Civil-Military Relations

Christopher Ankersen is Adjunct/Sessional instructor at Royal Military College, LSE, King’s College London, Carleton University, Royal Roads University, London Centre for International Relations. He is author/editor of The Politics of Civil-Military Cooperation (2014), Civil-Military Cooperation in Post-Conflict Operations (Routledge, 2007), and Understanding Global Terrorism (2007).

• 1. IntroductionPART I: Armed Forces and the State2. The Relationship Between Armed Force and the Development of the Modern State3. The Relationship Between Political Objective and Armed Force PART II: Theories of Civil-Military Relations4. First Generation Theories of Civil-Military Relations: Control 5. Alternate Theories of Civil-Military Relations: Management 6. Second Generation Theories on Civil-Military Relations: Governance PART III: Socio-Cultural Understandings of Civil-Military Relations7. Armed Forces and Society 8. Strategic CulturePART IV: Civil Military Relations in Practice9. The United States: The Post-Cold War ‘Gap’ Crises 10. The UK: The Covenant and the Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 11. China and India: Inscrutable Dragon vs Waking Tiger 12. Canada and Denmark: Civil Military Relations in so-called ‘Warless States’ 13. Myanmar and Thailand: Military Rule in 21st Century Southeast Asia 14. South Africa and Nigeria: Harnessing military power 15. Japan and Germany: Civil Military Relations and the Shadows of 1945 16. Egypt and Israel: Very different neighbours 17. Argentina and Venezuela: Two roads diverging PART V: Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Risk18. Civil-Military Relations and the War on Terror 19. Warriors and Weapon systems: Whither the hero? 20. Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Risk