The Politics of Military Force: Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse

by Frank A Stengel and Frank A. Stengel

The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered by German policymakers to be without alternative. The book argues that an understanding of how certain policies are made possible (in this case, military operations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472132210
• ISBN13: 9780472132218
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"