Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment

This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of  the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and South American regions. The book is interdisciplinary and covers wide-ranging issues relating to civil military relations, democratization, regional security, ethnicity, peace-building and peace keeping, civilian oversight, internal repression, gender, regime change and civil society. 

Steven Ratuva, a political sociologist, is director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and professor in the department of anthropology and sociology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has worked in a number of universities and was recently Fulbright professor at University of California (LA), Duke University and Georgetown University. He is an inter-disciplinary scholar who has published widely on security, conflict, military, elections, development, affirmative action, ethnicity, nationalism, social protection and culture, including as editor-in-chief of the Palgrave Global Handbook on Ethnicity.