The Conundrum of Order: The Concept of Governance from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

The term governance has made an impressive career in a number of disciplines concerned with regulation, order and law. This chapter draws on insights from legal studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, history and geography to paint a multifaceted picture of existing, competing and complementing approaches to the concept of governance. For reasons of space, the chapter can but point to the different variations on a theme, as governance occupies an ambivalent place in past and present discourses on political (or, legal or economic) order and society. It is argued that beyond pointing to crucial phases of methodological and theoretical transformation within different disciplines such as the often perceived transition ‘from government to governance’, governance is itself a deeply interdisciplinary concept

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND THE MILITARY

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) began to receive significant attention in the United States following the Vietnam War when experts reported that approximately 30 % of Vietnam veterans were afflicted. Recent estimates for Soldiers returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD symptoms run even higher. While the country continues efforts to find solutions and treatments for PTSD, a problem of utmost importance directly affecting our nation's security, the body of literature continues to grow. This revised and updated bibliography cites selected books, documents, articles, multimedia, and web sites for PTSD related topics such as diagnosis, prevention, training, treatment, reintegration, and family issues. A separate section also focuses on traumatic brain injury, the other signature injury experienced by military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. With a few notable exceptions, the materials in this bibliography are dated 2008 to the present. For earlier information, please refer to the previous editions of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military: A Selected Bibliography, compiled by Lori Sekela in November 2005 an