Joseph Soeters
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 249742 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph Soeters |
| PRENOMES | Joseph |
| SOBRENOME | Soeters |
| ASSINATURA | SOETERS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Netherlands Defence Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2468-2208 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Peace building and public administration
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later
This article provides an account of the founding, growth, and success of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS), a long-established professional organization for those studying the military and war. How IUS has thrived invites explanation. Two theoretical themes guide our effort: first, the life cycles of organizations literature, and two, a complementary focus on the professional-career life cycles of IUS's participants. To…
Multinational Military Cooperation in the Global South
In the 21st century, three international military organizations with standing headquarters in the Global South have emerged in the field of military operations. These are the Southern Cross Peace Force in Latin America, the Africa Standby Force, integrating five subregional African forces, and the Peninsula Shield Force in the command structures of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. This article examines interorganizational differences and s…
The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams
Jane Addams stands as perhaps one of the most prominent female voices in social theory of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While built through books, essays, journal articles, and speeches, her intellectual legacy has seldom been recognized as academic by contemporary audiences. Yet, over the last 40 years, her contributions to sociology, philosophy, conceptions of democracy, inquiry, feminism, care ethics, community engagement, social eth…
Sociology and Military Studies
В статье демонстрируется возможность использовать наработки классической социологии для изучения различных аспектов современной военной социологии, особенно вопросов субстанциальной рациональности. В качестве примера приводится Георг Зиммель, взгляды которого на положение человека в социальных группах, динамику конфликта, доверие и положение «чужого» могут оказаться полезными в социологических исследованиях функционирования и действий вооруженных…
Why It Is Important to Be Cautious in the Analysis of Military Organizations
This article is a reply to a recent publication by Hasselbladh and Yden in this journal, entitled “Why Military Organizations Are Cautious About Learning?” They argue that there is good reason for military organizations not being very successful in organizational learning. Based on historical experiences related to the military’s bureaucratic character and specific task environment, they argue that military organization’s hesitation to learn is n…
Information sharing in multinational security and military operations. Why and why not? With whom and with whom not
Military operations increasingly require cooperation between agencies within the same nation, but also collaboration with security and military organizations internationally. Throughout history multinational military cooperation has often been an appropriate way to conduct major operations; national manpower and material resources are generally insufficient to address the demands of missions worldwide. The desire to optimize the use of scarce res…
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a social and political theorist whose work has probably been more important outside than inside academia. His work has created the foundations of political ideologies that have been most influential in twentieth-century world history. He formulated ideas about class struggle and revolution that constituted the foundation on which the former Soviet Union, the People&s;s Republic of China and their satellite states were based. Marx&s;…
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel was a German sociologist whose contributions to sociological thinking were no less influential than these provided by the famous founding fathers. Simmel&s;s theorizing on the position of individuals in larger entities (groups, networks) has invaluable significance for military organizations and their performance. Simmel&s;s work on number distributions, network dynamics, conflicts and group affiliations have laid the foundation for …
Cornelis Lammers
The Dutch sociologist Cornelis Lammers has become famous as one of the founding fathers of the sociology of organizations in the Netherlands and Europe. His doctoral thesis was about the military, in particular about the recruitment and socialization of officer cadets in the Dutch Navy. Compared to Western militaries – particularly after conscription was abolished – armed forces in developing countries seem to suffer more often from mutinies and …
Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim&s;s contribution to the development of French sociology and sociology in general is undisputable. He and his collaborators contributed substantially to the understanding of the relations between the individual and society and of social facts in general. Emile Durkheim stressed that social facts need to be distinguished from psychological phenomena and individual-level explanations, no matter how self-evident these may be at first g…
Norbert Elias
This chapter discusses three elements of Norbert Elias&s; work, some of which continue to raise many eyebrows, particularly the first element. Some people even get angry about it because it clashes with common sense; it seems to contradict what everyone can read in the newspapers. The military was very much part of these developments. First, as the centralization of nation-states progressed, fighting and warring as an everyday experience, the way…
Morris Janowitz
