René Moelker
Biographic Data
| ID | 249723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | René Moelker |
| GIVEN NAMES | René |
| FAMILY NAME | Moelker |
| SIGNATURE | MOELKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Netherlands Defense Academy, Breda, Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2815-5955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seeleute und Gentlemen
Military Families and War in the 21st Century
This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions. Today's postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and even more so after 9/11, separations between mili…
The Genesis of the 'Dutch Approach' to Asymmetric Conflicts
From a theory on occupying regimes and from traditional concepts of counterinsurgency theory, the author traces back the development of the Dutch discourse regarding present day missions. The genesis of the so-called Dutch approach is studied, and the case of Uruzgan is reviewed by scrutinizing political, security, economic, and governance aspects of the use of the military in the aforementioned province of Afghanistan. The case is studied to det…
Glocal Chechnya from Russian sovereignty to pan-Islamic autonomy
In Chechnya a protracted conflict only seemingly quieted down, but it still smolders and as the conflict is suppressed by coercion, it is inevitable that it will flare up at some time in the near future. The root causes of the conflict can be understood by use of globalization theory, which dialectically brings together the clashing forces from above and below. Civil society in Chechnya deteriorated, is politically curtailed, and has no resilienc…
There and Back Again
As a consequence of various causes, numerous children are confronted with parental separation. By following families in the course of military deployments, this study aimed at enhancing knowledge on temporary father-child separation. Data were part of a longitudinal study of military families and were collected among Dutch service members and their partners before, during, and after a deployment to Bosnia or Afghanistan. Results revealed that the…
Jacques van Doorn
Van Doorn and Beyond
In the 1960s, Jacques van Doorn started teaching (military) sociology as a formal, scientific discipline at the Netherlands Military Academy. Since then, the way military sociology was taught at the academy has seen a great number of developments; the philosophy of education at the academy changed into an interdisciplinary and problem-based learning approach. These changes evolved into military sociology becoming a recognized perspective for anal…
Sympathy, the Cement of Interoperability
The authors present the findings of ten years of research concerning binational military cooperation in the First German-Netherlands Corps, founded in 1995. The start of this binational corps was accompanied with some worries because the interaction between Germans and Dutch in the populations at large was not considered to run smoothly. The authors focus on a well-known hypothesis from intercultural theory, claiming that frequency of contact is …
Norbert Elias, maritime supremacy and the naval profession
In 1950 Norbert Elias published the first of three studies on ‘The Genesis of the Naval Profession’ in the British Journal of Sociology. At the time Elias was not the established scholar that he was to become in later days. In the 1950s his work on the ‘Naval Profession’ was not well received by the audience, even though all the major themes of the ‘civilizing process’ were interwoven in the article. The other two studies were never published in …
There and Back Again
As a consequence of various causes, numerous children are confronted with parental separation. By following families in the course of military deployments, this study aimed at enhancing knowledge on temporary father-child separation. Data were part of a longitudinal study of military families and were collected among Dutch service members and their partners before, during, and after a deployment to Bosnia or Afghanistan. Results revealed that the…
The Genesis of the 'Dutch Approach' to Asymmetric Conflicts
From a theory on occupying regimes and from traditional concepts of counterinsurgency theory, the author traces back the development of the Dutch discourse regarding present day missions. The genesis of the so-called Dutch approach is studied, and the case of Uruzgan is reviewed by scrutinizing political, security, economic, and governance aspects of the use of the military in the aforementioned province of Afghanistan. The case is studied to det…
Sympathy, the Cement of Interoperability
The authors present the findings of ten years of research concerning binational military cooperation in the First German-Netherlands Corps, founded in 1995. The start of this binational corps was accompanied with some worries because the interaction between Germans and Dutch in the populations at large was not considered to run smoothly. The authors focus on a well-known hypothesis from intercultural theory, claiming that frequency of contact is …
Norbert Elias, maritime supremacy and the naval profession
In 1950 Norbert Elias published the first of three studies on ‘The Genesis of the Naval Profession’ in the British Journal of Sociology. At the time Elias was not the established scholar that he was to become in later days. In the 1950s his work on the ‘Naval Profession’ was not well received by the audience, even though all the major themes of the ‘civilizing process’ were interwoven in the article. The other two studies were never published in …
Van Doorn and Beyond
In the 1960s, Jacques van Doorn started teaching (military) sociology as a formal, scientific discipline at the Netherlands Military Academy. Since then, the way military sociology was taught at the academy has seen a great number of developments; the philosophy of education at the academy changed into an interdisciplinary and problem-based learning approach. These changes evolved into military sociology becoming a recognized perspective for anal…
Norbert Elias, maritime supremacy and the naval profession
In 1950 Norbert Elias published the first of three studies on ‘The Genesis of the Naval Profession’ in the British Journal of Sociology. At the time Elias was not the established scholar that he was to become in later days. In the 1950s his work on the ‘Naval Profession’ was not well received by the audience, even though all the major themes of the ‘civilizing process’ were interwoven in the article. The other two studies were never published in …
Sympathy, the Cement of Interoperability
The authors present the findings of ten years of research concerning binational military cooperation in the First German-Netherlands Corps, founded in 1995. The start of this binational corps was accompanied with some worries because the interaction between Germans and Dutch in the populations at large was not considered to run smoothly. The authors focus on a well-known hypothesis from intercultural theory, claiming that frequency of contact is …
Van Doorn and Beyond
In the 1960s, Jacques van Doorn started teaching (military) sociology as a formal, scientific discipline at the Netherlands Military Academy. Since then, the way military sociology was taught at the academy has seen a great number of developments; the philosophy of education at the academy changed into an interdisciplinary and problem-based learning approach. These changes evolved into military sociology becoming a recognized perspective for anal…
Jacques van Doorn
There and Back Again
As a consequence of various causes, numerous children are confronted with parental separation. By following families in the course of military deployments, this study aimed at enhancing knowledge on temporary father-child separation. Data were part of a longitudinal study of military families and were collected among Dutch service members and their partners before, during, and after a deployment to Bosnia or Afghanistan. Results revealed that the…
Glocal Chechnya from Russian sovereignty to pan-Islamic autonomy
In Chechnya a protracted conflict only seemingly quieted down, but it still smolders and as the conflict is suppressed by coercion, it is inevitable that it will flare up at some time in the near future. The root causes of the conflict can be understood by use of globalization theory, which dialectically brings together the clashing forces from above and below. Civil society in Chechnya deteriorated, is politically curtailed, and has no resilienc…
The Genesis of the 'Dutch Approach' to Asymmetric Conflicts
From a theory on occupying regimes and from traditional concepts of counterinsurgency theory, the author traces back the development of the Dutch discourse regarding present day missions. The genesis of the so-called Dutch approach is studied, and the case of Uruzgan is reviewed by scrutinizing political, security, economic, and governance aspects of the use of the military in the aforementioned province of Afghanistan. The case is studied to det…
Seeleute und Gentlemen
Military Families and War in the 21st Century
This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions. Today's postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and even more so after 9/11, separations between mili…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Military History and Strategy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)