Original title: Rozloučení se se zbraněmi: Ne-militarizaci a paradox vojenské nejistoty
Translated title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS: NON-MILITARISATION AND THE PARADOX OF MILITARY INSECURITY
Authors: Williams, Nathan James Frank ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2016
Language: eng
Abstract: A FAREWELL TO ARMS: NON-MILITARISATION AND THE PARADOX OF MILITARY INSECURITY Nathan James Frank Williams Abstract A small number of scholars and political leaders have praised the economic and social benefits of 'non-militarisation' - the policy of possessing no national armed forces. While 26 states currently practice this policy, the security implications of non-militarisation have, until now, largely escaped critical assessment. However, it is this very question of security in the absence of a military which is perhaps the decisive issue for any state considering non- militarisation. Barbey's (2015b) study suggests that, since World War II, non-militarised states have been immune to interstate war. However, since World War II, intrastate war has proven to be both the more frequent and destructive form of warfare. Using a mixed-methods approach this dissertation seeks to quantify and explain the causal effect of non-militarisation on intrastate conflict. It begins by testing the hypothesis that non-militarised states suffer less years of intrastate war than states with a military, using cross-sectional logit analysis on all country-years between 1989-2008. It consistently finds a sizable negative relationship, suggesting that in a given year the probability of intrastate war occurring in a...
Keywords: civil war; demilitarisation; intrastate violence; military expenditure; military involvement in politics

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
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Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/73877

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