Titlebook: Global Politics of Defense Reform; Thomas Bruneau (Distinguished Professor of Nationa Book 2008 Thomas Bruneau and Harold Trinkunas 2008 a

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Global Trends and Their Impact on Civil-Military Relationsf any one state to control. The current worldwide struggle against transnational terrorism since 9/11, the spread of democracy, the globalization of commerce and communications, and the implications of new technologies all have affected military organizations and their civilian counterparts profound

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Globalization and the Impact of Norms on Defense Restructuringtional environment, the many actors within the state pulled together and acted as one. Globalization and its proponents contest this aphorism at every level: They challenge the notion of distinct spheres of national and international policy; the idea of a state as a unitary actor; the idea that poli

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International Democracy Promotion and its Impact on Civil-Military Relationsve the group of democracies that emerged in the wake of Portugal’s transition in 1974 had an impact on one another, at least in terms of timing and proximity. The puzzle is that most of the literature on democratic transitions views the phenomenon of democratic transitions as inextricably linked to

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Democratic Consolidation in Chilean Civil-Military Relations: 1990–2005ons around the world as societies demand that the armed forces meet liberal democratic standards. Most of the ideas about how democratization really affects civil-military relations, however, were crafted early in the so-called Third Wave of democratization. Decades later, it is legitimate to questi

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Preserving Autonomy In Conflict: Civil-Military Relations In Colombia there nevertheless is a case to be made for Colombian exceptionalism—the persistence of internal dynamics in Colombia’s case—for at least three reasons: first, unlike many of its neighbors, democracy is not an alien concept belatedly grafted onto an authoritarian political culture. On the contrary,

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“From National, Through Regional, to Universal. …”: Security and Defense Reform in Romaniaitutions. Before 1989, Romania was considered a “maverick” Communist country, a member of the Warsaw Pact ruled by one of the fiercest dictatorial regimes in Eastern Europe. The regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu promulgated a well-defined defense doctrine grounded in “the struggle of the entire

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Global Determinants of Defense Restructuring: The Case of the United Statesdefense functions in a stable democracy like the United States occur within the country’s federal framework of governance. When global factors influence defense reform, it is important to gauge how these factors affect the nature of the reform undertaken and achieved. Reform of the U.S. military’s i

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