Military Business: Explaining Support for Policy Change in China, Cuba, and Vietnam

In: Problems of post-communism, Band 51, Heft 6, S. 44-63

Abstract

Utilizes a comparative methodology to examine developments in the role of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR) in Cuba, seeking both to redress the omission of such an approach in theoretical & analytical studies of the FAR & to answer the call for more cross-regional comparisons. The research issue considered here & the cross-regional, multiple case study perspective -- examining Cuban, Chinese, & Vietnamese civil military operations -- are part of an attempt to respond to empirical & methodological questions in scholarship in this area. These examples offer inferences & generalizations that can be of use in theorizing civil-military relations in post-Cold War totalitarian states. Comparison also illuminates the military's function in the political & economic development -- or lack thereof -- in these regimes. 1 Table, 1 photograph.