Carsten F Roennfeldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 376517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carsten F Roennfeldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carsten F |
| FAMILY NAME | Roennfeldt |
| SIGNATURE | ROENNFELDT C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4595-0646 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wider Officer Competence
Identifying and developing officer competence is important to a nation's security and a crucial attribute of a legitimate military establishment. Critics have claimed that the U.S. officer corps favors a narrow conception of expertise that limits the armed forces' utility as an instrument of policy. Drawing from the dialogue between Huntington and Janowitz, as well as Aristotle's notion of practical wisdom, this article proposes a wider understan…
Conducting counterinsurgency with productive power
Western governments tend to see power as synonymous with coercive force when they use their military forces in irregular armed conflicts abroad. Yet experiences from recent conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq suggest that this understanding of power is unable to deliver the desired political ends. In an effort to better analyse and engage the political dynamics that dominate such conflicts, this article points to productive power. This theoretica…
Productive War
Conventional wisdom on the phenomenon of war is criticised for providing little relevant guidance to deal with the security challenges of our era. One reason is that this attitude uncritically assumes power as synonymous with force. In response, 'productive war' is here proposed as a re-conceptualisation of war based on Michel Foucault's alternative understanding of power. Productive war appreciates the role of violence but subordinates it to non…
Wider Officer Competence
Identifying and developing officer competence is important to a nation's security and a crucial attribute of a legitimate military establishment. Critics have claimed that the U.S. officer corps favors a narrow conception of expertise that limits the armed forces' utility as an instrument of policy. Drawing from the dialogue between Huntington and Janowitz, as well as Aristotle's notion of practical wisdom, this article proposes a wider understan…
Productive War
Conventional wisdom on the phenomenon of war is criticised for providing little relevant guidance to deal with the security challenges of our era. One reason is that this attitude uncritically assumes power as synonymous with force. In response, 'productive war' is here proposed as a re-conceptualisation of war based on Michel Foucault's alternative understanding of power. Productive war appreciates the role of violence but subordinates it to non…
Productive War
Conventional wisdom on the phenomenon of war is criticised for providing little relevant guidance to deal with the security challenges of our era. One reason is that this attitude uncritically assumes power as synonymous with force. In response, 'productive war' is here proposed as a re-conceptualisation of war based on Michel Foucault's alternative understanding of power. Productive war appreciates the role of violence but subordinates it to non…
Conducting counterinsurgency with productive power
Western governments tend to see power as synonymous with coercive force when they use their military forces in irregular armed conflicts abroad. Yet experiences from recent conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq suggest that this understanding of power is unable to deliver the desired political ends. In an effort to better analyse and engage the political dynamics that dominate such conflicts, this article points to productive power. This theoretica…
Wider Officer Competence
Identifying and developing officer competence is important to a nation's security and a crucial attribute of a legitimate military establishment. Critics have claimed that the U.S. officer corps favors a narrow conception of expertise that limits the armed forces' utility as an instrument of policy. Drawing from the dialogue between Huntington and Janowitz, as well as Aristotle's notion of practical wisdom, this article proposes a wider understan…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Military History and Strategy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Competence (human resources) (1 works) · Dimension (graph theory (1 works) · Dynamics (music (1 works) · Engineering (1 works)