Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment

Author:   Steven Ratuva ,  Radomir Compel ,  Sergio Aguilar
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9789811320071


Pages:   439
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Format:   Hardback
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This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of  the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and South American regions. The book is interdisciplinary and covers wide-ranging issues relating to civil military relations, democratization, regional security, ethnicity, peace-building and peace keeping, civilian oversight, internal repression, gender, regime change and civil society. 

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Author:   Steven Ratuva ,  Radomir Compel ,  Sergio Aguilar
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.724kg
ISBN:  

9789811320071


ISBN 10:   9811320071
Pages:   439
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction.2. Multi-faceted dilemmas: Politics and the changing dynamics of civil-military relations—a global synopsis.3. Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, reserved domains and rollback: The deracination of Egypt's Arab Spring.4. The distribution of domestic political power within democracies and civil-military relations: The case of post-1789 France.5. Political culture and institutions-building impacting civil military relations in Bangladesh?.6. The executive and the military in post-apartheid South Africa.7. Moving towards a more Multi-ethnic Fiji Military Forces.8. The military and security in the Pacific Islands past and present.9. Order, chaos and democracy: the 2014 military coup in Thailand.10. The problem relating to the modernisation of the South African National Defence Force and its external role: From defence review 1998 to defence review 2015.11. The Changing Role of the Military in Chinese Politics.12. Rethinking the second wave.13. The role of the military and police in RAMSI.14. European Union military operations: the use of force in Chad, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo.15. Soldiers, rebels and the overlords.16. Terminating terrorism with negotiations: A divided path towards progress.17. Can military be entrusted the role of police?.18. Gendered violence against civilian males: A case study using the Bougainville conflict.19. NGO-military interaction as a mechanism of democratic civilian control.20. United States risk management in the Post-War Iraq: Encountering societal risks.21. Protego ergo obligo? The Sovereignty paradox in the responsibility to protect doctrine.22. Some concluding remarks: The future of civil-military relations. 

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Steven Ratuva, a political sociologist, is director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and professor in the department of anthropology and sociology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has worked in a number of universities and was recently Fulbright professor at University of California (LA), Duke University and Georgetown University. He is an inter-disciplinary scholar who has published widely on security, conflict, military, elections, development, affirmative action, ethnicity, nationalism, social protection and culture, including as editor-in-chief of the Palgrave Global Handbook on Ethnicity.      Radomir Compel is associate professor of comparative politics at Nagasaki University. He is the co-author of Hito to Kaiyo no Kyosei wo Mezashite VI (2013), Ashida Hitoshi Nikki 1905-1945 V(2012), and has published articles on wartime and post-war Okinawa and Japanese – American relations. He obtained Ph.D. from Yokohama National University, and previously taught at a number of universities including Hosei University, and Nihon University.  Sergio Aguilar has a PhD in history and is Associated Professor in International Security at São Paulo State University (UNESP) – Brazil. He was visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and  has published widely on security, conflict, and peacekeeping operations.

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