Military Defection During Localized Protests: The Case of Tataouine

Grewal, Sharan

doi:10.1093/isq/sqz003

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“…Divergent providers of training may lead to divergent outcomes, even when the trainers are allies. Grewal (2019) , for example, has found that Tunisian officers differ in their attitudes about civil–military relations depending on whether they trained in the United States or in France. The USA frequently works through private military companies whose role merits further research, as do regional powers such as Turkey and the Gulf states who are actively training partners in places like Somalia and Libya.…”

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Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

McLauchlin

Seymour

Martel

2022

Journal of Peace Research

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Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as well as changing patterns over time, this project provides a new, global dataset of US foreign military training. This article describes the scope of the data along with the variables collected, coding procedures, and spatial and temporal patterns. We demonstrate the added value of the data in their much greater coverage of training activities, showing differences from both existing datasets and aggregate foreign military aid data. Reanalyzing prior research findings linking US foreign military training to the risk of coups d’état in recipient states, we find that this effect is limited to a single US program representing a small fraction of overall US training activities. The data show comprehensively how the United States attempts to influence partner military forces in a wide variety of ways and suggest new avenues of research.

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Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

McLauchlin

Seymour

Martel

2022

Journal of Peace Research

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“…These actors have been navigating a turbulent post-authoritarian transition period, leading to the establishment of a party system and founding elections in 2011 but also challenges emanating from an economy in crisis and security threats in the country’s border regions (Grewal 2019). Economic hardship and electoral defeat have led to disillusionment within parts of the population (Grewal and Monroe 2019), resulting in protracted protest politics and volatile voting patterns in subsequent electoral rounds in 2014 and 2019.…”

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“…the military establishment does not have beneficial ownership of any commercial businesses generating financial revenues of a significant scale, and there was no evidence found of off-budget military expenses.” The Tunisian military has largely stayed on the sidelines in political debates and institutional processes, and therefore appears as a “hard case” to study prospects of, and preferences for, military role expansion. While military units have been deployed to meet Islamist terrorist threats across the country and unrest in the southern border region (Grewal 2019), the armed forces have not been active in domestic policing on a wide scale.…”

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Role Model or Role Expansion? Popular Perceptions of the Military in Tunisia

Albrecht

Bufano

Koehler

2021

Political Research Quarterly

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This article introduces a theory on military role expansion in emerging democracies and poses a broad question: who wants the military to adopt which role in society and politics? Drawing on an original, nationally representative survey conducted in Tunisia, the article explores people’s preferences for the military to remain a security provider or serve in government and contribute to policing protests. Findings reveal that public support for military role expansion is substantial and varies across political cleavages. We test hypotheses to account for cleavages driven by the country’s authoritarian past versus partisan divides during Tunisia’s transition to democracy. Findings indicate that popular support for military role expansion is driven by anti-system sentiments prevalent in contemporary Tunisian politics: while voters prefer the military as a role model for security provision, non-voters support its enhanced role in politics. These observations have ample implications for the research programs on civil–military relations and the dynamics of democratic consolidation. Tunisia’s experience warrants greater attention to anti-system attitudes caused by people’s disillusionment with democratic procedures. In turn, authoritarian legacies do not appear to play a prominent role during such challenging transitions toward democratic consolidation.

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“…Around the same time in Southern Tunisia, military officers refused their president’s direct order to use violence to stop protestors of an oil production plant (Grewal, 2019). 1 The president justified the use of the military as a way to protect natural resources (Amara, 2017).…”

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“…Instead of following orders, the military allowed protestors to shut down the plant (Meddeb, 2015). Some soldiers even celebrated alongside the protestors (Grewal, 2019).…”

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Civil–Military Relations and Human Rights

Bell

Clay

Kiyani

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Armed Forces & Society

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Do civil–military relations influence human rights practices? Building on principal–agent theory, we argue that civilian–military relations, instead of having an effect on mean levels of repression, will be associated with the dispersion in human rights practices. States where there is less control of the military or more conflict between civilian and military leadership will see a wider range of human rights practices. We test our hypotheses quantitatively on a global sample of countries, using updated data on civil–military relations and find evidence that civil–military conflict and lack of control increase the variance in human right practices.

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Military Defection During Localized Protests: The Case of Tataouine

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

Role Model or Role Expansion? Popular Perceptions of the Military in Tunisia

Civil–Military Relations and Human Rights

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