Brazil led the military contingent of MINUSTAH during 13 years mission and was also largest contributor with troops for this mission. This paper argues that what has been described as ‘Brazilian way’ civil-military relations in peacekeeping is illustrative Brazilian association between notions security development at home. The mandate actually representative efforts to promote new paradigms UN ...

Abstract:The emergence and rise of the Islamic spheres in contemporary times have become one of the most important research topics of recent years and in this area literature is being developed. All those who are doing research in their quest are seeking to answer the question of what factors have led to the politicalization of Islam…? Accordingly, each researcher and writer examines the ...

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...

Destructivity: a Political Economy of Military Effectiveness in Conventional Combat by Charles A. Miller Department of Political Science Duke University Date:

Does public debate about the pros and cons of the UK's involvement in Iraq undermine the chances of military success? Radha Iyengar examines the incentives of Iraqi insurgent groups to commit acts of violence, their responses to public opinion in the West, and the lessons for both communications policy and counter-insurgency strategy. T he Chilcot inquiry into the UK's involvement in Iraq betwe...

This article examines the activities of Soviet military-political organs in Baltic Fleet. It shows that web party institutions transformed fleet into a space political and social activism had little to do with strictly military aspects government policy. Such was nevertheless unfailingly promoted, even as it became clear compromised core elements efficiency such discipline well-defined chains c...

This article examines how the experience and critique of their country's decline led Spaniards to craft a distinct discourse of masculinity in the seventeenth century. As they self-consciously examined Spain's crisis and offered political and economic solutions, these same writers also offered a scathing critique of standards of masculinity. Using the figure of the ideal nobleman as a case stud...