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Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment

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  • Focuses on militarization and citizenry, an often understudied area of study

  • Includes comparative analyses on Asia, Pacific, South America and Africa

  • Takes a multi-disciplinary approach accessible to security practitioners, policy thinkers, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

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About this book

This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of  the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and South American regions. The book is interdisciplinary and covers wide-ranging issues relating to civil military relations, democratization, regional security, ethnicity, peace-building and peace keeping, civilian oversight, internal repression, gender, regime change and civil society. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Steven Ratuva

  • School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Radomir Compel

  • Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências, Sao Paulo State University, Marília, Brazil

    Sergio Aguilar

About the editors

Steven Ratuva, a political sociologist, is director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and professor in the department of anthropology and sociology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has worked in a number of universities and was recently Fulbright professor at University of California (LA), Duke University and Georgetown University. He is an inter-disciplinary scholar who has published widely on security, conflict, military, elections, development, affirmative action, ethnicity, nationalism, social protection and culture, including as editor-in-chief of the Palgrave Global Handbook on Ethnicity.     

Radomir Compel is associate professor of comparative politics at Nagasaki University. He is the co-author of Hito to Kaiyo no Kyosei wo Mezashite VI (2013), Ashida Hitoshi Nikki 1905-1945 V(2012), and has published articles on wartime and post-war Okinawa and Japanese – American relations. He obtained Ph.D. from Yokohama National University, and previously taught at a number of universities including Hosei University, and Nihon University. 



Sergio Aguilar has a PhD in history and is Associated Professor in International Security at São Paulo State University (UNESP) – Brazil. He was visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and  has published widely on security, conflict, and peacekeeping operations.


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