Civil Military Relations In Perspective

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409429791

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The topic of civil-military relations has high significance for academics, for policy makers, for military commanders, and for serious students of public policy in democratic and other societies. The post-Cold War and post-9-11 worlds have thrown traditional as well as new challenges to the effective management of armed forces and defense establishments. Further, the present century has seen a rising arc in the use of armed violence on the part of non-state actors, including terrorists, to considerable political effect. Civil-military relations in the United States, and their implications for US and allied security policies, is the focus of most discussions in this volume, but other contributions emphasize the comparative and cross-national dimensions of the relationship between the use or threat of force and public policy. Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations; the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems; usefulness of business models in military management; the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventional conflicts; the experience of the all-volunteer force and its meaning for US civil-military relations; and other topics. Contributors include civilian academic and policy analysts and military officers with considerable academic expertise and experience with the subject matter.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317165378

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Civil-Military Relations in Perspective by Stephen J. Cimbala Pdf

The topic of civil-military relations has high significance for academics, for policy makers, for military commanders, and for serious students of public policy in democratic and other societies. The post-Cold War and post-9-11 worlds have thrown up traditional as well as new challenges to the effective management of armed forces and defense establishments. Further, the present century has seen a rising arc in the use of armed violence on the part of non-state actors, including terrorists, to considerable political effect. Civil-military relations in the United States, and their implications for US and allied security policies, is the focus of most discussions in this volume, but other contributions emphasize the comparative and cross-national dimensions of the relationship between the use or threat of force and public policy. Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations; the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems; the usefulness of business models in military management; the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventional conflicts; the experience of the all-volunteer force and its meaning for US civil-military relations; and other topics. Contributors include civilian academic and policy analysts as well as military officers with considerable academic expertise and experience with the subject matter at hand.

Author : Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319531892

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Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies by Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn Pdf

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that thus far have remained largely separate: the study of emerging (or failed) civilian control over armed forces on the one hand; and work on the roots and causes of military effectiveness to guarantee the protection and security of citizens on the other. The empirical and theoretical findings presented here will appeal to scholars of civil-military relations, democratization and security issues, as well as to defense policy-makers.

Author : Birgitte Refslund Sørensen,Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201963

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Civil–Military Entanglements by Birgitte Refslund Sørensen,Eyal Ben-Ari Pdf

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Author : Dale R. Herspring
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421409290

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Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility by Dale R. Herspring Pdf

A provocative approach to evaluating civil-military relations. Dale R. Herspring considers the factors that allow some civilian and military organizations to operate more productively in a political context than others, bringing into comparative study for the first time the military organizations of the U.S., Russia, Germany, and Canada. Refuting the work of scholars such as Samuel P. Huntington and Michael C. Desch, Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility approaches civil-military relations from a new angle, military culture, arguing that the optimal form of civil-military relations is one of shared responsibility between the two groups. Herspring outlines eight factors that contribute to conditions that promote and support shared responsibility among civilian officials and the military, including such prerequisites as civilian leaders not interfering in the military's promotion process and civilian respect for military symbols and traditions. He uses these indicators in his comparative treatment of the U.S., Russian, German, and Canadian militaries. Civilian authorities are always in charge and the decision on how to treat the military is a civilian decision. However, Herspring argues, failure by civilians to respect military culture will antagonize senior military officials, who will feel less free to express their views, thus depriving senior civilian officials, most of whom have no military experience, of the expert advice of those most capable of assessing the far-reaching forms of violence. This issue of civilian respect for military culture and operations plays out in Herspring's country case studies. Scholars of civil-military relations will find much to debate in Herspring's framework, while students of civil-military and defense policy will appreciate Herspring's brief historical tour of each countries' post–World War II political and policy landscapes.

Author : David Pion-Berlin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807875292

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Civil-Military Relations in Latin America by David Pion-Berlin Pdf

The armed forces may no longer rule nations throughout Latin America, but they continue to influence democratic governments across the region. In nine original, thought-provoking essays, this book offers fresh theoretical insights into the dilemmas facing Latin American politicians as they struggle to gain full control over their military institutions. Latin America has changed in profound ways since the end of the Cold War, the re-emergence of democracy, and the ascendancy of free-market economies and trade blocs. The contributors to this volume recognize the necessity of finding intellectual approaches that speak to these transformations. They utilize a wide range of contemporary models to analyze recent political and economic reform in nations throughout Latin America, presenting case studies on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela. Bridging the gap between Latin American studies and political science, these essays not only explore the forces that shape civil-military relations in Latin America but also address larger questions of political development and democratization in the region. The contributors are Felipe Aguero, J. Samuel Fitch, Wendy Hunter, Ernesto Lopez, Brian Loveman, David R. Mares, Deborah L. Norden, David Pion-Berlin, and Harold A. Trinkunas. Latin American Studies/Political Science

Author : Morris Janowitz
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981-10
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002698523

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Civil-Military Relations by Morris Janowitz Pdf

'...is likely to exert a powerful influence on future studies in civil-military relations.' -- Perspective, June 1982 'Janowitz and his collaborators have prepared a very useful book that afford not only the student of armed forces and society but also those interested in comparative societal dynamics a set of working hypotheses with which to amplify their reflections on these matters.' -- American Journal of Sociology

