Civil-Military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict
Civil-Military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict

Author: P. James

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-05

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1403978255

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Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. Each is significant in explaining decisions over dispute involvement. The temporal scope is broad while the geographic scope is global. The result is sophisticated analysis of the causes of conflict and factors that can ameliorate it, and a generalizable approach to the study of foreign relations. The findings that media openness contributes to peaceful resolution of disputes, that the greater the influence of the military the more likely for their to be interstate disputes, that conscription is likely to have the same effect, and that increases in diplomatic interaction correlate with increased conflict are sure to generate debate.

Civil-military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict, 1889-1992
Civil-military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict, 1889-1992

Author: Seung-Whan Choi

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13:

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In response to Russett and Oneal's (2001) "triangulation" of the peace, I have attempted to build an interactive foreign policy decision-making process model with a special emphasis on four additional factors--civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. This is what is meant by the 'look beyond' in the title of the dissertation. Empirical results from both logit and neural network models indicate that media openness, not democraticness (as measured primarily through the degree of constraint on the chief executive), is a key element in accounting for both MID involvement and MID-related casualties. Further, I have found that peace researchers need to 'quadrangulate' the peace in specific ways: (1) the more powerful military leadership within civil-military relations, the more likely dyads are to become involved in MIDs or experience MID-related casualties; (2) under a conscription system, dyads are more likely to engage in MIDs; and (3) more diplomatic channels in a dyad may unexpectedly indicate the potential for an increase in the occurrence of MIDs or MID-related casualties.

The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations
The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations

Author: Florina Cristiana Matei

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1000471624

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This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations. The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police in fighting crime, support civilian authorities in dealing with natural disasters, and fight against terrorists and in internal conflicts. The existing literature on this subject is limited in its discussion of warfighting and thus does not do justice to the variety of roles. This second edition not only fills this important lacuna but offers an up-to-date comparative analysis and provides a conceptual framework to analyze how strategies can realistically be implemented. Amalgamating ideas from key thinkers in the field, the book is organized into three main thematic parts: Part I: Civil-Military Relations in Non-Democratic States and Illiberal Democracies; Part II: Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies; Part III: Civil-Military Relations in Established Democracies. This handbook will be essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of civil-military relations, defense studies, war and conflict studies, international security, and IR in general.

Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment
Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment

Author: Steven Ratuva

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 981132008X

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This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and South American regions. The book is interdisciplinary and covers wide-ranging issues relating to civil military relations, democratization, regional security, ethnicity, peace-building and peace keeping, civilian oversight, internal repression, gender, regime change and civil society.

Choosing Your Battles
Choosing Your Battles

Author: Peter D. Feaver

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2005-09-11

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0691124272

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America's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps. Top military officials appeared reluctant to use force, the most hawkish voices in government were civilians who had not served in uniform, and everyone was worried that the American public would not tolerate casualties in war. This book shows that this civilian-military argument--which has characterized earlier debates over Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosovo--is typical, not exceptional. Indeed, the underlying pattern has shaped U.S. foreign policy at least since 1816. The new afterword by Peter Feaver and Christopher Gelpi traces these themes through the first two years of the current Iraq war, showing how civil-military debates and concerns about sensitivity to casualties continue to shape American foreign policy in profound ways.

Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations
Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations

Author: Lionel Beehner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0197535526

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This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era, or the first decade of the twenty-first century. A great deal has changed since then. This book considers the implications for civil-military relations of many of these changes. Specifically, it focuses on factors such as breakdowns in democratic and civil-military norms and conventions; intensifying partisanship and deepening political divisions in American society; as well as new technology and the evolving character of armed conflict. Chapters are organized around the principal actors in civil-military relations, and the book includes sections on the military, civilian leadership, and the public. It explores the roles and obligations of each. The book also examines how changes in contemporary armed conflict influence civil-military relations. Chapters in this section examine the cyber domain, grey zone operations, asymmetric warfare and emerging technology. The book thus brings the study of civil-military relations into the contemporary era, in which new geopolitical realities and the changing character of armed conflict combine with domestic political tensions to test, if not potentially redefine, those relations.

Civil–Military Relations in the Islamic World
Civil–Military Relations in the Islamic World

Author: Paul E. Lenze, Jr.

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1498518745

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Since the Arab Spring, militaries have received renewed attention regarding their intervention into politics of Middle Eastern and South Asian states. This book examines the factors which influence military intervention and withdrawal from politics—namely, United States and Soviet/Russian economic and military aid—and how this affects democratic transitions and consolidation. The militaries of Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey, have used nationalism to justify their interventions into politics while ensuring that withdrawal would only occur if national identity were protected. This book examines important states in the Islamic World which have experienced similar historical trajectories, briefly experimented with democracy, and had the military become a dominant institution in the state. All four countries differ in their levels of ethnic conflict, importance placed on the country by the international community, and internal security concerns. The common result of international influence on political development, however, is that the military will take a keener interest in politics and be more reluctant to disengage.