How Biden’s Pick for Defense Secretary Might Shake Up Civil-Military Relations
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
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d’Ivoire
Guest post by Rebecca Schiel and Christopher Faulkner. On May 12th, 2017, disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny in…
Trump’s Transactional Diplomacy: A Primer
By Marina Henke. Many pundits have suggested that President Trump thinks of diplomacy in transactional terms. Taking in…
Trump’s Cabinet and Bringing Civil-Military Relations Back In
By Lionel Beehner, Peter White, and Michael Kenwick. Trump’s tapping of high-ranking generals for positions traditionally allocated to civilians…
Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Trump
By Steve Saideman. With the likely (Trump as “uncertainty engine” raises doubts about his own statements) appointment of…
“Strength” and the Civil-Military Language Gap
By Kyleanne Hunter for Denver Dialogues. Introduction by Deborah Avant In an earlier post, Sarah Bakhtiari wrote of…
Four Trends That Could Put the Democratic Peace at Risk
By Philip B.K. Potter. Political scientists generally agree that democracies have a foreign policy advantage, particularly when it comes…
Getting the Military and Social Scientists Back Together: The Need for “Expeditionary Social Science”
Guest post by Jonathan Bate. The military and the academy need each other, at least when it comes…
Of Methodology and Men
By Kyleanne Hunter for Denver Dialogues With headlines like these: “Marine Study Finds All-Male Infantry Units Outperformed Teams…