Recent narratives of the civil rights movement document black veterans’ contributions to the movement’s success, often attributing their efforts to their military experience. While this attribution makes sense intuitively, alternative explanations for black veterans’ mobilization are not fully explored in existing work. For instance, black veterans were often among the most active members in ma...

What are the most important sources of institutional variation among authoritarian regimes, and how do such institutions influence these dictatorships’ propensity to initiate military disputes? This article argues that most existing studies in both comparative politics and international relations employ a flawed conceptualization of authoritarian institutions. Excessive focus on the personaliza...

The focus of this article addresses drug use and drug markets in Northern Ireland against the backdrop of the most recent Irish political conflict, e.g., 1969 to the present. Between 1969 and 1999, a total of 3289 individuals had died and more than 40 000 were injured as a result of the Northern Ireland political conflict. Extrapolating the data to Britain, comparable figures would reflect 111 ...

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Hannah Arendt’s existential, republican concept of politics spurned Carl Schmitt’s idea that enmity constituted the essence of the political. Famously, she isolated the political sphere from social conflict, sovereign regimes, and the realm of military violence. While some critics are now interested in applying Arendt’s more abstract political ideas to international affairs, it has not been ack...

Khazarprovide Iran with an excellent geopolitical position, while Iran's "antdomination policy" not only deprive it from these privileges but alsobring some serious security challenges for it. U.S. engagement in vasteconomic, military and political undertakings in this region is one of majorthreat for Iran's vital interests. I'm going to argue here that majordifficulty in the way of consisting ...

The goal of my thesis is to analyze the military in a game theoretical framework as an independent interest group. The military is a fundamental institution of the state because it maintains internal law and order, and protects the state from external threats. But, it also has its own interests, which sometimes motivate it to intervene in political processes. Pakistan is a classical example of ...

The article analyzes an evolution of the Japanese-American military-political alliance in end XX – beginning XXI centuries under influence increased political, economical and military potential Japan also radical reorganization international relations period detente Soviet-American relations, cold war, disintegration Soviet Union, rise China, aggravation situation after start limited special op...

in the decentralized international system and lack of central authority, the first objective, priority and precedence of states, is maintenance of national security and preservation of self. from the past, durable national security provision has been include ,three readily type: 1. military readily2. political readily 3. economic readily. but economic factors of national security by the end col...