Morris Janowitz has also influenced the international development of military sociology, as he supervised the doctorate work of scholars from all over the world and created networks of social and political scientists in the field. His name can moreover be connected with other scholars who began their careers with the end of World War II: Samuel Huntington and Samuel Stouffer, to name but two. All this work on the sociology of the military started…
Bruno Latour
Technology plays an important role in social and organizational life, and this role is becoming more and more significant. Bruno Latour, born in 1947, is a French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher, who has studied processes leading to the development, application and impact of science and technology in societies. Bruno Latour started his scholarly career with an analysis of work processes in a laboratory for neuroendocrinology in Califo…
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois has been proclaimed to be &s;the first sociologist of race&s;, and even though race relations in earlier times were much worse than they seem to be today, it may be safe to say that race continues to be a problem in societies all over the world. There are many examples to underline this contention. Challenging race and group relationships is obviously not limited to the United States and its armed forces. For centuries, European …
Jane Addams
Jane Addams may have been less a scholar than a social activist. However, she published a large number of essays, speeches and books on pragmatism and social policies that have been neglected for too long but have ample relevance today. Jane Addams was not the first to point to the importance of &s;mundane&s; matters such as household and community development and the improvement of living conditions in urban neighbourhoods. About half a century …
Arlie Russell Hochschild
While studying emotions and feeling rules in organizations, Arlie Russell Hochschild followed the path trodden by Erving Goffman before her. There is also a clear connection with the work of Norbert Elias, who stressed society&s;s influence on the way people learn to restrain and discipline themselves and essentially control their emotions. Arlie Russell Hochschild&s;s work on emotions in organizations became well known through her study of fligh…
Max Weber
Max Weber from Germany is one of the most famous names among sociology&s;s founding scholars, and his contributions to the discipline have been enormous. One has to recall his work on the sociology of religion, culminating in his theory on the impact of the protestant ethic on the development of Western capitalism. For organization studies, and for military studies in particular, Weber&s;s work on bureaucracy theory has been tremendously influent…
Erving Goffman
The Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman is not very well known for his contributions to the study of the military. Erving Goffman uses a dramaturgical perspective, focusing on the concrete interactions between people who are &s;on stage&s;, which means they perform in an organizational context. Belgian military sociologist Joris van Bladel analysed the process of new recruits becoming part of the informal culture in a Russian barracks. In this an…
Michel Foucault
French social philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault has published a remarkable collection of writings, some of which have less or almost nothing to do with the military, but some have – among them a series of lectures at the College de France on the need to defend society. Michel Foucault provides perspectives that are new and original, with, however, a pessimistic undertone that not all appreciate or agree with. The British accounting scho…
From the classics to the future in military studies
This chapter provides an overview of how sociological theories, insights and findings in one way or another have implications for the military today. There are similarities and differences in topics, overlapping and contradicting perspectives, as well as comparable and distinct emphases. Military sociology mostly studies civil–military relations, political–military relations including the mass media, as well as military management and human resou…
Cynthia Enloe
Stressing the position and role of women in and around the military, Cynthia Enloe, born in 1938, followed in Jane Addams&s; footsteps. Like Jane Addams and others she linked the feminist perspective to the search for peace. Developing a feminist view on military affairs, however, was not Cynthia Enloe&s;s first scholarly activity. Feminization refers to ideas that any particular thing is &s;naturally&s; or &s;especially&s; aligned with women, gi…
Sociology and Military Studies
This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world, and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas, theories and insights from sociology's founding authors, with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Karl M…
The Military Role in Filling the Security Gap After Armed Conflict
During stabilization operations, the host nation and the international community are often confronted with a security gap, which could be a prelude to an explosive growth of crime and public disorder. In the absence of a functioning local police, an alternative is that the (international) military temporarily intervenes as interim police. This article analyzes how the Netherlands' military performed during security gaps in three (post)conflict ar…
Combat Motivation and Combat Action
This research note presents the findings of a survey study among veterans from the Netherlands armed forces who participated in operations since the Second World War. The aim of the study is to reveal the veterans' experiences with respect to their combat motivation-or lack thereof-and actual participation in combat actions. The data demonstrate that over time the degree of combat motivation has increased. The data also demonstrate that those who…
Sociology and Military Studies
This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world, and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas, theories and insights from sociology's founding authors, with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Karl M…
