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Defence conversion: dead duck or still a relevant object of study?
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
Abstract The Working Paper charts the evolution of Conversion Studies from the Cold War to the post-Cold War period and discusses some of the reasons for the demise of the discipline in the new millennium. Based on a consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of Conversion Studies in the past, it makes so... mehr
The Working Paper charts the evolution of Conversion Studies from the Cold War to the post-Cold War period and discusses some of the reasons for the demise of the discipline in the new millennium. Based on a consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of Conversion Studies in the past, it makes some suggestions on how conversion could inform a systematic field of academic inquiry in the 21st century. The propositions put forward to this end lean toward a comparatively conservative approach that pays close attention to the historical legacy of conversion as a concept. In sum, Conversion Studies should be a multi-disciplinary, critical and policy-relevant field of research that advocates social change based on analyses of political economies of violence, particularly in the affluent, industrialized and comparatively peaceful societies of the Global North. At the same time, it ought to abandon its past reliance on a simple civil–military dichotomy and, instead, engage with the more complex issues raised by a focus on organized violence. This includes a continual questioning and readjustment of one’s own normative coordinates.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Abrüstung; Rüstungskonversion; Militär; Gesellschaft; Verteidigung; Militarisierung; militärisch-industrieller Komplex; Gewalt; Forschungsgegenstand; Friedensforschung; Konfliktforschung
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Staat; Wissenschaft; Konversion militärischer Güter für zivile Nutzung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Erscheinungsort
Bonn
Seitenangabe
37 S.
Schriftenreihe
BICC Working Paper, 7/2017
ISSN
2521-781X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 3.0