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Democracy is unlikely to develop or to endure unless military and other security forces are controlled by democratic institutions and necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place. The result of a 2-year research project managed under the auspices of the European Group on Armed Forces and Society (ERGOMAS) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), this comparative study examines how contemporary European states, both mature Western democracies and emerging democracies of post-communist Europe, manage the issue of how best to control the very institution that has been established for their protection and wields the monopoly of legitimate force. This volume contains 28 case studies from 14 countries: the Czech Republic, Germany, Georgia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, and the Ukraine. The studies cover a variety of situation from corruption to military incompetence, disobedience towards civilian superiors, lack of expertise among civilians, to unauthorized strikes and accidents. They focus on the relationship between political, civilian and military actors while identifying problems and dangers that can emerge in those relations to the detriment of effective and legitimate democratic control. This book will be of much interest to students of Civil-Military Relations, military sociology, IR and strategic studies.

Civil-military relations --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Politieke Geografie. --- GeografieSociale geografie --- Europe

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Das Buch untersucht, inwieweit das Potenzial der vierten industriellen Revolution für den Maschinen- und Anlagenbau maximal genutzt werden kann, um neue, innovative Geschäftsmodelle zu entwickeln. Im Kapitel der evolutionären Geschäftsmodelle wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Weiterentwicklung des Standes der Technik im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau in evolutionärer Weise kontinuierlich erfolgt. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden Möglichkeiten für disruptive Geschäftsmodelle untersucht. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass sich auf Grund der technologischen Möglichkeiten die Branchenentwicklung des Maschinen- und Anlagenbaus radikal verändern wird und proprietäre Konzepte aufgebrochen werden und sich offene Konzepte, welche disruptive Wirkung entfalten, entwickeln werden. Der Inhalt Theoretische Grundlagen Evolutionäre Geschäftsmodelle: Datenerfassung und -verarbeitung, Cyber-physische Systeme, Vernetzung und Integration durch Cloud Computing Disruptive Geschäftsmodelle: Value as a Service (VaaS), Modules as a Service (MaaS), Planning as a Service, Software/Platform/Infrastructure as a Service Interpretation der Ergebnisse Die Zielgruppen Experten aus den Bereichen Entwicklung, Logistik, Produktion, Service und Strategie Geschäftsführung im Maschinen- und Anlagebau Unternehmensberatung Der Autor Hans-Jürgen Born, Dipl. Ing. (FH), MBA, studierte Elektrotechnik mit der Vertiefung Automatisierungstechnik. Weitere Tätigkeiten bei international tätigen Firmen sowie Forschungseinrichtungen mit automatisierungstechnischen Aufgaben runden sein Profil im Fach ab.

Electrical engineering. --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- E-commerce. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- e-Commerce/e-business.

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Public law. Constitutional law --- grondrechten --- internationale betrekkingen --- staatsrecht --- grondwet --- Indonesia --- Nigeria

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"...explores the roles played by various actors in the domestic governance of nuclear weapons in eight possessor states--the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan..." -- p.2

Polemology --- 872 Massavernietigingswapens --- 873 Wapenbeheersing --- Civil-military relations --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear weapons control --- Arms control --- Nuclear weapons --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Decision making --- Government policy

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This volume seeks to explain why democratization and military reforms stagnate in newly democratizing countries. The contributions blend historical, ideational, cultural and structural explanatory factors to analyze the trajectories of military reform in Indonesia and Nigeria, two major regional powers that share many structural commonalities. In the tradition of the literature on security sector reform (SSR), the book not only scrutinizes executive initiatives toward military reform, but also provides ample coverage of societal actors. Findings show that while military reform is stagnating in both countries, societal forces ought to be taken into account more as major driving forces in explaining military reform. Several chapters study how legislatures, non-governmental organizations and the civilian defence epistemic community contribute to the transformation of military institutions. The last part of the book tackles another aspect rarely studied in the literature on military reform, namely, the role of militias in military reform.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Public law. Constitutional law --- grondrechten --- internationale betrekkingen --- staatsrecht --- grondwet --- Indonesia --- Nigeria