Overview

People tend to think of civil-military relationships in binary terms. Either the military takes its orders from its usually civilian government leaders without any resistance or the military calls the governmental shots by taking over the government when it is displeased with civilian behavior. Reality, of course, is much different. There is an incredible variety of civil-military relationships around the globe, ranging between the continuum end points of full obedience to governmental authority and military coups d'etat. It is ordinarily difficult to tap into that variety easily because edited collections of country studies are constrained by space limitations to covering a handful of representative or interesting political systems. That constraint often leads to focusing on a few well known cases - normally, ones involving intermittent military rule. Other examinations limit themselves to more in-depth analysis of single cases. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics is the first of its kind in the sense that it contains 92 chapters encompassing roughly a hundred cases examining the evolution of civil-military relationships over time. Approximately half of the cases encompass states in which the military more or less accepts political subordination. In the other half, they either have refused to be subordinated or become politically insubordinate intermittently. Authors were recruited from around the world to address these issues from a variety of perspectives. In addition, another 32 chapters examine topical questions such as what factors encourage military coups, what are the consequences of military rule, how do the military vote, or whether military expenditures boost economic growth.

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Author:   William R. Thompson (Distinguished and Rogers Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Distinguished and Rogers Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington) ,  Hicham Bou Nassif
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 27.40cm , Height: 14.00cm , Length: 20.80cm
Weight:   4.921kg
ISBN:  

9780190921514

ISBN 10:   019092151
Pages:   2880
Publication Date:   05 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"A Afghanistan: Martial Society Without Military Rule (Amin Tarzi) Albania: Civil-Military Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (Gerassimos Karabelias) Algeria: Military Past as Prologue (Paul E. Lenze, Jr.) Arab Gulf States: Expanding Roles for the Military (Eleonora Ardemagni) Argentina: The Journey from Military Intervention to Subordination (David Pion-Berlin) Armies in Politics: The Domestic Determinants of Military Coup Behavior (Ekim Arbatli) Australia: Expanding and Applying the Field of Civil-Military Relations (Ben Wadham and Willem de Lint) B Bahrain: The Army and the Dynamics of State-Society Relations (Laurence Louër) The Bangladesh Army: What It Costs to Remain Apolitical (Smruti S. Pattanaik) Benin and Togo: Loyalist Stacking and Rival Security Forces (Julien Morency-Laflamme) Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unifying Armed Forces in a Divided State (Danijela Dudley) Botswana: The Evolution and Influence of the Military in Politics (David Sebudubudu) Burkina Faso: Military Responses to Popular Pressures (Daniel Eizenga) Burundi: Assessing Military Institutional Reforms Post-Arusha (Astrid Jamar and Gerard Birantamije) C Cambodia: Armed Forces Under Personalized Control (Paul W. Chambers) Cameroon: The Military and Autocratic Stability (Kristen A. Harkness) Canada: Very ""Civil"" Military Relations (Joel J. Sokolsky) Central African Republic: Coups, Mutinies, and Civil War (Timothy Stapleton) Chad: Armed Presidents and Politics (Ketil Hansen) Chile: Military and Politics in the 20th Century (Brian Loveman) China: Party-Army Relations Past and Present (Sofia K. Ledberg)"

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William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Rogers Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has been an Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Quarterly and a President of the International Studies Association. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics and the author or editor of roughly 40 books. Hicham Bou Nassif is an Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He has published several articles on military politics. His first book, Endgames, probes the armed forces' reaction to the 2011 Arab uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

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