Introduction

Croissant, Aurel; Kuehn, David

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“…Although national defense formally remains the primary function of the armed forces and the depth of their involvement in political and civilian affairs varies among individual countries, many Asian militaries took on a multitude of secondary roles, engaging in commercial activities, local administration, social development and civic action projects, and putting down internal insurrections. 56 The most obvious common feature of these real, versus rhetorical, roles and missions is that there is no easy way to declare victory; no way to demonstrate military effectiveness. In combatting insurgents, with even the most successful and recent cases being Colombia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka there are long-term political reasons for these insurgencies, if and when negotiations begin they go on and on, there are set backs, and there are severe issues of foreign monitoring and meddling.…”

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A conceptual framework for the analysis of civil-military relations and intelligence

Bruneau

2018

Defense & Security Analysis

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The article argues that current conceptual approaches in civil-military relations are deeply flawed resulting in its irrelevance in analyzing major issues including war and the collapse of democracy. After highlighting major flaws in the work of the late Samuel Huntington and those who follow his approach, the article argues that other conceptual approaches, including Security Sector Reform, are also flawed, or in the case of the "military effectiveness" literature, largely irrelevant. In explaining the main causes of the flawed conceptual literature, the article highlights the absence of good data and challenges in methodology. While arguing that military forces are very unlikely to engage in armed combat, it highlights the roles and missions which in the world today are implanted by these forces. As it is virtually impossible to prove effectiveness of the armed forces in these roles and missions, the article proposes a conceptual approach based on requirements.

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A conceptual framework for the analysis of civil-military relations and intelligence

Bruneau

2018

Defense & Security Analysis

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“… 1. See, among others, Valenzuela, 1992; Bruneau and Croissant, 2010; Croissant et al, 2012; Croissant and Kuehn, 2015; Kuehn et al, 2016; Linz and Stepan, 2016.…”

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Brazil’s Stealth Military Intervention

Akkoyunlu

Lima

2021

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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Between 2016 and 2020, a group of activist generals successfully plotted the Brazilian military's gradual return to the political center stage with powers unseen since the dictatorship. They achieved this without formally breaking the law, suspending the democratic process or overthrowing the government. We call this a “stealth intervention,” an incremental yet systematic attempt to redesign politics without causing a rupture, that fits neither in the existing typology of coups nor in the literature on democratic backsliding. We argue that Brazil’ stealth intervention, built upon the military’s existing tutelary prerogatives and driven by an unreformed praetorian worldview that resurfaced amidst a sustained crisis of democracy, challenges the prevalent view of the armed forces as a reactive force that intervenes in civilian politics only when its institutional interests are threatened. Finally, we show that democratic backsliding in Brazil started under Bolsonaro’s predecessor, Michel Temer, and point to the generals’ understudied role in this process.

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The fulcrum of democratic civilian control: Re-imagining the role of defence ministries

Mukherjee

Pion-Berlin²

2022

Journal of Strategic Studies

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Introduction

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A conceptual framework for the analysis of civil-military relations and intelligence

A conceptual framework for the analysis of civil-military relations and intelligence

Brazil’s Stealth Military Intervention

The fulcrum of democratic civilian control: Re-imagining the role of defence ministries

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