How does the domestic political climate within democratic states affect the duration of their foreign military engagements? To answer this question we combine a rationalist model of war termination with a theory about how partisan politics affects the policy preferences of national leaders to predict the duration of democratic military interventions. Specifically, we examine how changes in a ch...

The Public Sector Defense market is undergoing radical changes due to the ever-changing global and local political circumstances. As a result of this, political leaders are demanding changes that will affect all aspects within military organizations. In addition to that budget constraints that are imposed within the government also put a burden on the military decision makers. For more than 30 ...

On 16 May 2006, after months of intense and divisive national debate, the Senate of Nigeria rejected a bill which would have changed that country’s constitution to permit President Olusegun Obasanjo a third term in office. By asserting the supremacy of the constitution (with its two-term limit) over the desires of President Obasanjo’s supporters that the popular leader be permitted to run for a...

changes in the rate of women socio-political participation and presence are among the changes and developments occurred in socio-political sphere in iran in the recent decades. it is expected that as women capabilities and education rate and international interactions increase, their socio-political participation and presence especially in legislature branch increase dramatically as well. this ...

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 put extreme pressures on the relations between the American defense and decision-making apparatuses. While the military pushed for a military intervention, President Kennedy and his advisors wished to safeguard nonmilitary options. The tensions between the two systems can be analyzed in terms of communication systems with different rationalities: whereas the pol...

The primary concern of this research is to reassess the British foreign policy, focusing on its military withdrawal in 1971 from the Persian Gulf and its return in 2014. The Persian Gulf, as a region of geo-strategic importance, has always been at the center of attention for the UK and other great world powers. This study will therefore attempt to answer the following question: what are the rea...

Since holding elections in 2010, Myanmar has transitioned from a direct military dictatorship to a formally democratic system and has embarked on a period of rapid economic reform. After two decades of military rule, the pace of change has startled almost everyone and led to a great deal of cautious optimism. To make sense of the transition and assess the case for optimism, this article explore...