Jamaican Dons, Italian Godfathers and the Chances of a ‘Reversible Destiny
For close to 50 years, so-called ‘dons’ have positioned themselves as civic leaders in Jamaica, gaining acceptance among poor urban communities and (tacit) political recognition in the wider society. The dons' systematic, coercive organisation of the ghetto community and the counter-hegemonic, executive-style bureaucracy and culture entrenched here resembles the ‘godfather’-led criminal culture and power of the (Italian) Mafia. However, over the …
Peaceweaving
Beginning with the odd finding that “peace research is just the study of war,” this article explores “positive peace” as an important yet neglected notion in public administration. It does this by examining the ideas of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams, a pioneer in public administration and peace theory. More than 100 years ago, Addams refined an expansive notion of peace that incorporated social justice and social equity. Addams’s feminist…
Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism
In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced people. Explaining the origins and dynamics of such inhuman actions and events, this new sensitive and detailed analysis includes: full analysis of the origins of civil wars, terrorism and ethnic strife insights drawn from acro…
Interpreters at work
This research note examines the work of interpreters in the Dutch and Belgian contributions to peace operations in Bosnia and Afghanistan. We distinguish between two sorts of interpreters, locally hired people and interpreters who come along with the troops, and we focus on the way that interpreters behave in their interaction with both the military peacekeepers and the local population. It shows that interpreters are capable of offering more tha…
Consensus Societies with Their Own Character
Culture's consequences and the police
This paper deals with cultural and organizational differences between police forces in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. It emphasizes the significance of these differences for the up to now not very well elaborated cross‐border cooperation in border‐areas. As the increment of crime‐related border traffic necessitates cross‐border collaboration on a more structural base, it is needed that several measures should be taken. These measures shoul…
Towards Cultural Integration in Multinational Peace Operations
Multinational cooperation in military action is not really new. During the Napoleonic Wars as well as World Wars I and II, allied forces from various countries fought their way side by side against
Practices and challenges of converting former fighters into civil servants
This study critically discusses the practices and challenges of converting the former Eritrean fighters into civil servants and their management afterwards. The study finds that, although both categories of the Eritrean civil servants (ex and non-ex-fighters) have been working together since independence, ex-fighter civil servants were given special privileges in a number of human resource management (HRM) practices, such as recruitment and selec…
Turkish–dutch encounters in peace operations
This article examines cooperation between the Dutch and the Turkish armed forces during two peacekeeping missions, respectively in Kosovo (KFOR, 1999–2000) and Kabul (ISAF, 2002–2003). It is based on a literature survey and interviews with officers and NCOs of both sides. The article deals with the collaboration between the two armed forces as well as the interaction with the local populations in both areas of operation. Differences in style and …
Value Orientations in Military Academies
Internationalization is becoming a pervasive feature of military life. Therefore, empirical information on national cultural differences in the military sector is becoming increasingly relevant. One way to collect empirical data on this subject is to study value orientations of student officers in military academies. A comparative study based on this idea is reported in this article. The results indicate that national differences between the stud…
The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams
Jane Addams stands as perhaps one of the most prominent female voices in social theory of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While built through books, essays, journal articles, and speeches, her intellectual legacy has seldom been recognized as academic by contemporary audiences. Yet, over the last 40 years, her contributions to sociology, philosophy, conceptions of democracy, inquiry, feminism, care ethics, community engagement, social eth…
Practices and challenges of the training and utilization of labour in sub-Saharan Africa
This study critically analyses and discusses the way Eritrean civil servants are trained and utilized. This study shows that, except for specific areas, scarcity of skilled civil servants could not be considered as a major problem as it was in the early 1990s. The major challenge for the government would rather be how to utilize the existing staff effectively, particularly the expertise of the ex-trainees. In addition, the findings highlight the …
Dutch Courage
In this article we analyze the ways in which the risks of military missions and the prospects for casualties have made an impact on the deployment of soldiers by the Netherlands. The question is whether the self-image of being a military nation acts as a hindrance to participation when the going gets tough. The failure to protect the inhabitants of the Bosnian enclave Srebrenica can be viewed as a tragic case in point. A prudent politics of accep…
Civilizing and Informalizing
In this paper, we argue that an Eliasian approach is significant because of its long-term study of social processes and its attempt to show the intricate connection between macro-societal developments, such as state formation, and micro-level changes in manners, morals and mentalities. The paper illustrates the relevance of this perspective for organization studies through a discussion of one `nation-specific' and one `overarching' trend in the w…
