Sicherheitspolitik im Diskurs (II) – ‘DSS-Arbeitspapiere’ in der Enzyklopädie (2023) – Autor Rainer Böhme: Lemma 'DSS-Arbeitspapiere' für die Enzyklopädie Wikipedia (Stand Januar 2023).:Sicherheitspolitik im Diskurs (II) – ‘DSS-Arbeitspapiere’ in der Enzyklopädie (2023) – ● Vorwort des Herausgebers ● Dokumentation: Autor Rainer Böhme: Lemma 'DSS-Arbeitspapiere' für die Enzyklopädie Wikipedia. ● Kurzfassung (Infobox) ● 1 Geschichte zur Publikation ○ 1.1 Vorgeschichte ○ 1.2 Status der Herausgeberin – DSS e. V. ● 2 Schriftenreihe ‘DSS-Arbeitspapiere’ ○ 2.1 Zweck, Herausgabe, Autoren, Redaktion, Vertrieb ○ 2.2 Hauptgegenstand der ‘DSS-Arbeitspapiere’ ○ 2.3 Entstehungsanlass der Autorenbeiträge •• 2.3.1 Publikationen zum ‘Dresdner Friedenssymposium’ •• 2.3.2 Publikationen zum ‘Dresdner Symposium Globale Friedensordnung’ •• 2.3.3 Publikation zum ‘Kolloquium 2005’ Philosophisches Denken •• 2.3.4 Publikationen zum ‘Kolloquium 2009’ Militärakademie „Friedrich Engels“ •• 2.3.5 Publikation zu ‘Jubiläen und Würdigungen im Verein’ ○ 2.4 Themenüberblick – Ausgaben und Autoren ○ 2.5 Bezieher der ‘DSS-Arbeitspapiere’ ● 3 Wissenschaftlicher Nachlass ● 4 Literatur und Quellen

This thesis is an exercise in military history and takes the form of an investigation into a notable late-nineteenth century blunder; the British Army’s failure to relieve Gordon at Khartoum. It seeks to lay bare operational realities which to date have been obfuscated by substantially successful acts of scapegoating and cover-up. Although political procrastination in Whitehall did not abate until August, the thesis contends that a timely operation of war would still have been possible, if only General Lord Wolseley had recognized that the campaign plan he had designed in April might not, some four months later, be fit for purpose. It proceeds to demonstrate that given revised constraints on time, a full-length Nile Expedition was no longer tenable. Alternative courses of action are also tested. Popular myth would have it that the relief expedition arrived at Khartoum only two days too late. The thesis contends that this is a contrivance propagated by Wolseley out of selfishly motivated concern for his place in history. Wolseley explained away the purportedly critical 48-hours by asserting that Colonel Sir Charles Wilson had unnecessarily stalled the campaign for two days. It was inferred that Wilson was professionally inept, lost his nerve and did not press far enough upriver to be certain that Khartoum had fallen. The thesis traces the course of the ‘Wilson Controversy’, analyses ‘Campaign Design’ and ‘Campaign Management’ in order to identify how and why the relief expedition went awry, and culminates in a closely reasoned adjudication on the validity of the allegations levelled against Wilson. The thesis concludes that the true extent of the British failure was in the order of 60 days; that the failure occurred at the operational level of war, not the tactical; and that accordingly culpability should properly be attributed to Wolseley.

Aim: Most veterans have a successful transition to civilian life when they leave the military. However, there are some veterans who struggle to cope and adjust to the demands and challenges of civilian life. The aims of this research portfolio are: firstly to systematically review the published literature regarding the relationship between six emotion regulation strategies (acceptance, avoidance, problem-solving, reappraisal, rumination and suppression) and veteran mental health (PTSD, depression and anxiety); and secondly, to explore psychosocial factors (mental health, stigma, self-stigma, attitude towards and likelihood of help-seeking, experiential avoidance, reappraisal and suppression) that influence veteran adjustment from military to civilian life, and to determine which of these predict a poor transition. Method: A systematic review of the literature was conducted. Strict search criteria were applied and resulted in 23 studies which met the full inclusion criteria for the review. For the empirical study, 154 veterans across Scotland completed a set of questionnaires. Results: The systematic review highlighted significant relationships between the emotion regulation strategies and mental health disorders in the veteran population. The strength and direction of these relationships depended on the emotion regulation strategy and the mental health condition. The empirical study found that mental health, experiential avoidance and cognitive reappraisal predicted veteran adjustment difficulty. Discussion: There are clear links between veterans’ mental health, the way veterans regulate their emotions and the degree to which they adjust to civilian life. This has implications for how veterans are supported when they leave the Armed Forces, in terms of services and health professionals being able to better understand and support their difficulties, to facilitate their re-integration into civilian life.

