This volume contributes to the comparative study of military conscription. Issues discussed include: a conceptual clarification of conscription as distinguished from volunteerism and militia service; the emergence of the citizen soldier model; patterns of anti-militarism before World War I; conscription in third world armies; gender-issues in relation to military service; the present phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa; the decline of conscript armies in Western Europe. A review section discusses the contribution of rational choice theory to the analysis of conscription into military forces.
- ISBN13 9780762308361
- Publish Date 18 January 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint JAI Press Inc.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 444
- Language English