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Territorial Threats and Military Dictatorships

2020
Many scholars consider the military dictatorship a distinct authoritarian regime type, pointing to the singular patterns of domestic and international behaviors displayed by military regimes. Existing studies show that compared with civilian dictatorships, military dictatorships commit more human rights abuses, are more prone to civil war, and engage ...
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Is Iran a Military Threat?

Survival, 2014
Tehran's military capabilities do not match its ambitions for recognition and status. It iscautious, defensive and prudent in resorting to force, due as much to experience as torealism about its own limits.
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Iran as a Military Threat

1997
Conclusions * Iran lacks the resources to acquire a modern military capable of competing with the United States. The bulk of Iranian investments have been made in ballistic missiles and naval forces. * Iran's ballistic missile capabilities provide it with a force of considerable strategic value.
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Military Threats and Japan's Defense Capability

Asian Survey, 1980
BASED AS IT IS on the Peace Constitution, Japan's defense policy is unique. Article Nine, which has remained unamended since 1946, places clear restrictions on the national military capacity, denounces any act of war, and prohibits Japan from acquiring the ability to wage war.
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From Military Threats to Everyday Fear

International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 2012
The history of combat is primarily the history of radically changing fields of perception. In other words, war consists not so much of scoring territorial, economic or other material victories but of appropriating the immateriality of perceptual field. The function of the eye has become the function of the weapons (Virilio, 1989; 2009).
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Three Threats to Putin’s Regime:Democratic Threat, Military Threat and the Threat of War

Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
Putin’s regime is considered one of the most powerful populist regimes in the world. This essay will explore the most significant threats to a populist regime such as Putin’s. The essay will discuss three types of threats: democratic, military, and the threat of war.
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Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities

2011
Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War. It also proposes balance of military capabilities, which uses offense-defense theory to argue that countries balance against the ability of ...
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Boko Haram’s increasingly sophisticated military threat

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2018
This paper evaluates Boko Haram’s military capabilities and details the process of how its standing army, driven by these capabilities, came to pose a phased threat between 2013 and 2015 in particu...
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A Civil-Military Response to Hybrid Threats

2018
This edited volume provides scholars and practitioners with an in-depth examination of the role of civil-military cooperation in addressing hybrid threats. As they combine the simultaneous employment of conventional and non-conventional tools and target not only military objectives but governments and societies at large, hybrid threats cannot be ...
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The Military: A Threat to Democracy?

Australian Journal of Politics & History, 1998
The military is by its very nature a potential threat to democracy, but in well‐established democracies civilian supremacy has generally been maintained, though there are dangers of excessive military influence. S. E. Finer's seminal 1962 study of civil‐military relations distinguished between the modes and effectiveness of civilian control in mature ...
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