The military has traditionally been a group within the nation state which has had deep rooted local identities grounded in class, regional, ethnic, national, and religious realities. The processes of regionalisation eg the European Union and even more so Globalisation which challenges the existence of the sovereign state boundaries, has resulted in the military expressing a desire to re seek their identity and role. The military organisations within states and professional soldiers are increasingly experiencing encounters with other cultures, linked to the intensification of globalizing forces and growing transnational exchanges, creating situations where the military feels that their role is being challenged or problematized. This is seeing expression in civil military relations. The military through the processes of socio economic Globalisation are being forced by civil authorities to seek trans national co operation which in turn reduces the need for the military and the use of force. This creates a number of wider social or political consequences that this book will address both in the domestic national context of the relations between soldier, citizen and state and in the international context of the use of military force in international affairs.
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