Major determinants of third world military industrialization operate at the domestic, regional, and global levels. I examine the relative importance of these by analyzing time-series cross-section data for the twelve leading third world arms producers from 1968 to 1990. Arms production depends the state’s industrial capacity and is enhanced by the state’s capacity to produce weapons for export....

Almost two decades since conflict broke out between Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia, two northern neighbors of Iran, in Nagorno – Karabakh region. Although military conflict in this region has minimized with the existing ceasefire, and reaching a sustainable agreement is likely to be happened by the two parties. Close regional and international cooperation seems necessary more than ever in o...

An open question in nuclear deterrence theory is whether and how the balance of military power affects the dynamics of escalation. The balance of military strength plays virtually no role in standard accounts of brinkmanship. But this largely by assumption and seems incompatible with an apparent trade-off between power and risk that decision makers faced in some actual crises. This paper incorp...

This article explores how issues of security, conflict, violence and the military are considered in the sustainability literature. Despite these issues not being particularly well developed within the sustainability setting, various approaches are identified, critiqued, and compiled into a preliminary typology framed around reformist and transformational approaches to a sustainable world. The a...

Advancements in medical treatment and transport over more than a decade of conflict have resulted in unprecedented survival rates for service members despite catastrophic injuries. Enhanced survival has created an unprecedented need for comprehensive rehabilitation and transition services. Though far from the exclusive domain of military dermatologists, military medicine has had a prominent rol...

Social relationships are important to health out comes. The postdeployment family reintegration literature focuses on the role of the civilian family in facilitating the transition from Active Duty military deployment to civilian society. The focus on the civilian family relationship may miss other important personal connections in veterans' lives. One such connection is the relationship many v...

OBJECTIVE To assess outcome differences between locally burned civilians and military personnel burned in a distant combat zone treated in the same facility. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA The United States Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) Burn Center serves as a referral center for civilians and is the sole center for significant burns in military personnel. We made the hypothesis that ...

This article examines how Indonesian diplomacy takes place in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Armed friction and clashes between Palestinian fighters Israeli military still occur can even affect civilians. Judging from history of Indonesia's closeness to Palestine, Indonesia is one countries that actively call for independence Palestine with a two-state solution. described using conflict reso...

In the context of contemporary peacekeeping operations, NATO states established civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) – a military function aiming at maintaining contact between armed forces and other civilian actors present in an area operations. As result their tasks, CIMIC soldiers are confronted with various expectations pertaining to behaviour, principles values. This pool normative requireme...