Correction to: Filippo Boni, Sino-Pakistani Relations: Politics, Military and Regional Dynamics

Sino-Indian Relations ―From Hostility to Mutual Cooperation and Complementation

1.1 The changes in bilateral political and diplomatic relations India gained its independence from being a colony of Great Britain in 1947. The People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949. The next year, in 1950, the Indian and Chinese governments established diplomatic relations, and India was the first country outside the socialist block to recognize the People’s Republic of China. As a re...

Politicized Armies, Militarized Politics: Civil-military Relations in Turkey and Greece

Despite their common Ottoman heritage, Greece and Turkey have diverged widely in their modem history of civil-military relations. The armed forces have a long record of intervention in both countries, but there is a crucial difference: the military emerged as a roughly unitary, independent political actor in Turkey, whereas in Greece it remained divided into factions aligned with civilian polit...

- 01694 - 0 - Politics and the Russian Army : Civil – Military Relations , 1689 – 2000 Brian

This book is about Russian soldiers and the tsars, Communist Party bosses, and presidents they have served. The historic exploits of the Russian and Soviet armies, which crushed Napoleon and Hitler, are well known. This book tells a different, lesser known story about Russian soldiers: the role they have played in domestic politics. As the process of Russian democratization lurches along – one ...

The Politics of Military Spending

Irredentism, the Diaoyu Islands, and Sino-Japanese Relations