Qualitative scholars exhibit a wide range of views on and approaches to causality. While
some approaches reject causality from the outset, a large strand of qualitative research in …

Does military conscription reduce the distance between the ordinary citizen and the state?
Decades after its abolition, numerous European policy makers from across the political …

Academic research on civil-military relations often assumes that dangers for democracy and
civilian control mainly emanate from the military's predisposition of 'pushing'its way into …

Why are Latin American politicians drawing the armed forces into politics and public
security? What consequences does this democratically controlled re‐militarisation have for …

Proponents claim that US military training diffuses norms of democracy and civilian control
into foreign militaries. I argue that foreign trainees are likely to absorb the United States' …

Most countries deployed their military in some capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
We present original data on early pandemic-related deployments, identifying seven types of …

This article provides a comprehensive framework that scholars can use to assess civilian
efforts to politicize the military in democratic regimes. Extending existing research, I develop …

Terrorists aim at influencing audiences beyond their immediate victims, but can only achieve
this if an attack receives sufficient public attention. Previous research shows that terrorism …

How do militaries push back when they oppose civilian initiatives? This article analyses the
sources and character of military dissent, focusing on the United States. It details the sources …

Natural disasters create a fertile environment for terrorists by creating or exacerbating
vulnerabilities within a state. Previous research has found mixed evidence regarding the …