Author : Dale R. Herspring
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421409283

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Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility by Dale R. Herspring Pdf

A provocative approach to evaluating civil-military relations. Dale R. Herspring considers the factors that allow some civilian and military organizations to operate more productively in a political context than others, bringing into comparative study for the first time the military organizations of the U.S., Russia, Germany, and Canada. Refuting the work of scholars such as Samuel P. Huntington and Michael C. Desch, Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility approaches civil-military relations from a new angle, military culture, arguing that the optimal form of civil-military relations is one of shared responsibility between the two groups. Herspring outlines eight factors that contribute to conditions that promote and support shared responsibility among civilian officials and the military, including such prerequisites as civilian leaders not interfering in the military's promotion process and civilian respect for military symbols and traditions. He uses these indicators in his comparative treatment of the U.S., Russian, German, and Canadian militaries. Civilian authorities are always in charge and the decision on how to treat the military is a civilian decision. However, Herspring argues, failure by civilians to respect military culture will antagonize senior military officials, who will feel less free to express their views, thus depriving senior civilian officials, most of whom have no military experience, of the expert advice of those most capable of assessing the far-reaching forms of violence. This issue of civilian respect for military culture and operations plays out in Herspring's country case studies. Scholars of civil-military relations will find much to debate in Herspring's framework, while students of civil-military and defense policy will appreciate Herspring's brief historical tour of each countries' post–World War II political and policy landscapes.

Author : Claude Emerson Welch (Jr.),Arthur K. Smith
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008296058

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Military Role and Rule by Claude Emerson Welch (Jr.),Arthur K. Smith Pdf

Author : J. Stephen Hoadley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351488822

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Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia by J. Stephen Hoadley Pdf

By exploring the role of military officers and chronicling the sequences of events, Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia offers insight into the conditions that fostered military governments specifically in Thailand, Burma, South Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Critically comparing these case studies and statistics, this volume provides readers with a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of military involvement in the region's politics during the post-colonial period covered.Two ideologically opposed positions evolved around the phenomenon of military insurgency. Technological conservatism generally favors military insurgency in previously civilian-led governments. There was a presumption that it encourages stability, efficiency, and anti-communism. The revisionist position, on the other hand, was highly critical of technological conservatism, especially with regard to its political fervor. J. Stephen Hoadley asserts that the relevant question is not one of ideological choices; rather, it is whether a military or civilian-led government is better suited for the political and economic development of a particular underdeveloped nation. Hoadley argues that there is little difference between military and civilian-led governments in their abilities to establish stability and maintain law.The book concludes that neither conservative nor radical views are fully correct as to the effects of military-led governments on development. Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia focuses exclusively on civil-military politics in Southeast Asia in a critical period for the region, and it should be read by all individuals interested in Southeast Asian politics and development long after Cold War issues have come to a close.

Author : Suzanne C. Nielsen,Don M. Snider
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801892875

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American Civil-Military Relations by Suzanne C. Nielsen,Don M. Snider Pdf

politics, and national security policy.--John R. Ballard "On Point"

Author : Joseph Stephen Hoadley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Civil supremacy over the military
ISBN : LCCN:nsl00002593

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Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia by Joseph Stephen Hoadley Pdf

Author : Jim Mattis,Kori N. Schake
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817919368

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Warriors and Citizens by Jim Mattis,Kori N. Schake Pdf

A diverse group of contributors offer different perspectives on whether or not the different experiences of our military and the broader society amounts to a "gap"—and if the American public is losing connection to its military. They analyze extensive polling information to identify those gaps between civilian and military attitudes on issues central to the military profession and the professionalism of our military, determine which if any of these gaps are problematic for sustaining the traditionally strong bonds between the American military and its broader public, analyze whether any problematic gaps are amenable to remediation by policy means, and assess potential solutions. The contributors also explore public disengagement and the effect of high levels of public support for the military combined with very low levels of trust in elected political leaders—both recurring themes in their research. And they reflect on whether American society is becoming so divorced from the requirements for success on the battlefield that not only will we fail to comprehend our military, but we also will be unwilling to endure a military so constituted to protect us. Contributors: Rosa Brooks, Matthew Colford,Thomas Donnelly, Peter Feaver, Jim Golby, Jim Hake, Tod Lindberg, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Cody Poplin, Nadia Schadlow, A. J. Sugarman, Lindsay Cohn Warrior, Benjamin Wittes

Author : Are John Knudsen,Tine Gade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319551678

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Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon by Are John Knudsen,Tine Gade Pdf

This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) cohesion and threatens its neutrality – its most valued assets in a divided society. The spill-over from the Syrian civil war and Hezbollah’s military engagement has magnified the security challenges facing the Army, making it a target. Massive foreign grants have sought to strengthen its military capability, stabilize the country and contain the Syria crisis. However, as this volume demonstrates, the real weakness of the LAF is not its lack of sophisticated armoury, but the fragile civil–military relations that compromise its fighting power, cripple its neutrality and expose it to accusations of partisanship and political bias. This testifies to both the importance of and the challenges facing multi-confessional armies in deeply divided countries.

Author : J.Stephen Hoadley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:281873438

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Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia by J.Stephen Hoadley Pdf