Received: 1 November 2008 Revised: 27 July 2009 Accepted: 27 July 2009 Online publication date: 7 January 2010 Abstract Although multinationals operate under cross-border jurisdictions, the relevance of interstate security relations to international business has received little attention. Despite the impressive accumulation of knowledge in international business and international relations, the...

In Command and Out of Control: Leaders Developing Teams that Thrive in Chaos and Ambiguity, by LTC James J Smith, USA, 58 pages. The character of armed conflict continues to change at an alarming rate due to extremist ideologies, reassertion of global hegemons, climate change, cyber conflict, infectious disease, and the ubiquity of technological advances. This type of environment provides compe...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...

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...

In this paper, we evaluate the liberal claim that democratic states devote fewer resources to their militaries. Low military spending is thought to avert conflict spirals and release more resources to fund domestic programs. While prominent in many liberal international relations theories, most notably in Immanuel Kant’s, this proposition has received little empirical scrutiny. Using several in...

Targeting health care has become a deliberate military strategy. How can the international community make conflict parties respect the rules of war? Jan Dirk Herbermann and Fiona Fleck report.

Abstract How does the presence of military officers in national government affect a state's likelihood international conflict? We know great deal about how overall regime type affects conflict, but there is substantial variation within types participation government. little this conflict propensity. In Research Note, I examine three competing arguments for effect on initiation: Military Aggress...

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...

What is the relationship between armed violence and patriarchal values? This question addressed with help of a survey young men in conflict-affected southern provinces Thailand. In Study 1 we find that more values are prone to volunteer for paramilitary service. 2 uses natural experiment made possible by conscription lottery Thailand compare responses who were involuntarily enlisted do Military...

economic sanctions appear to be a common feature of political interactions between states. economic sanctions have become increasingly important as alternative to military conflict since the last decade of twentieth century. this paper provides, through a gravity model, an estimation of the impact of economic sanctions on bilateral trade flows between iran and its major trading partners during ...