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Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance

Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan

Cornelia Baciu author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:2nd Mar '21

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This book investigates the relationship between international security governance, democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and relative gains, in norms formation in hybrid orders.

Highlighting caveats of the legacy of Huntington’s paradigm of military professionalism, the book applies a robust methodology and data collected in four sample regions in Pakistan. It gauges the effects of international and local actors’ support in the Security Sector Reform domain and examines instances of civil-military interactions and military transition. The book also analyses determinants and strategies that can influence them to demonstrate the impact of global governance in norms diffusion, as well as of absolute and relative utility gains and incentives in normative change. The author generates a new theory pertaining to international organisations and actors as determinants of transformation processes and consequently sheds new light on the issue of global security governance, especially its impact on civil-military relations and democratisation in hybrid orders.

The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the field of global governance, civil-military relations, grand strategy and foreign policy as well as Asian politics, South Asian studies, peace, security and strategic studies, International Relations and political science in more general.

This book is a valuable contribution to the renaissance in civil-military relations scholarship. Baciu takes her place among a new generation of specialists who are refining the concepts and expanding the empirical domain that undergird our understanding of what makes for effective civilian control. She shows that traditional approaches to security sector reform by outsiders like the EU have had mixed results in Pakistan and suggests that an approach more focused on civilian development and empowerment might work better."

Peter D. Feaver, Duke University, USA

ISBN: 9780367647582

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 449g

198 pages