The European Union has declared that its ESDP has an initial operational capability.  It has put new institutional structures in place to manage the political aspects of security and defence policy and the member states have pledged a range of military capabilities, which the EU may call upon to undertake a range of crisis management operations - the Petersberg tasks.  However, there are a number of significant challenges that need to be overcome for the ESDP to become a fully operational and credible policy.  These challenges are institutional, political, financial and military.  However, the critical aspect, yet to be significantly enhanced, for a fully operational ESDP is actual military capability. Without investing in a number of critical military capabilities, ESDP risks falling short of the expectations set out at Cologne, Helsinki and beyond. The thesis moves beyond simply describing these shortfalls towards making an assessment of the progress made in the four years since ESDP was launched.  This progress is measured at the national level, by examining the defence policies and military capabilities of a range of six EU states to assess their value to ESDP, and at the EU level by detailing the combined progress towards reaching a fully operational ESDP.  Signs of convergence within these defence policies are required if a ‘common; EU policy is to be realised.  There also needs to be development of a strategic concept, a requirement for an effective ESDP that is not yet acknowledged by the states.  The influence of the US is also critical.  While, the US supports improved military capabilities, it does so without acknowledging a parallel increase in decision-making and responsibility for the EU in international security. There needs to be clearer and more effective leadership in ESDP to overcome these challenges, particularly the military ones.  If the EU does not make sacrifices and provide the resources required for ESDP, it will have created a policy without substance and its credibility as an international actor will be severely damaged.

This thesis explores the role of learning communities in the evolution of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It engages the academic debate on institutional learning and the "practice turn" in IR to shed light on the factors leading the EU to learn by policy failure, as well as by ten years of practice in crisis management. Specifically, the work investigates the role of the knowledge and practice-based communities that shaped the consensus towards the comprehensive approach, with a strong emphasis on civilian means. Ideational factors, as opposed to material ones, are critical in understanding why the EU has developed a "soft" provider of security, in spite of the St Malo commitment to develop hard security capabilities. In the absence of a direct threat, EU member states’ preferences towards CSDP were driven by a set of new ideas, which in turn resulted from an emerging international agenda advocating the development of non-military crisis management approaches and tools. Through a critical appraisal of the "practice turn" and its application to the study of EU security and defence, the thesis sheds additional light on the overlap between knowledge and practice, which bears relevance for the research agenda on learning communities and norm diffusion. The empirical analysis makes an evidence-based reconstruction of the rise and evolution of civilian crisis management (CCM) and security sector reform (SSR). The comparison between the two case studies assesses the extent to which, at critical junctures, ideational factors influenced security policies. CCM and SSR, in fact, shared a similar learning process, yet the former had a much deeper impact on the shape and activities of the CSDP than the latter. To account for such variation in outcomes, it is argued that the emergence of "learning by doing" shaped CCM evolution. On the contrary, the introduction of SSR by knowledge-based communities failed to produce a common practice. Therefore, when policy innovation is supported by the re-elaboration of practices, the ideas diffused by learning communities are more persuasive and impactful on policy-making.

Contemporary debates about military technologies have tended to overlook important interjections from feminist security scholars. These interjections have drawn attention to the myriad ways in which gender functions in the development and deployment of technologies in warfare, so that the technology is perceived as either having 'feminizing' or 'masculinizing' effects. However, the accounts offered in support of these arguments include data which does not ‘fit’ with the narrative of either/or masculinization/feminization. This thesis is that 'Haunting' provides an important lens through which the interaction between, and co-constitution of, gender and military technologies can be more adequately explored. Supplementing the 'ghost hunt' with 'queer logic' to draw the concerns of Haunting (the complexity of personhood, in/(hyper)visibility, disturbed temporality and power) in conversation with feminist scholarship, the thesis reveal military technologies as simultaneously destabilizing and (re)inscribing dominant discourses of military masculinity. At its core this thesis argues that Haunting as a theoretical framework and methodology gives us access to, and a means of understanding, data that centres nuance, details and specificity which is fundamental to social research.

