▪ Abstract Who will guard the guardians? Political scientists since Plato have sought to
answer this, the central question of the civil-military relations subfield. Although civil-military …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

Previous studies have attested to leaders “coup-proofing” their regimes by reducing the
ability or disposition of their armies to seek their removal. The following article tests the utility …

The alleged crisis in American civil-military relations has revived a long-standing theoretical
debate about the determinants of civilian control. So far, the debate has followed lines of …

Although coup risk plays an important role in theories of war, revolution, and
democratization, scholars have not developed a rigorous conceptualization and valid …

Defending" la patria," or" homeland," is the historical mission claimed by Latin American
armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role …

First published in 1983, this extraordinary study provides a comprehensive systematic
evaluation of cross-national theorizing and quantitative empirical evidence on four …

First Published in 1998. The aim of this book is to examine the origins and conduct of
colonial warfare in Africa in the late nineteenth century, as far as possible from the …

We all have images of soldiering seared into our memories. Perhaps we visualize troops
firing at each other from World War I (WWI) trenches, allied forces storming the beaches of …

This article considers how domestic protests influence coups. Protests signal regime
illegitimacy, which incentivizes coups and provides a favorable climate for postcoup reforms …