Al tien jaar lang vormt de samenwerking binnen het Duits-Nederlandse Corps onderwerp van onderzoek. Dit binationale legerkorps werd in 1995 opgericht. De binationale staf is nu multinationaal en werd een internationaal hoofdkwartier. Over de Duits-Nederlandse samenwerking is diverse malen in dit tijdschrift gepubliceerd. …

The authors present the findings of ten years of research concerning binational military cooperation in the First German-Netherlands Corps, founded in 1995. The start of this binational corps was accompanied with some worries because the interaction between Germans and Dutch in the populations at large …

This report examines Dutch military personnel’s attitudes toward international cooperation, while these attitudes were expressed under threatening (during the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan) or nonthreatening circumstances (in Europe). Findings indicate that concerns …

This article presents the findings of a study into the moral judgement of Dutch officers, officer-candidates and university students. The study was based on the Moral Judgement Test developed by Lind, which aims to analyze the moral skills of respondents in judging ethical dilemmas. In this quantitative …

Since western societies are threatened by culture-related terrorist attacks, multicultural attitudes are changing and intercultural tensions induce ethnic groups to stand opposite towards each other. This renders ethnic and cultural diversity an important subject for research, not only in society at large, …

In 2004 verscheen in dit tijdschrift een artikel over ontmoetingen tussen de Nederlandse en Turkse krijgsmacht tijdens de vredesoperaties in Kosovo en Afghanistan. Een van de belangrijke conclusies van dat artikel was dat de Turkse respondenten zich er op lieten voorstaan dat zij zulke goede contacten …

Militair zijn betekent onder meer bereid zijn om onder levensbedreigende omstandigheden taken vervullen. Oorlog of inzet in een expeditionaire krijgsmacht voor vredeshandhavende of afdwingende taken betekent nogal eens een confrontatie met levensbedreigende omstandigheden. Minister Kamp stelt in de …

The authors research the efficacy of Terror Management Theory. Their starting point is the disruption caused by the existential threat of death on military operations, particularly on international stabilization operations that are complicated by problems of coordination and communication between participating …

The new environment in which current military operations take place is often characterized by unpredictable and ambiguous situations. This places new demands on military personnel. In combination with high levels of violence and threat, these situations will elicit acute stress reactions, which can impair performance …