Donald A. George. / "July 24, 1959." Based on thesis submitted to M.I.T. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, July 24, 1959. / Bibliography: p. 102. / Army Signal Corps Contract DA36-039-sc-78108. Dept. of the Army Task 3-99-20-001 and Project 3-99-00-000.

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This thesis is an examination of how the nature of the British soldier is constructed/imagined in contemporary British society if a spectrum of meaning is imagined that posits a warrior existing at one extreme and a weapons platform at the other. Located within a philosophical setting and indebted to Charles Taylor’s modern social imaginaries, a number of sub-questions function as the mechanism used to explore the thesis question in the six research chapters which are: 2, Identity and Narrative; 3, Being and Doing; 4, Clausewitz, Trinitarian War and New Wars; 5, Selected Societal Factors (Death, Risk, and Post-heroicand Feminised Society); 6, The Future Nature of Conflict; and 7, Future Technology. This thesis provides a basis by which to evaluate the cultural, practical, philosophical and intellectual pressures affecting how the British soldier is envisaged in the UK social imaginary. It also offers a functional framework to understand those roles British society is prepared to tolerate and validate when deploying and utilising the generic soldier. The main conclusions of the research chapters are contained in the following six propositions: 1. The identity of the warrior requires a narrative of war(fare) validated by the society with whom he/she is in relationship. The identity of the soldier does not necessarily require a narrative of war. 2. The distinction between the warrior and the soldier is best framed in the language of ‘being’ and ‘doing’. For the warrior their ‘being’ is intuited in combat; whereas the soldier requires a narrative that validates the required/expected output. 3. New wars are non-Clausewitzian. Any Western narrative will suffer narrative deflation in the soldier’s daily experience in non-Western operational settings. 4. Post-modern, risk averse, post-heroic societies will struggle to generate a nonapocalyptic narrative capable of tolerating significant casualty numbers. 5. The question of intervention in a non-Western, non-permissive operational setting will examine the depth of liberal values in Western societies. 6. Though pragmatic, the development of robotic weapons stands in contradiction to the authenticity of the warrior and robs the West of the vitality of its liberal values.

Schriftenreihe DSS-Arbeitspapiere Heft 62: Sammelband Frieden und Menschenrechte - Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dr. Ernst Woit zu seinem 70. Geburtstag am 11. August 2002.:- Jochen Klopfer, Vorwort zur Festschrift - Kurzporträt Ernst Woit. - Rolf Lehmann, Weggefährte, Partner, Freund. Erinnerungen und Wünsche. Zu seinem 70. Geburtstag. - Volker Bialas, Thesen zu Gewalt und Gerechtigkeit. - Rudolf Boehm, Der Kriegsgrund. - Anneliese Feurich, Im Einsatz für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit (Grußwort). - Karl Gass, Grußwort. - Horst Großmann, Eurasien – Geopolitischer Angelpunkt. - Ralph Hartmann, Grußwort - Herbert Hörz, Kampf der Kulturen? Bemerkungen zu Samuel P. Huntington 'The Clash of Civilizations'. - Andrzej Kiepas, Verantwortung, Identität und Menschenrechte im Kontext der heutigen Globalisierungsprozesse. - Hermann Klenner, „American Values“ statt International Law? - Wolfgang Scheler, Frieden und Menschenrechte. Auf Suche nach Wegen von der Machtordnung zur Rechtsordnung. - Dieter W. Scheuch, Der Mensch – Produkt seiner Gene? Zu einigen Aspekten der Gentechnik aus der Sicht der Menschenrechte. - Lothar Striebing / Karin Zänker, Wie man von Evian zu einem Festschriftartikel über Technikphilosophie kommt. - Hans-Ulrich Wöhler, Ernst Woits Arbeit als Hochschullehrer an der TU Dresden – Reminiszenzen ein paar Jahre danach. - Publikationen-Liste (Auswahl) Ernst Woit. - Angaben zu den Autorinnen und Autoren.