By Rebecca L. Schiff
The intervention of the army in nationwide politics and the typical lives of voters is a key query in civil-military family. This publication explains how concordance conception offers a version for predicting such household intervention. types facing the connection among the army and society are typically in keeping with Western countries with energy and impression, and accordingly is probably not acceptable for the situations of non-Western international locations. against this, concordance thought considers nationwide contexts the place the stability of army involvement in civilian lifestyles relies drastically on ancient conditions, institutional nuances, and cultural realities. utilizing 5 case reviews - India, Pakistan, Israel, Argentina, and Post-Revolutionary the United States - this publication demanding situations conventional perspectives at the position of the army in society, and provides convincing examples for the continuous program of concordance concept. It additionally explores the evolution of the speculation from the sector of army experiences to 1 of ‘corporate concordance’. This e-book could be of a lot curiosity to complex scholars of Civil-Military family, army sociology, political technology and US politics.
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Thus, even democracies, according to Lasswell, “can exhibit totalitarian 30 Civil–military relations features that emanate from elite government officials” (Lasswell 1952: 125, 136). The use of Nazi Germany as the prototypical garrison state, as well as Lasswell’s ambiguity concerning its democratic counterpart, makes it difficult to apply Lasswell’s theory to nations lacking harshly repressive domestic regimes. Moreover, Lasswell does not consider the possibility of a garrison state that is unique to democratic nations – an altered form that may not involve political elites using highly repressive means of domestic coercion.
It assumes that to prevent domestic military intervention, the post-World War II US or Western-styled institutional separation should be applied to all nations. This book argues that the US case is grounded in a particular historical and cultural experience and may not be applicable to other nations. Concordance theory considers the unique historical conditions and cultural experiences of nations and the various other possibilities for civil–military relations, which may be different from the US and Western examples.
The four concordance indicators offer a 40 Concordance theory more comprehensive prediction and explanation than the old theory for the role of the Indian military in partnership with the civilian elites and society at large. Therefore, presupposing that militaries are coercive or noncoercive institutions is not useful. Providing a framework that enables the scholar to conduct responsible research, both institutionally and culturally, is far more beneficial to the study of particular national contexts.
