A versatile organisation: Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

IF 2.5 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2021-11-29 DOI:10.1017/eis.2021.27
Nina Wilén, Lisa Strömbom
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Abstract What roles are military institutions expected to play in today's rapidly changing security environment? How are they supposed to interact with the society they are tasked to protect? These questions have been posed by classical military sociologists as well as by a newer generation of scholars. Yet so far, a comprehensive mapping of the military's potential roles in contemporary society is missing. In this article we contribute to an update of this debate by providing a categorisation of the different roles and tasks that the military institution plays in current industrialised democratic states. We identify three core roles, each divided into subroles, by drawing on an extensive reading of 70 National White Papers and Security Strategies from 37 OECD member states: (collective) defence, collective security, and aid to the nation. We analyse how these roles and tasks influence recent configurations in civil-military relations. This study thereby contributes with: (1) a useful illustration of the military's shifting roles and tasks in contemporary society; (2) increased understandings of how the different roles impact civil-military relations and related to this; and (3) a practical starting point for further analyses of the military organisation's internal challenges related to its, at times, contradictory roles.
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一个多才多艺的组织:在不断变化的安全环境中描绘军队的核心角色
在当今瞬息万变的安全环境中,军事机构应该扮演什么角色?他们应该如何与他们肩负保护的社会互动?古典军事社会学家和新一代学者都提出了这些问题。然而到目前为止,军方在当代社会的潜在角色还没有一个全面的地图。在本文中,我们通过对军事机构在当前工业化民主国家中所扮演的不同角色和任务进行分类,为这场辩论提供了新的内容。通过广泛阅读来自37个经合组织成员国的70份国家白皮书和安全战略,我们确定了三个核心角色,每个角色又分为次要角色:(集体)防御、集体安全和对国家的援助。我们分析这些角色和任务如何影响军民关系的最新配置。因此,本研究有助于:(1)对军队在当代社会中角色和任务的转变提供了有用的说明;(2)加深了对不同角色如何影响军民关系及其相关问题的理解;(3)为进一步分析军事组织的内部挑战提供了一个实际的起点,这些挑战有时与军事组织的矛盾角色有关。
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