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Conscription and Critique [PDF]

open access: yesCritical Times, 2019
AbstractThis article focuses on the discussion of general conscription in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay “Toward the Critique of Violence.” In the essay, Benjamin presents conscription or compulsory military service alongside his discussions of police violence and capital punishment, and as one manifestation of legal violence in which law-preserving and ...
Ertür, Başak
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Preserving and progressing: Tensions in the gendered politics of military conscription

open access: yesEuropean Journal of International Security
After all-male universal conscription had been deactivated in many European countries in the post-Cold War era, the past decade has seen a surprising reversal of this trend, with several countries reactivating, voting to retain, or even extending ...
Saskia Stachowitsch, Sanna Strand
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Examining support of South African Defence Force conscription by the mainstream Afrikaans sister churches (1968–1991)

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2022
From the 1950s to the 1990s, white men were conscripted to serve in the South African Defence Force (SADF). Although it varied in its application and duration, conscription was an undeniable, and often unavoidable, part of life for white South Africa ...
Will Gordon
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Conscription hurts: The effects of military service on physical health, drinking, and smoking

open access: yesSSM - population health, 2023
Almost all South Korean men serve in the country's armed forces for two years. In this paper, we investigate whether the military service affects the health of draftees.
D. Bethmann, J. Cho
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conscription of Immune Cells by Light‐Activatable Silencing NK‐Derived Exosome (LASNEO) for Synergetic Tumor Eradication

open access: yesAdvancement of science, 2022
Exosomes derived from natural killer (NK) cells (NEO) constitute promising antineoplastic nano‐biologics because of their versatile functions in immune regulation.
Meng-Jie Zhang   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transformation model in specialized conscription services based on scenario approach using the capacities of science, technology and innovation ecosystem [PDF]

open access: yesآینده‌پژوهی دفاعی, 2022
Considering the developments that have occurred in the concept of defense and security in recent decades, there is a need to review the country's defense patterns, especially in the field of public and specialized conscription service.
Heidar Najafi Rastaghi, Mahdi Ahmadian
doaj   +1 more source

Military duty and military construction in Dagestan in 1917–1928: a historical aspect

open access: yesВестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета, 2023
The relevance of the research problem is connected with the growing interest in the historical experience of national military construction, the performance of military duties by the citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as in the issues of ...
Ganih Shikhvalievich Kaymarazov   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Legitimacy of Conscription in Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Political & Military Sociology, 2023
Conscription is a political institution that may socialize individuals to acquire such values as a sense of patriotism and duty toward state. In democratic countries, public support for conscription is vital.
Miina Kaarkoski, Teemu J. Häkkinen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France

open access: yesJournal Economic History, 2023
Napoléon Bonaparte revolutionized the practice of war with his reliance on a mass national army and large-scale conscription. This system faced one major obstacle: draft evasion.
Louis Rouanet, E. Piano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, 2022
: Does military conscription reduce the distance between the ordinary citizen and the state? Decades after its abolition, numerous European policy makers from across the political spectrum advocate the reintroduction of conscription to foster civic ...
Vincenzo Bove   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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