Civil–Military Relationships in Developing Countries

Dhirendra Vajpeyi is professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa. He is editor of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security: A Comparative Analysis and Water Resource Conflict and International Security: A Global Perspective.Glen Segell is lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and scientist at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel-Aviv.

This book deals directly with some of the most intractable civil–military relations of our time and does so with a very clear and helpful ‘debate’ format in which each expert chapter is followed by editors’ notes. Glen Segell’s typology of the possible political outcomes of the broad phenomenon now known as the ‘Arab Spring’ is both perceptive and very effective. He sheds important light upon the requisites of democracy in the twenty-first century and the political options that stem from particular patterns of civil-military relations. Dhirendra Vajpeyi’s analysis of the profoundly different systems in Pakistan and India sheds new light on those confusing conundra. Orlando Perez brings his extensive expertise to bear on the Central American countries, incorporating Alfred Stepan’s concept of ‘military prerogatives’ to enhance our understanding of civil–military relations, and hence democracy, in these complex cases. Additional chapters by an impressive list of authors on Central American, Chinese, Indonesian, Nigerian, and Botswanan civil–military relations reinforce the impression that this book is a major contribution to civil–military relations, and thus to the often overlooked prerequisites to democracy, the dominant, but by no means permanently assured, political pattern of our age.

• List of Figures and TablesPrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionDhirendra K. VajpeyiGlen SegellChapter 2: Civil–Military Relations and the Arab SpringGlen SegellChapter 3: Civil–Military Relations in India and Pakistan: Genesis of Two Models in South AsiaDhirendra K. VajpeyiChapter 4: Bringing Back Maoism: Civil-Military Relations in a Period of Weakening Civilian Authority in ChinaYoram EvronChapter 5: Reforming the Indonesian ArmyMary Jo HalderChapter 6: Terrorism, International Military Deployment and Civil–Military Relations in NigeriaPita O. AgbeseChapter 7: The Trajectory of Civil–Military Relations In BotswanaMpho G. MolomoChapter 8: ConclusionDhirendra K. VajpeyiGlen SegellSelected Bibliography