Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment
Editors: Ratuva, Steven, Compel, Radomir, Aguilar, Sergio (Eds.)
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- Includes comparative analyses on Asia, Pacific, South America and Africa
- Takes a multi-disciplinary approach accessible to security practitioners, policy thinkers, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Guns and Roses: The Nexus Between the Military and Citizenry in the New Security Environment
Pages 1-13
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Multi-faceted Dilemmas: Politics and the Changing Dynamics of Civil–Military Relations—A Global Synopsis
Pages 15-38
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Popular Revolt and Military Intransigence in Egypt
Pages 39-51
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Military Coups d’état and the Distribution of Domestic Institutional Political Power Within Democracies: The Case of Post-1789 France
Pages 53-73
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Political Culture and Institution-Building Impacting Civil–Military Relations (CMR) in Bangladesh
Pages 75-96
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment
- Editors
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- Steven Ratuva
- Radomir Compel
- Sergio Aguilar
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-2008-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-2008-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-2007-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 439
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations
- Topics