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Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-179-2026
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Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
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16 Mar 2026
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Preparing for war: citizenship, militarization and the agencies of children and youth in security politics

Kathrin Hörschelmann and Lukas Dreßen

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This paper examines how young people are enrolled in military security politics as a politics of killing and letting die that is enabled by generational injustice. Based on the analysis of the three case studies of military recruitment and citizenship in France, Sweden, and Latvia, the paper argues for greater attention to the militarization of young people’s lives and to the ethical and generational justice implications of this.
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