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The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces (Comparative Social Research) by Lars Mjoset, Stephen Van Holde is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This volume contributes to the comparative study of military conscription. Issues discussed include: a conceptual clarification of conscription as distinguished from volunteerism and militia service; the emergence of the citizen soldier model; patterns of anti-militarism before World War I; conscription in third world armies; gender-issues in relation to military service; the present phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa; the decline of conscript armies in Western Europe. A review section discusses the contribution of rational choice theory to the analysis of conscription into military forces.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lars Mjoset, Stephen Van Holde
- Publisher
- Jai Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780762308361
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Military, Engineering, Technology
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