Military Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Military Health Care

   From Pre-Deployment to Post-Separation

   Edited by Jomana Amara, Ann M. Hendricks

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This edited volume surveys critical aspects of modern military health care in the US and various other Western countries with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the United States, the military medical system, including care for veterans, is large and diverse and involves two institutions, the US...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Educating America's Military

   By Joan Johnson-Freese

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider's perspective. The mission of America’s war colleges is to educate senior military officers in both the ways of war and the defence of peace. But are these colleges...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. War and the Body

   Militarisation, Practice and Experience

   Edited by Kevin McSorley

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This edited volume places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences. War is fundamentally embodied. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means but politics incarnate, politics written on and experienced through the thinking, feeling bodies of men and...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations

   Edited by Thomas Bruneau, Florina Cristiana Matei

   This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil–military relations. The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police in...

   Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Qualitative Methods in Military Studies

   Research Experiences and Challenges

   Edited by Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. Global South to the Rescue

   Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

   Edited by Paul Amar

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military...

   Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Ethics, Norms and the Narratives of War

   Creating and Encountering the Enemy Other

   By Pamela Creed

   Series: War, Conflict and Ethics

   This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change. The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Democratic Citizenship and War

   Edited by Yoav Peled, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Guy Mundlak, Jean Cohen

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states. Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual’s relations with society. The specific nature of these rights, duties and...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Democratic Civil-Military Relations

   Soldiering in 21st Century Europe

   Edited by Sabine Mannitz

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering. In...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. The US Military

    A Basic Introduction

    By Judith Hicks Stiehm

    Series: Cass Military Studies

    This book provides a basic guide to the US military and will raise questions for further discussion by students and other curious readers. The US Military provides an accessible starting-point for those with a limited knowledge of this institution. Covering a wide range of subject matter, and...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge