The Implications of Marketized Security for IR Theory: The Democratic Peace, Late State Building, and the Nature and Frequency of Conflict
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 4, Heft 3
ISSN: 1541-0986
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 4, Heft 3
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: New political economy, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 121-131
ISSN: 1469-9923
In: New political economy, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 121-132
ISSN: 1356-3467
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 361-382
ISSN: 1469-9044
Prevailing analyses of INGO influence have focused on their advocacy role, claimed that they are motivated by values and assumed state monopoly over legitimate coercive power. As INGOs increasingly implement policy where state power is weak or non-existent, their commitment to their mission frequently causes action that violates their proper role. This article examines one case to probe how the INGOs community responds when the principles to which it is committed conflict and generates two findings. First, when principles conflict, they structure competing responses to a problem and who falls on which side reflects a kind of 'bureaucratic politics' of the transnational community. Second, principled actors have a hard time reasoning through trade-offs when values conflict. The same principled commitments that yield more success in advocacy roles may hinder success in policy implementation.
In: International studies perspectives: ISP, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 153-157
ISSN: 1528-3585
In: FP, Heft 143, S. 20-29
ISSN: 0015-7228
World Affairs Online
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 742-744
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: International studies perspectives: a journal of the International Studies Association, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 153-157
ISSN: 1528-3577
In: Contemporary security policy, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 163-164
ISSN: 1352-3260, 0144-0381
In: Armed forces & society, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 523-524
ISSN: 1556-0848
In: International organization, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 41-72
ISSN: 1531-5088
Mercenary armies went out of style in the nineteenth century; it became common sense that armies should be staffed with citizens. I argue that even though realist explanations focusing on the fighting prowess of citizen armies and sociological explanations focusing on the fit between citizen armies and prevailing ideas can rationalize this change, they cannot explain it. I examine, instead, the politics behind the new reliance on citizen armies and argue that material and ideational turmoil provided important antecedent conditions for change. Beyond this, individual states were more likely to move toward citizen armies when they had been defeated militarily and when the ruling coalition was split or indifferent about the reforms tied to citizen armies. Finally, the apparent success of citizen armies in France and then Prussia made do mestic conditions for reform easier to obtain in other countries, reinforcing the likelihood that the solution would be replicated. I conclude that the interaction between domestic politics and path dependency provides a promising source of hypotheses for explaining the conditions under which new ways of war emerge and spread.
In: International organization, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 41-72
ISSN: 0020-8183
In: Armed forces & society, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 375-387
ISSN: 1556-0848
The indicators of the crisis in American civil-military relations can be disaggregated into three categories: (1) the level of military influence on policy; (2) the degree to which the military is representative of society; and (3) the level of civil-military tension. Behind each indicator is a different implicit theory about civil-military relations. These theories offer contradictory assessments about what we should want civil-military relations to be. Therefore, holding the current American civil-military relationship to all three standards is logically untenable. Reviewing the crisis literature and the various theories of civil-military relations underlying the different arguments suggests the need for a more nuanced research program examining the balance between efficiency and accountability inherent in the civil-military relationship.