Soldiers and Governments. Nine Studies in Civil-Military Relations

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...

Do Broad Based Governments Discourage Civil War?

This paper links the share of the population supporting the government to the risk of civil war. We study the question both theoretically and empirically. The theoretical model shows that having a smaller group of individuals control the government has an ambiguous effect on conflict risk: although a smaller group is less able to resist rebellion, its high per capita office rent, cost of regain...

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