| ID | 120306 |
| Title Proper | Changing norms of civil and military and civil-military relations theory |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Angstrom, Jan |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The dichotomy between civil and military is well-established in international political practice. International law, international order, and war are but some of the institutions that rely upon making a distinction between civil and military. The distinction, arguably, is also central for analyses of conflicts worldwide. Almost daily, we are fed stories of atrocities against civilians in conflict-ridden parts of the world. In academic discourse, similarly, several fields of study including most of the debate centering on interpreting modern war relies upon a distinction between civil and military. Both research and practice, however, tend to treat these categories as fixed and global. In this article, I argue - to the contrary - that what constitutes civil and military are malleable norms. This forms a particular challenge to analyses of civil-military relations and it calls for a different categorization of civil-military relations in Weberian ideal types. |
| `In' analytical Note | Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol. 24, No.2; May 2013: p.224-236 |
| Journal Source | Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol. 24, No.2; May 2013: p.224-236 |
| Key Words | Afghanistan ; Civil - Military Relations ; Civilian Domain ; Giap ; Ideal - Type Categorization ; Iraq ; Mazar - e - Sharif ; Vietnam War ; Civil – Military Relations |