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Using Israel as a case study, this article endeavors to account for the intriguing sociopolitical phenomenon that military coups and military regimes are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war but because the society is militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, hypothesizing an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of Israel from its establishment until the present day, its depiction as a nation-in-arms, and its comparison with other nations-in-arms that have also experienced nonpraetorian militarism.

The article endeavours to account for the intriguing socio-political phenomenon, illustrated by the case of Israel, that military coups (or praetorianism) are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war, but because the society is culturally militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, which hypothesizes an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of the Israeli state from its foundation up until the present day. During that period, the depiction of the Israeli nation-in-arms has been embodied by non-praetorian militarism. ; The article endeavours to account for the intriguing socio-political phenomenon, illustrated by the case of Israel, that military coups (or praetorianism) are thwarted not because of the resilience of democratic institutions and the absence of war, but because the society is culturally militaristic and is in a protracted state of war. This argument, which hypothesizes an inverse relationship between militarism and praetorianism, is based on an examination of the Israeli state from its foundation up until the present day. During that period, the depiction of the Israeli nation-in-arms has been embodied by non-praetorian militarism.

Military forces have had many important roles in political life in Southeast Asia where the military has a full power or major role and influence in the domestic politics. These forms of military intervention in domestic politics are called praetorianism, which is characterized by the military being more inclined to take care of domestic political affairs rather than carrying out its professional duties as guardians of sovereignty from external threats. We can find this practice from seeing the New Order regime in Indonesia to the Military Junta of Myanmar and Thailand. This paper aims to analyze what factors are the background of the widespread practice of praetorianism and how the practice can last for a certain period of time, even still to this day in Southeast Asia. The main argument is the weak political institutions and the low political culture of developing country are the main causes of various intervention efforts made by the armed forces in the domestic political realm of a country.

"Madagascar: The Military in Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.

This essay reconsiders not so much the forms taken by the cult of Bolivar within its official expression as the way it became a theory for thought and political action in the long term. We will consider civil-military relations –the cornerstone of Hugo Chávez' Bolivarian Project– the representations linked to Bolivarian ideology both inside and outside the academic world, and finally the recent and biased memorial rewriting of the present day in Venezuela. ; Este ensayo reconsidera no tanto las modalidades del culto a Bolívar en su vertiente oficialista sino la manera como se convirtió en teoría para el pensamiento y la acción política en el tiempo largo. Con este fin, insistiremos en la problemática de las relaciones cívico- militares, piedra de toque del proyecto bolivariano de Hugo Chávez. Asimismo contemplaremos las representaciones ligadas al ideario bolivariano tanto dentro como fuera del mundo académico y del gremio de los historiadores, incluyendo las recientes y tendenciosas reescrituras memoriales del tiempo presente venezolano.

Turkey's quest for EU accession is considered in terms of the relative decline of praetorianism, weakening public support for EU membership, & the state's effort to redefine itself at the regional & international levels. D. Edelman