CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Dinh, Chau |
|---|---|
| Title | A New Perspective on Civil-Military Relations: Military Deployments in COVID-19 Containment in Europe |
| Summary | As the virus COVID-19 took the world by surprise by the end of 2019, life as we know took a fundamental change as human contact was suddenly a phenomenon to avoid. At the quickly overwhelmed civilian healthcare and support systems, armed forces all over the world have been deployed in dealing with a public health crisis. How the military has been deployed differed from state to state, however, the militaries of twenty-six European Union Member States have engaged in tasks of four spheres of responsibilities: (1) logistics, (2) medicals, (3) mental health and psychosocial support and (4) security. While the majority of the armed forces fulfilled generally similar tasks in the logistical, medical and psychosocial support spheres, the most important difference lies in the degree and the nature of security tasks that they engage in. The thesis points out that it is not enough to look at such a phenomenon from the traditional civil-military relations perspective, but to situate this structure within its environment and to study the interactions among the citizenry, the civilian government and the military. By comparing the four cases of Germany, France, Poland and Hungary, the research provides evidence that environmental attributes of legal basis and the normalization of securitization narrative reflect the interactions within the civil-military relationship and help determine the security tasks handled by the respective armed forces in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Supervisor | Bozóki, András |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/dinh_chau.pdf |
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