Full Description
This book offers a comparative study of military reserves in contemporary democracies.
A combination of budgetary pressures, new missions and emerging military roles during the past three decades has led the armed forces of democracies to rethink the training and use of reserve forces. Moreover, reservists have become central to the armed forces as part of moves towards "total" or "comprehensive" defense. Despite this, a scholarly bias towards studying regulars and conscripts means that reservists and reserve soldiers continue to receive only marginal attention. This volume fills that lacuna through a series of country studies examining how best to understand the peculiarities of reservist service. In contrast to regulars and conscripts, reservists are marked by their dual management of civilian and military careers, different family dynamics, diverse motivations and commitment to the armed forces, the material and non-material incentives they are offered, and their place in the political sphere. This volume suggests two frames to make sense of such differences: first, it looks at reservists as "transmigrants" traveling between the military and civilian worlds; and, second, it analyzes the multiple informal "contracts" and negotiations that bind them to the military. All the chapters adopt these conceptualizations, granting the volume a common focus and integrative frame.
The volume will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, civil-military relations, sociology and International Relations.
Contents
1. Introduction: Negotiating Reservists: Transmigration and Multiple Contracts Between the Military and Civilian Spheres 2. A Conceptual Framework for Examining the Role of Identity in the Experiences of U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers 3. Transmigration, Voluntary Service and Complementary Careers: A Comparison of Canadian Regular and Reserve Force Military Members 4. Measuring Regular and Reserve Force Integration in the Canadian Armed Forces Identity and Motivation 5. Ex-regulars in the British Army Reserve: "Just here for the money?" 6. Motivations of the Argentinian Reservists to Join the Army Transferring Skills 7. Multiple Contracts Concept as Opportunity to Ease Challenges for Estonian Employers' Obligations Concerning Employees' Reserve Service in Military 8. The Possibilities and Limits of Military Reservists' Civilian Skills for Armed Forces Political Dimensions 9. Building Bridges with Society? Reservists and the democratization of Armed Forces in Argentina 10. Militarism and Self-Portrait of Reservists as Second-rate Soldiers in South Korea 11. Afterword
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