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Guardians or oppressors : civil-military relations and democratisation in the Mediterranean Region / edited by Amany Salaheldin Soliman and Gülçin Balamir Coşkun ; contributors, Bezen Balamir Coşkun [and six others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil-military relations--Mediterranean Region.
- Civil-military relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book investigates an important phenomenon in the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, namely the role that the military plays in the governments of several states of the region. Can military forces be defined as guardians of a regime in a democratic state? How is it possible to limit the power of armies to solely military prerogatives and competences? How can the intervention of military forces in the political arena in democratising countries be prevented? It is easy to ask these questions, but finding answers is more difficult. Using historical events and theories as examples to follow is an even more complicated task. What happened after the Arab Spring has demonstrated again how civil-military relations constitute an important pillar of the democratisation process. The contributors to this book develop and analyse the reasons why militaries in the Middle East and the Mediterranean wished to obtain a guardianship role and the methods they used to achieve and maintain it. The book also investigates how these militaries reacted to democratisation in their respective countries, and begins with a conceptual framework followed by examples from Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Iran. This work provides a multi-faceted understanding of the historical, political, social and economic layers of complicated civil-military relations in one of the world's most unstable regions.
- Contents:
- ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 18, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 909854659
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