Managing Militarily
In this article, the authors aim to apply well-known concepts of managerial work to the military. The concepts and methods used are derived from Henri Mintzberg, who paved the way in discovering the 'nature of managerial work.' The data are based on closely observing two commanding officers at Kabul International Airport, operated by the International Security Assistance Force. Those managers play different managerial roles, and the ability to de…
International Collaboration under Threat
This report examines Dutch military personnel's attitudes toward international cooperation, while these attitudes were expressed under threatening (during the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan) or nonthreatening circumstances (in Europe). Findings indicate that concerns about death were significantly more present in Afghanistan relative to Europe, and in Afghanistan, concerns about death were found to be negati…
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 …
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later
This article provides an account of the founding, growth, and success of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society (IUS), a long-established professional organization for those studying the military and war. How IUS has thrived invites explanation. Two theoretical themes guide our effort: first, the life cycles of organizations literature, and two, a complementary focus on the professional-career life cycles of IUS's participants. To…
Information sharing in multinational security and military operations. Why and why not? With whom and with whom not
Military operations increasingly require cooperation between agencies within the same nation, but also collaboration with security and military organizations internationally. Throughout history multinational military cooperation has often been an appropriate way to conduct major operations; national manpower and material resources are generally insufficient to address the demands of missions worldwide. The desire to optimize the use of scarce res…
Do Distinct (National) Operational Styles of Conflict Resolution Exist
This article contains a reply to a previously published paper on the use and abuse of the so-called Dutch approach to counterinsurgency. In addition to commenting on this paper, the article constitutes an argument to initiate more comparative studies in the field of military and strategic studies. Only comparative studies will help to better understand the effectiveness of military force in preventing, containing and solving violent conflicts
Reflections on Swedish Peacekeepers' Self-image and Dilemmas of Peacekeeping
Soldiers' self-images undoubtedly influence the way they recognize, perceive, plan and conduct their tasks. The article examines the self-image of Swedish peacekeepers in the UNMIL mission in Liberia and the UNMIK mission in Kosovo. The findings are based on interviews with 27 soldiers before, during and after deployment. Eleven dimensions of self-image were found, showing that the self-image refers almost entirely to the peacekeeping and not the…
Smooth Translation? A Research Note on the Cooperation between Dutch Service Personnel and Local Interpreters in Afghanistan
Multinational military missions increasingly rely on the recruitment of host nation interpreters. The purpose of this research note is to explore the relationship between the soldiers and these local translators during the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operation in Afghanistan. The findings suggest that more attention to the development of cross-cultural competencies among military personnel and a greater awareness of the precari…
Multicultural tensions in the military? Evidence from the Netherlands armed forces
Considering Casualties
Health care facilities and work incapacity
Organizational Culture
Culture's consequences and the police
This paper deals with cultural and organizational differences between police forces in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. It emphasizes the significance of these differences for the up to now not very well elaborated cross‐border cooperation in border‐areas. As the increment of crime‐related border traffic necessitates cross‐border collaboration on a more structural base, it is needed that several measures should be taken. These measures shoul…
Govemmental and Administrative Cultures in Belgium and the Netherlands
Evaluation of Organizational Change in the Dutch Armed Forces
This article addresses the evaluation of organizational changes in the Dutch armed forces. Increasingly, megatrends in the risk society affect the organization of all armed forces. To cope with these trends, new strategic ideas are being developed that will change organizations fundamentally. The question, however, is the way these ideas are dealt with at the operational level. From this perspective, evaluation is needed. Evaluation of changes in…
Culture and conflict
In this article, the origins of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia are reanalyzed using insights from Hofstede's (1980, 1991, 1994) theory on differences between national cultures. This material is intended to provide information to put the role of political elites in culture-related conflicts in a somewhat broader, embedded perspective. I argue that some societies are more susceptible to political manipulation than others. A comparative persp…
Value Orientations in Military Academies
Internationalization is becoming a pervasive feature of military life. Therefore, empirical information on national cultural differences in the military sector is becoming increasingly relevant. One way to collect empirical data on this subject is to study value orientations of student officers in military academies. A comparative study based on this idea is reported in this article. The results indicate that national differences between the stud…
