Restoring Military Discipline and Maintaining the Military’s Subordination to the Civil Government

2016 ◽  
pp. 95-144
Keyword(s):  
Military Discipline ◽  
Civil Government

Critical International Theory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Devetak
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Civil Government

Whether inspired by the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the impact of critical theory on the study of international relations has grown considerably since its advent in the early 1980s. This book offers the first intellectual history of critical international theory. Richard Devetak approaches this history by locating its emergence in the rising prestige of theory and the theoretical persona. As theory’s prestige rose in the discipline of international relations it opened the way for normative and metatheoretical reconsiderations of the discipline and the world. The book traces the lines of intellectual inheritance through the Frankfurt School to the Enlightenment, German idealism, and historical materialism, to reveal the construction of a particular kind of intellectual persona: the critical international theorist who has mastered reflexive, dialectical forms of social philosophy. In addition to the extensive treatment of critical theory’s reception and development in international relations, the book recovers a rival form of theory that originates outside the usual inheritance of critical international theory in Renaissance humanism and the civil Enlightenment. This historical mode of theorising was intended to combat metaphysical encroachments on politics and international relations and to prioritise the mundane demands of civil government over the self-reflective demands of dialectical social philosophies. By proposing contextualist intellectual history as a form of critical theory, Critical International Theory: An Intellectual History defends a mode of historical critique that refuses the normative temptations to project present conceptions onto an alien past, and to abstract from the offices of civil government.

Keeping Military Discipline

2013 ◽  
pp. 311-329
Author(s):  
Stefan G. Chrissanthos
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
Modern System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Discipline

This chapter offers a brief history of military discipline in ancient armies, and also investigates how and to what degree societies inflicted discipline on their soldiers, and how, in various ways, soldiers imposed discipline on themselves. Then, it addresses the evolution of military discipline from Greece until eventually something similar to a modern system developed in the early Roman Empire. The death of Alexander had precipitated almost fifty years of continuous warfare that ultimately resulted in the development of the Hellenistic monarchies. The Roman army represented something completely new in ancient Mediterranean warfare. It is observed that the Principate represented a major step in the evolution of ancient military discipline.

Teaching Civil Government.—(I.)

1899 ◽  
Vol 50 (16) ◽  
pp. 271-274
Author(s):  
Eleanor J. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Civil Government

Disciplinary Uniformity in Uniform—A Success of the Human Rights Act 1998?

2008 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Gale
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
Human Rights Act 1998 ◽  
Military Discipline ◽  
First World

Apart from an awareness of shameful treatment to some shell-shocked soldiers on active duty in the First World War, the subjects of military discipline in general and courts-martial in particular are unlikely to permeate the consciousness of the public at large or, indeed, the vast majority of criminal lawyers. This article explores some of the history of both, the current position in relation to courts-martial and the planned reforms under the Armed Forces Act 2006. That the Human Rights Act 1998 exposed some of the anomalities and worst practices of courts-martial is undeniable. It seems equally likely that the 1998 Act was at least a catalyst for the wholesale review and modernisation of military discipline carried out by the 2006 Act.

Airships

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (661) ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Pugsley
Keyword(s):  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Government

The first well-formulated scheme for lighter-than-air transport was put forward by Francesco de Lana-Terzi in a scientific treatise in 1670. He visualised a craft made lighter than air by evacuating the air from within it, and conducted the first accurate experiments to determine the density of air, which he found to be 1/640th that of water. It comes to most of us today as surprisingly relevant to recall why he did not carry his idea into practice: he was a Jesuit priest and wrote, in the words of Robert Hooke's translation, “God would not suffer such an invention to take effect, by reason of the disturbance it would cause to the civil government of men. For who sees not that no city can be secure against attack …“.

Should psychopaths be recognized as incapable of military service?

1930 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-330
Author(s):  
I. Galant
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Military Discipline

Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Bennecke, a psychiatrist for the Saxon army, talks about whether psychopaths should be considered incapable of military service. (Meine psychiatrische Tatigkeit bei der sachsischen Armee. Allgem. Z. f. Psychiatrie, Bd. 92, H. x / 4, 1929). Due to the fact that he exculpated guilty soldiers, heavy psychopaths and mentally underdeveloped, from imprisonment in the fortress, recognizing them for military service unfit, he was accused of contributing to the fall of military discipline.

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