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This article argues that a decade after the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe, the establishment of democratic civil-military relations has moved on from first generation issues of institutional restructuring to second generation challenges relating to the democratic consolidation of these relationships. In practice, these have more to do with issues of state capacity-building and bureaucratic modernization with the traditional concerns of the civil-military relations literature. In most cases, the problem is not the establishment of civilian control over the armed forces or the separation of the military from politics, but rather that of the effective execution of democratic governance of the defense and security sector-particularly in relation to defense policy-making, legislative oversight and the effective engagement of civil-society in a framework of democratic legitimacy and accountability.

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Ghana has one of the longest histories of contribution to international peacekeeping operations, beginning with Kwame Nkrumah's pan-Africanist support for peacekeeping after independence. It also has the distinction of being one of the most stable democracies in Africa, despite multiple coups and years of military rule. Interviews with members of the Ghana Armed Forces indicate that these two phenomena may be related—Ghanaians who served in international peacekeeping missions, particularly in the 1990s, seem to have developed conflict resolution skills and a horror of internal conflict that help support harmonious civil–military relations.

"The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan offers a unique insiders' perspective on the political climate in the country, presenting the challenges established in boundaries of interaction between the state and its military. This book argues that the prospects of another military coup in Pakistan are minimal because of the military extending its presence in the civil arenas and thus discovering new avenues of concretising its hegemony. Based on primary data sources in the form of interviews with senior military personnel, civil bureaucrats and other relevant technocrats and using military and government publications to verify their claims, the author discusses the military's previous takeovers and future plans from a defense point of view. The book uncovers how the military has created a space and rationale for itself in non-defense sectors. Providing a first-hand account of why and how the military extends itself beyond proscribed fields of responsibility and their expected outcomes, the book also provides a theoretical context to the military's hegemonic status using literature on civil military relations in general and Pakistan in particular. The book uses Pakistan as a case study to show how civil military imbalances in the world over can be re-evaluated. It will be of interest to researchers studying political science, public policy, peace and security studies, governance and institutions, law and South Asian Studies"--

17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under temporary embargo. ; The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 was a presidential attempt at a self-coup. To make the case, this article reviews elements of the Capitol assault and the events leading up to it, in light of the key conceptual components of a self-coup, and how those compare to attributes of other kinds of attacks on governments. The Trump self-coup will then be compared and contrasted empirically to other self-coups perpetrated by leaders. It is found that what separates successful self-coups from those that fail is whether the military backs the undertaking. Thus, a section is included on US military behaviour in response to Trump's attempts to gain military adherence for his political actions. ; U.S. Government affiliation is unstated in article text.

Seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und der damit einhergehenden Neuausrichtung der Bundeswehr ist der Tod deutscher Soldaten im Einsatz eine zunehmende Realität. Doch wie steht die bundesrepublikanische Gesellschaft der Gefährdung ihrer Soldaten im Auslandseinsatz gegenüber und wie hoch schätzt sie dieses Risiko ein? Dieser in der Militärsoziologie als "Casualty-Faktor" bezeichnete Wert ist erstmals Gegenstand einer eingehenden Untersuchung. Nach einer Zusammenfassung des bisherigen Forschungsstandes und einer kulturhistorischen Betrachtung zum Soldatentod in Deutschland seit dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert wenden sich die Autoren der Bundeswehr zu. Von einem in Phnom Penh aus unbekannten Gründen erschossenen Sanitätsfeldwebel bis zu den Opfern eines Selbstmordanschlags in Kabul analysieren sie sechs Fallbeispiele aus den Einsätzen UNTAC, UNOMIG und ISAF I bis IV. Sie untersuchen jeweils die Reaktionen der politischen und militärischen Führung sowie die Medienberichterstattung in den einzelnen Fällen und vergleichen sie miteinander in ihrem zeitlichen Ablauf von 1993 bis 2003. Anschließend interpretieren sie ihre Ergebnisse

Preface -- Abbreviations -- Key figures in the Mayaguez Crisis -- Introduction -- Day one: Monday, May 12 -- Day two: Tuesday, May 13 -- Day three: Wednesday, May 14 -- Day four: Thursday, May 15 -- Critical crisis decisions -- Explaining decisions, behaviors and outcomes -- Refining the explanation: rationality, bureaucracy and beliefs -- Findings, issues, prescriptions -- Conclusion

There is a common desire to seek a proper equilibrium that will assure civilian superiority over the military and prevent the military's intervention in domestic affairs. This article addresses the unique situation in Israel during the Oslo process, in which the military was deeply involved in the political process and influenced the political echelon by its knowledge and persuasive argumentation, mostly in private intellectual encounters between the echelons. We show how the military led the civilian arm to make choices that eventually determined strategy. The military with its knowledge infrastructure was hegemonic in this encounter, its influence was significant, and civil control was weak or inefficient. The Discourse Space model used in this article provides complementary tools for describing and analyzing the encounter between the echelons. The model provides an appropriate examination of how this encounter was conducted and what outcomes it produced, at least for the Israeli case.

This book, first published in 1981, is a comprehensive examination of the main theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to the study of the military in modernising political systems, in socialist and non-socialist countries. It analyses civil-military relations in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and China, and in doing so sheds new light on the comparative politics and strategic affairs of the Cold War period.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1. Reconceptualising Military Hegemony: How the Dynamics of Civil-Military Relations Are Changing in Pakistan -- 2. The Strategic Evolution of the Pakistan Military as a Hegemon -- 3. Fauji Culture under a 'Development' Umbrella -- 4. Is there an 'Island of Excellence' in Pakistan? -- 5. Defence or 'Development': Frontier Works Organization: Thriving at the Crossroads of Civil Military Binaries -- 6. From Cornflakes to Cement: The Fauji Foundation: a Business Empire or Military Welfare? -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index.