Convergence or divergence in the multinational classroom? Experiences from the military
Civilizing and Informalizing
In this paper, we argue that an Eliasian approach is significant because of its long-term study of social processes and its attempt to show the intricate connection between macro-societal developments, such as state formation, and micro-level changes in manners, morals and mentalities. The paper illustrates the relevance of this perspective for organization studies through a discussion of one `nation-specific' and one `overarching' trend in the w…
Consensus Societies with Their Own Character
Cultural nationalism in Japan
Comparing Cultures
Culture explains much of the behavioral and institutional differences around the globe. In social science there are many ways of framing cultural diversities. This book brings together authors with a classic status in the field of comparative cultural studies on one overarching theme: what are the relevant differences and similarities of contemporary cultural dimensions with which countries, organizations, and people can be compared? This book is…
Turkish–dutch encounters in peace operations
This article examines cooperation between the Dutch and the Turkish armed forces during two peacekeeping missions, respectively in Kosovo (KFOR, 1999–2000) and Kabul (ISAF, 2002–2003). It is based on a literature survey and interviews with officers and NCOs of both sides. The article deals with the collaboration between the two armed forces as well as the interaction with the local populations in both areas of operation. Differences in style and …
Development of Trust among Soldiers on a Deployment Mission
Trust is important for the army for an external and an internal reason. The external reason relates to the various situations that servicemen may find themselves in during peace operations. They contact the local population and servicemen from other countries, people from various cultural backgrounds. They may come across minefields, or be confronted with suicide attacks. In all these situations they need to act with competence and predictability…
Public management in developing countries
A system of adequately performing public bureaucracies is a basic requirement for developing countries to progress and prosper. However, public management in developing countries is often threatened by politicization and ineffective human resource management policies. In this article, we analyse public management in Eritrea, one of the world’s poorest countries that gained independence in the early 1990s. In this analysis, we use general (western…
Practices and challenges of the training and utilization of labour in sub-Saharan Africa
This study critically analyses and discusses the way Eritrean civil servants are trained and utilized. This study shows that, except for specific areas, scarcity of skilled civil servants could not be considered as a major problem as it was in the early 1990s. The major challenge for the government would rather be how to utilize the existing staff effectively, particularly the expertise of the ex-trainees. In addition, the findings highlight the …
Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism
In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced people. Explaining the origins and dynamics of such inhuman actions and events, this new sensitive and detailed analysis includes: full analysis of the origins of civil wars, terrorism and ethnic strife insights drawn from acro…
Dutch Courage
In this article we analyze the ways in which the risks of military missions and the prospects for casualties have made an impact on the deployment of soldiers by the Netherlands. The question is whether the self-image of being a military nation acts as a hindrance to participation when the going gets tough. The failure to protect the inhabitants of the Bosnian enclave Srebrenica can be viewed as a tragic case in point. A prudent politics of accep…
Considering Casualties
Challenges and prospects of HRM in developing countries
In this article, the authors examine how, when and to what extent HR practices affect performance at the employee level. As performance is a multi-faceted and complicated concept, HRM outcomes were used as mediating factors between HR practices and employee performance. The data were collected among civil servants in Eritrea, Africa's youngest and poorest country. Although the results generally are in line with previous studies using Western data…
Interpreters at work
This research note examines the work of interpreters in the Dutch and Belgian contributions to peace operations in Bosnia and Afghanistan. We distinguish between two sorts of interpreters, locally hired people and interpreters who come along with the troops, and we focus on the way that interpreters behave in their interaction with both the military peacekeepers and the local population. It shows that interpreters are capable of offering more tha…
Practices and challenges of converting former fighters into civil servants
This study critically discusses the practices and challenges of converting the former Eritrean fighters into civil servants and their management afterwards. The study finds that, although both categories of the Eritrean civil servants (ex and non-ex-fighters) have been working together since independence, ex-fighter civil servants were given special privileges in a number of human resource management (HRM) practices, such as recruitment and selec…
Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism
International Collaboration under Threat
This report examines Dutch military personnel's attitudes toward international cooperation, while these attitudes were expressed under threatening (during the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan) or nonthreatening circumstances (in Europe). Findings indicate that concerns about death were significantly more present in Afghanistan relative to Europe, and in Afghanistan, concerns about death were found to be negati…
Accepting death in the military
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