collectively gave rise to as much discord as cooperation, and remained a pragmatic device not a political principle. It argues that the Swiss War of 1499 was an avoidable catastrophe, from which developed a modus vivendi between the Swiss and the Empire as the Rhine became a buffer zone, not a boundary. It then investigates the background to Bern’s conquest of the Vaud in 1536, under the guise of relieving Geneva from beleaguerment, to suggest that Bern’s actions were driven not by predeterminate territorial expansion but by the need to halt French designs upon Geneva and Savoy. The geopolitical balance of the Confederation was fundamentally altered by Bern’s acquisition of the Vaud and adjacent lands. Nevertheless, the political fabric of the Confederation, which had been tested to the brink during the Reformation, proved itself flexible enough to absorb such a major reorientation, not least because what held the Confederation together was not so much institutions as a sense of common identity and mutual obligation forged during the Burgundian Wars of the 1470s.

Facets of the Irish Diaspora: ‘Irishness’ in 20th Century Scotland

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Football Club ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Identity

This paper argues that Celtic Football Club has played a central organising role in establishing a common identity for Catholics of Irish descent in Scotland. Concentrating on evidence taken from discourse in the public media, it draws attention to reactions to this identity by other population groups. Such responses, which are frequently ferocious in the degree of rejection they express, highlight the effects of Celtic's role. It provides a public arena within which Irishness can be expressed; at the same time, it draws fire from hostile elements in the social setting. Tensions within the Irish community about their common identity may in part be responses to these reactions.

Professional ideologies and organisational structure: tanks and the military

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Kemeny
Keyword(s):  
Central Feature ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Strategic Bombing ◽  
Military Profession ◽  
The Military

Doctrinal differences within the military profession have long been a central feature of the development of tactics and strategy, and in earlier periods of history there have been controversies over the appropriate employment of certain arms and units, such as the relative merits of infantry in line or column and the use of cavalry for firepower or shock, as, for example, discussed by Oman (1929) and Quimbey (1957). More recently there has been the question as to the effectiveness of so-called ‘Strategic Bombing’, and the tendency of U.S. doctrine to undervalue the morale factor of guerrillas in their military calculations (Wilson 1970: 142–146).

scholarly journals Beyond Ideology:China-Indonesia Engagement and the Making of the Guided Democracy, 1955-1959

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Kankan Xie
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Boundaries ◽  
Nation States ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
Common Identity ◽  
Historical Issues

Chinas engagement with Indonesia from 1955 to 1959 was neither ideologically oriented nor realpolitik, but somewhere in between. It happened not only because of the changing domestic political situations or completely subject to the shifting international environment, but was also closely associated with intrinsic social and historical issues that transcended geographical, ideological and ethnic boundaries within and across the two nation-states. To some extent, this e?ective engagement was not a result of Indonesias leaning towards the left, but a reason for itnot in the sense of direct political intervention, but through the pursuit of common identity and interest, which signifcantly shaped the making of Indonesias Guided Democracy.

scholarly journals AACSB Accredited Business Programs: Differences And Similarities

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Corcoran
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Identity

Under AACSB mission driven standards, three tiers of business programs have emerged: doctoral level, masters level and baccalaureate level. AACSB institutions in these three tiers are significantly different in many respects. Given that institutional differences are so large and widespread among the three tiers, what, then, are the characteristics, if any, which give AACSB-accredited programs a common identity? Evidence is presented that faculty perceptions are quite similar, regardless of program tier. Thus, the common bind of these diverse programs is measured less in terms of resources and more in terms of a shared ethic of mission-driven excellence.

Common identity as a step to civilization longevity

Futures ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjoy M. Som
Keyword(s):  
Common Identity
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