How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why (eBook)

Zoltan Barany (Autor)

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2016
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8099-7 (ISBN)

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Zoltan Barany is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Government at the University of Texas. His books include The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas and Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military (both Princeton).

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An exploration of military responses to revolutions and how to predict such reactions in the futureWe know that a revolution's success largely depends on the army's response to it. But can we predict the military's reaction to an uprising? How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why argues that it is possible to make a highly educated guess-and in some cases even a confident prediction-about the generals' response to a domestic revolt if we know enough about the army, the state it is supposed to serve, the society in which it exists, and the external environment that affects its actions. Through concise case studies of modern uprisings in Iran, China, Eastern Europe, Burma, and the Arab world, Zoltan Barany looks at the reasons for and the logic behind the variety of choices soldiers ultimately make.Barany offers tools-in the form of questions to be asked and answered-that enable analysts to provide the most informed assessment possible regarding an army's likely response to a revolution and, ultimately, the probable fate of the revolution itself. He examines such factors as the military's internal cohesion, the regime's treatment of its armed forces, and the size, composition, and nature of the demonstrations.How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why explains how generals decide to support or suppress domestic uprisings.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 6 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 8888 Uprising • activism • Ali Abdullah Saleh • Arab-majority states • Arab republics • arab spring • Armed Forces • Army • army response • autocracy • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini • Bahrain • Burma • Case study • Central Security Forces • China • Civil–military relations • Civil-Military Relations • civilЭilitary relations • communism • Communist Party of China • communist state • conscript army • Conscription • controlling unrest • Cornell University • coup d'état • czechoslovakia • Decision-Making • de facto • defection • Democratization • Deng Xiaoping • Dictatorship • domestic revolt • domestic uprising • Eastern Europe • East Germany • Egyptian Armed Forces • Election • Empirical Analysis • Employment • explanatory factors • External Environment • Foreign Intervention • Four Eight Uprising • fraternization • Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy • Hosni Mubarak • humiliation • iaf • Imperial Armed Forces • indoctrination • Institution • Insurgency • Intelligence agency • International Studies Association • Iran • Iranian military • Iranian Revolution • Islamic Revolution • Jack F. Matlock, Jr. • Jack Goldstone • junior officer • Kuala Lumpur • Legitimacy (political) • Manama • Martial Law • Middle East • Mikhail Gorbachev • Military • military aid • military cohesion • military decision-making • Military Dictatorship • military elite • military establishment • military occupation • Military organization • Military personnel • military regimes • military response • Military Service • modern history • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi • Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi • Muammar Gaddafi • Myanmar • national security • Ne Win • North Africa • North Korea • Officer (armed forces) • Party leader • People Power Uprising • Phnom Penh • police state • political dynamics • Political prisoner • Political Science • political upheavals • Politician • Politics • popular uprisings • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Protest • Protests • Radicalism (historical) • Rebellion • Regime • regime change • regime coercion • regime legitimacy • regular army • Regular Army (United States) • Revolution • revolutions • Romania • Ruhollah Khomeini • Ruler • Saffron Revolution • Saudi Arabia • SAVAK • secret police • Securitate • security agency • security forces • Seminar • Social Movement • Social Science • Society • Soviet Union • State • Strike action • Tatmadaw • Tunisia • United States Department of State • University of Cambodia • University of Malaya • unrest • volunteer army • war • Warsaw Pact • World War II • Yangon
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8099-8 / 1400880998
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8099-7 / 9781400880997