New Civil-Military Relations and its Research Agendas

Challenge and Innovation: Civil-military Relations in a Changing World

The NGO-Military Contact Group (NMCG) Conferences provide a platform for civil-military relations and discussion of operational approaches and dilemmas. The distinguished speakers and audience members bring strong experience and analysis to the discussions. Dialogue on the day, particularly around operations in West Africa, Mali, and the Middle East, focussed on the practical. The conflict anal...

Civil - Military Relations in a Neo - Kantian World , 1886 - 1992

Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 227-254. SEUNG-WHAN CHOI is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He will join the faculty of the University of Illinois, Chicago in August 2004. He specializes in international politics (terrorism and international conf...

Civil-military Relations1

Who will guard the guardians? Political scientists since Plato have sought to answer this, the central question of the civil-military relations subfield. Although civil-military relations is a very broad subject, encompassing the entire range of relationships between the military and civilian society at every level, the field largely focuses on the control or direction of the military by the hi...

Changing Concepts of Security: the Implications for Civil-Military Relations and Defence Policy in Brazil

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...