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Rethinking Military Professionalism: Considering Culture and Gender

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Rethinking Military Professionalism for the Changing Armed Forces

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Theories of military professionalism have not been developed to account for aspects of gender and diversity, such as the underlying socio-cultural aspects of the dominant male-oriented warrior framework, cross-cultural applications, civil-military and international relations, and how leadership and socialization play a role in member conduct and shaping military identity. Based on this gap, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exploratory team and subsequent research task group (RTG) was established to examine military professionalism. The following chapter provides an overview of the reasons for establishing the RTG, the goals of the panel in considering gender and diversity in the conceptualization of military professionalism, and a summary of what can be expected in this edited book.

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Hachey, K.K. (2020). Rethinking Military Professionalism: Considering Culture and Gender. In: Hachey, K., Libel, T., Dean, W. (eds) Rethinking Military Professionalism for the Changing Armed Forces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45570-5_1

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