Civil-military Relationship: Now and Then
A Civil–military relation describes the relationship between civil society as a whole and the military organization established to protect it. More narrowly, it describes the relationship between the civil authority of a given society and its military authority. Studies of civil-military relations often rest on a normative assumption that civilian control of the military is preferable to military control of the state. The principal problem they examine, however, is empirical: to explain how civilian control over the military is established and maintained. Civil-military relations are those interactions between the military and civilian actors that in some way relate to the power to make political decisions. Traditionally, the study of civil-military relations levitated around questions of who is master and who is servant in civil-military relations and who “guards the guardians” of the nation. In other words: the question of civilian control is at the heart of civil-military relations. Even though in recent years, especially with the fall of the Berlin Wall, democratization processes in eastern Europe, the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the proliferation of peace-building missions and programs in so-called post-conflict societies, the concept of security sector governance or security sector reform has gained prominence in the academic and policy-oriented literature, civilian control remains the central issue in civil-military relations in emerging democracies. The book deeply highlights the civil-military relation and its strategies.
- Pages: 320
- 9789386367525 • HARDBACK • Feb 2017 • Rs.1495
- Subjects: Civil Military Relation across the World
- Civil-military Relationship: Now and Then
author detailsThe author is an Independent researcher on subjects related to Geopolitics
Preface,
Civil–military Relations;
Use of Force and Civil–military Relations;
Trends in Civil-Military Relations;
Comparative Look at Civil-Military Relations;
Civilian Control of the Military;
Civil-Military Relations: A Peacebuilding Issue;
Civil Military Relations in Nepal and India;
Civil-Military Relations in Latin America;
Civilian Supremacy or Military Domination;
Civil-Military Relations in China;
Civil-Military Coordination Practices;
Humanitarian Principles and Civil Military Relation;
Civilian and Military Structures in the Field of Defence;
Civilian-military Relations in Consolidated Democracy;
Civil-Military Cooperation;
Syria: Civil-military Relations during Civil War,
Bibliography,
Index
