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| Tango01 | 30 Sep 2015 11:09 p.m. PST |
…the Practice ofWar. "Mercenaries went out of style in the nineteenth century. States altered the conduct of war by raising citizen armies and eschewing the use of mercenaries in practice or in law. It became common sense that armies should be staffed with citizens. Both realists and sociologists have interpreted this change as a functional response to an international demand, either strategic or normative.2 Realists assume states act strategically to insure their security in the system, so states choose strategies that win wars.
Sociological institutionalists assume that predominant ideas shaping state identity, not just war winning, account for changes in patterns of state behavior, so states act
in a way that re ects prevailing notions of state identity. Though both realism and sociological institutionalis mprovide a rationale for the spread of citizen armies, the historical record reveals an alternative path that also promised to respond to…" PDF free to read here
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GamesPoet  | 01 Oct 2015 12:15 p.m. PST |
Noticed the page numbers were 41 to 72, and that got me wondering where this came from? |
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