Civil-Military Relations in Taiwan
Identity and Transformation
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:7th Sep '18
Should be back in stock very soon
The armed forces of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan are in dire need of reform to address a plethora of problems including inadequate training, low morale, poor public perception, and low recruitment numbers. This book uses the postmodern military model to measure how public perception of the military is influenced by self-identification in Taiwan, and it shows that the public has little confidence or trust in their military, even as they remain acutely aware of the threat posed by an increasingly belligerent China and its ever-growing People's Liberation Army.
While there has been much analysis as to what strategies and weapons systems should be adopted by ROC defense planners, relatively little has been written on how to create a more relevant military within Taiwan society. Ultimately, this book addresses these matters and provides policymakers within the ROC government and military, as well as researchers of Asia Pacific security, with an understanding of the current relationship between military and society, to assist in the creation of a more accountable military.
Aiming to provide policymakers in the government and military of the Republic of China with an understanding of the current military-society relationship and help them create a more accountable military, the author applies the postmodern military model to civil-military relations in Taiwan, to study the impact of self-identification on a variety of perceptions of the Republic of China military and to what degree the beliefs of Taiwan's citizens about it are impacted by the way they identify ethnically, as either Chinese or Taiwanese. He explains the postmodern military model and the concept of ethnic self-identification, and assesses the military using the model according to the perceptions of the citizens of Taiwan in terms of the model’s dimensions of threat perception that drives the military and society in Taiwan, force structure and conscientious objectors in the military, the mission definition of the military, dominant military professional and civilian employees, spouses in the military community, women and homosexuals in the military, and public attitudes and media relations related to the military, ending with policy recommendations. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
ISBN: 9781787564824
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 240g
216 pages