This study applies a comparative analysis of loyalty shifts in the armed forces during popular
uprisings for regime change in authoritarian states in the period of 1990-2012. The …

The study examines the dynamics behind the disloyal behavior of the armed forces in cases
of the formation of social movements for regime change. The study adopts a theoretical …

This thesis is a comparative analysis of the concept of military loyalty in the armies of Greek
city-states and Hellenistic kingdoms, combining ancient evidence with the use of modern …

Two common strategies for maintaining military loyalty—individual incentives and ethnic
preference—produce very different outcomes for defection of government troops when a …

One of the main debates in the study of authoritarianism concerns whether autocrats
promote and reward agents based on performance or ideological loyalty to stave off the …

This mixed-methods dissertation investigates the countries of the Coalition of the Willing in
Iraq (2003-2009) to identify the determinants of defection and of fluctuation in troop …

One important question in authoritarian politics is why there exists great variation in the
intensity of state repression in autocracies. Why are some bureaucrats more heavy-handed …

Control of the military by the political leadership is a crucial prerequisite for the stability of
any political regime. However, in authoritarian regimes this “civil-military problematique” …

Scholars have widely adopted the view that the behaviour of the Tunisian military during the
'Arab Spring'constitutes a positive case of military defection. This paper argues that, contrary …

Several countries recruit foreign nationals into their armed forces. This is despite the norm of
citizen armies and the strong idea that individuals join the military to defend their home …