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Ausgabe 2-2010

Themenschwerpunkt:
Innere und äussere Sicherheit
Internal and External Security

INHALT

Editorial | download full article as pdf
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Themenschwerpunkt:
Innere und äussere Sicherheit
Internal and External Security

Forum

  • Auswahlwehrpflicht: eine zeitgemäße Weiterentwicklung der allgemeinen Wehrpflicht?
    Christian Bernzen und Christoph Bertram
    Seite 110

  • Eine Auswahlwehrpflicht greift zu kurz
    Jürgen Groß
    Seite 113

  • Die allgemeine Wehrpflicht in Deutschland – zur aktuellen Debatte um die Wehrform in unserem Land
    Ulrich Kirsch
    Seite 115

Dokumentation
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Neuerscheinung
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Annotationen | download full article as pdf
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Besprechungen | download full article as pdf
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ENGLISH ABSTRACTS

The Institutional Interweaving of Internal and External Security in Europe
Ines-Jacqueline Werkner
The term “security” has historically developed and differentiated itself with the Peace of Westphalia and the constituting of the modern nation-state. Security became a responsibility of the state. As of this time, a distinction of responsibility between internal and external security has been considered to be one of the characteristics of the nation-state. In the field of external security, international law has been established, whereas the internal security is based on the respective national legal and constitutional norms. Nevertheless, ambitions to link internal and external security more strongly have risen since the terror attacks of 9/11. Against the background of this controversy, current tendencies towards an increased interweaving of internal and external security in Europe will be surveyed and subjected to a critical analysis.

Conceptualising Non-traditional Roles and Tasks of Armed Forces
Albrecht Schnabel and Danail Hristov
Armed forces around the world are involved in non-traditional roles and tasks beyond their core competence of defending the state from external threats. Evolving non-traditional tasks include international, domestic, military and non-military ones, both independently and subsidiary to other security institutions’ activities. Considerable variation exists across countries in the development, scope and nature of such non-traditional roles. This article presents a conceptual framework in order to allow comparative analyses of evolving non-traditional roles of armed forces. Focusing primarily on international and domestic roles as entry points to a discussion of non-traditional roles, it further illustrates the utility of this conceptual framework by drawing on a number of selected armed forces in established democracies in Western Europe, setting the stage for further analysis of the motivations, opportunities, risks and implications of evolving non-traditional roles and tasks.

Time to be More Serious about Post-Conflict Police Development
Alexander Mayer-Rieckh
As of 2009, over 11,000 international police officers from more than 100 countries were deployed in 18 United Nations peace operations. Crisis management missions of the European Union also rely heavily on international police components. Over the years, the mandates of international police missions have widened from traditional monitoring responsibilities to a broad array of police development and security sector reform tasks. Yet the structures, resources and skill sets of international police missions do not match their mandates. Only fundamental structural changes will enable international support to post-conflict police reform and development to deliver on the promises it has not met so far.

Wearing the Outside In: Internal Deployment of the Armed Forces in Germany and Italy
Derek Lutterbeck
Since the end of the Cold War, many if not all, European or Western countries have increasingly used their armed forces for missions within the borders of the state. The aim of this article is to compare the internal deployment of the military in two European countries: Germany and Italy, both of which experienced authoritarian rule and militarism in the 20th century. However, despite similar historical experiences, there have been considerable differences between the two countries in terms of the roles their armed forces have come to play in addressing domestic challenges in recent years. Indeed, they may represent opposite extremes on a spectrum ranging from very limited to very far-reaching involvement of military forces in internal (security) matters.

Bundeswehr im Einsatz: Erweitertes Aufgabenspektrum und dessen Wahrnehmung im Spiegel der öffentlichen Meinung
Rüdiger Fiebig und Carsten Pietsch
This article presents findings from the annual public opinion survey on security and defence issues, conducted by the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences. It focuses on the current and emerging spectrum of operations of the German armed forces engaging terrorist threats at home and abroad. Owing to its contributions to global military operations against terrorism, Germany has to re-evaluate its traditional military posture which is framed by the unique setting of the German constitution, due to its specific historic experience of 1933-1945. This article provides an overview of the institutional background as well as attitudes of the German population.

Der internationale Terrorismus als Herausforderung des deutschen Strafrechts – Erwägungen zu einer Gratwanderung
Milan Kuhli
The phenomenon of terrorism makes people fear about the internal security in Germany – a fear which results in the demand for state reactions. This article asks to what extent criminal law is a proper instrument with which to come to terms with the phenomenon of terrorism. Unlike “ordinary” criminals, terrorists embrace a system of absolute beliefs and convictions. But in democratic cultures, such absolute beliefs and convictions are subject to the outcomes of democratic procedures, and thus the terrorist necessarily stands outside such a culture. Criminal law in a rule of law state fundamentally depends on communicating with criminals – sending a message of deterrence, for example, or of condemnation, or serving any of a number of other expressive functions. And the question with terrorists whose views are so absolute as to be unalterable is whether such communication is possible at all. These are practical limits to the use of criminal law as an instrument with which to deal with terrorism, but there are also normative limits, which are discussed in this article as well.