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

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Security Environment ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Military Relations

Civil–Military Relations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mackubin Thomas Owens
Keyword(s):  
Civilian Control ◽  
Unified Field Theory ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Strategic Assessment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military

Civil–military relations is an interdisciplinary area of research, reflecting the work of political scientists, military, sociologists, and historians. History and culture, the constitution of the state and the statutes and practices arising therefrom, changes in the international security environment, technology, the character of conflict, and the changing concept of “soldier-hood” all influence the civil–military relations of a state. There are many possible patterns of civil–military relations that provide different answers to the questions of who controls the military and how, the degree of military influence appropriate for a given society, the appropriate role of the military in a given polity, who serves, and the effectiveness of the military instrument that a given civil–military relations produces. Moreover, there is no “general” or “unified field” theory that successfully explains all of these patterns. For a variety of reasons, Samuel Huntington's institutional theory remains the dominant paradigm for examining civil–military relations. When it comes to the question of civilian control of the military, Peter Feaver’s agency theory corrects some of the flaws in Huntington’s theory. Morris Janowitz and the military sociologists also provide useful insights, especially regarding the question of who serves and related issues. In the case of concordance theory, critics argue that the definition of military intervention sets the bar too low to be meaningful. Ultimately, the patterns of civil–military relations affect national security because of their impact on strategic assessment.

scholarly journals Resenha de: Ratuva, Steven, Radomir Compel, e Sergio Aguilar, 2019 (Orgs). Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment. Singapore: Springer Singapore.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamiris Pereira Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Security Environment ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Military Relations

Resenha da obra Guns Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment, lançada em 2019, com o objetivo de compilar as contribuições diversas trazidas ao longo da compilação em seu caráter panorâmico e de atualização das discussões sobre relações civil-militares no mundo. 

scholarly journals A versatile organisation: Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nina Wilén ◽  
Lisa Strömbom
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Collective Security ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Military Institution ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military ◽  
Comprehensive Mapping

Abstract What roles are military institutions expected to play in today's rapidly changing security environment? How are they supposed to interact with the society they are tasked to protect? These questions have been posed by classical military sociologists as well as by a newer generation of scholars. Yet so far, a comprehensive mapping of the military's potential roles in contemporary society is missing. In this article we contribute to an update of this debate by providing a categorisation of the different roles and tasks that the military institution plays in current industrialised democratic states. We identify three core roles, each divided into subroles, by drawing on an extensive reading of 70 National White Papers and Security Strategies from 37 OECD member states: (collective) defence, collective security, and aid to the nation. We analyse how these roles and tasks influence recent configurations in civil-military relations. This study thereby contributes with: (1) a useful illustration of the military's shifting roles and tasks in contemporary society; (2) increased understandings of how the different roles impact civil-military relations and related to this; and (3) a practical starting point for further analyses of the military organisation's internal challenges related to its, at times, contradictory roles.

The Sovereigns and Civil-Military Relations in Nigerian Fourth Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Nelson Goldpin Obah-Akpowoghaha ◽  
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Adegbite Simon Aboluwoye ◽  
Kelechi Johnmary Ani ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Fourth Republic ◽  
Military Relations

Civil Military Relation and Stabilization in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tughral Yamin
Keyword(s):  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Stabilization Process ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Salient Points ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military ◽  
Tribal Areas

The importance of civil military relations assumes seminal importance in ensuring the success of all phases of a counter insurgency campaign. In the true tradition of the Clausewitzian dictum that war is the continuation of policy and vice versa; Pakistan Army has been employed as a matter of policy in counter insurgency operations in the erstwhile tribal areas. They have also been used in the stabilization operations to bring about normality in the insurgency ridden areas. In fact the employment of Pakistan Army in the stabilization process defies any previous example in any other country. In all phases of the conflict cycle, the military has worked hand in glove with its civilian counterparts. The civil-military coordination (CIMIC) in the insurgency ridden areas has taken place within the framework of the established ground rules of an organized counter insurgency campaign. It would not be unfair to say that the return to normality in the erstwhile FATA has only been possible because of a well-knit CIMIC architecture. This paper briefly explicates the salient points of the CIMIC aspect of the counter and post-insurgency part of the operations in the conflict zones and highlights the importance of this aspect of dealing with insurgencies.

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