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Civil-Military Relations

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How Biden’s Pick for Defense Secretary Might Shake Up Civil-Military Relations

  • December 8, 2020
On Tuesday, sources confirmed that President-elect Joe Biden’s nominations for the cabinet would include retired Army general Lloyd…
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Conflict, Generations, and Long-term Change in Civil-Military Relations

  • July 19, 2017
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
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Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d’Ivoire

  • June 9, 2017
Guest post by Rebecca Schiel and Christopher Faulkner. On May 12th, 2017, disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny in…
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Trump’s Transactional Diplomacy: A Primer

  • February 8, 2017
By Marina Henke.  Many pundits have suggested that President Trump thinks of diplomacy in transactional terms. Taking in…
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Trump’s Cabinet and Bringing Civil-Military Relations Back In

  • December 16, 2016
By Lionel Beehner, Peter White, and Michael Kenwick. Trump’s tapping of high-ranking generals for positions traditionally allocated to civilians…
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Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Trump

  • December 8, 2016
By Steve Saideman. With the likely (Trump as “uncertainty engine” raises doubts about his own statements) appointment of…
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“Strength” and the Civil-Military Language Gap

  • November 1, 2016
By Kyleanne Hunter for Denver Dialogues. Introduction by Deborah Avant In an earlier post, Sarah Bakhtiari wrote of…
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Four Trends That Could Put the Democratic Peace at Risk

  • October 14, 2016
By Philip B.K. Potter. Political scientists generally agree that democracies have a foreign policy advantage, particularly when it comes…
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Getting the Military and Social Scientists Back Together: The Need for “Expeditionary Social Science”

  • September 29, 2016
Guest post by Jonathan Bate. The military and the academy need each other, at least when it comes…
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Of Methodology and Men

  • October 6, 2015
By Kyleanne Hunter for Denver Dialogues With headlines like these: “Marine Study Finds All-Male Infantry Units Outperformed Teams…
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Political Violence @ A Glance is an award-winning online magazine directed by Erica Chenoweth, Christian Davenport, Barbara F. Walter, and Joe Young, that answers questions on the most pressing problems related to violence and protest in the world’s conflict zones. Our goal is to use rigorous research, and simple, straight-forward analysis, to improve policies and practices in ways that help reduce conflict and build lasting peace.

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Political Violence @ a Glance is an online magazine directed by Erica Chenoweth, Christian Davenport, Barbara Walter and Joe Young, that answers questions on the most pressing problems related to violence and protest in the world’s conflict zones. Political Violence @ A Glance is supported by the UC Institute of Global Conflict & Cooperation, a University of California think tank specializing in research, training, and policy engagement around issues related to international security, economic development, political violence and its antecedents, and peace building.