NS3025 Introduction to Civil-Military Relations

This course introduces students to the basic concepts and issues in civil-military relations. It offers a historical and comparative analysis of different patterns of military participation in politics, defense policy making and national development. The course also introduces alternative models for structuring civil-military relations, and examines the problems associated with the models adopted by the United States and other nations. PREREQUISITE: None.

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Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

assess the role and the level of influence of the armed forces in polities and politics;
identify, compare, and contrast the various forms of praetorian non-democratic regimes;
identify, compare, and contrast the various forms of non-democratic regimes;
assess the various forms of transitions to democracy of praetorian non-democratic regimes:
analyze the roles that the military plays in democratic transitions;
describe, define, analyze, critique and apply key concepts and frameworks of, and approaches to, Civil-Military Relations;
analyze and debate past and current Civil-Military Relations trends and developments in democracies; and
describe and assess various institutions and reforms involved in achieving Civil-Military Relations in democracies:

describe and assess forms and institutions of democratic civilian control over the armed forces (understand that democratic civilian control is a process);
assess the current spectrum of roles and missions of the armed forces (and other security institutions), and the decision regarding the military roles and missions.