Taiwan's Transition to Democracy

Maclay, Jeffrey D.

doi:10.21236/ada387959

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“…Under Chiang-Kai-Shek, the Taiwanese military was primarily concerned with the potential for invasion by China. Not certain of the US commitment to defend Taiwan, the only option seemed to be the creation of a strong, defensive military (Cheng, 1993;Maclay, 2006). 17 Taiwan began democracy with two sets of elections and constitutional changes in 1986 and 1992.…”

Section: Taiwanmentioning

confidence: 99%

US professional military education and democratization abroad

Ruby

Gibler

2010

European Journal of International Relations

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United States Professional Military Education (US PME) has commonly been blamed for training some of the worst abusers of human rights — Latin American dictators and thugs like Argentina’s Leopoldo Galtieri and Panama’s Manuel Noriega, Timorese counterinsurgents, and even some officers who would eventually serve the Taliban in Afghanistan. We test this conventional wisdom using both large-N analyses and case studies of Argentina, Greece, and Taiwan. Our large-N results suggest that US PME trained foreign officers prove to be an important stabilizing force during times of democratic transition. Our case studies uncover very few cases of US PME officers linked to human rights abuses; interestingly, in each of our cases, the US PME trained officers provided the initial infrastructure needed to begin domestic military education programs that encouraged civilian control of the military in emerging democracies.

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Section: Taiwanmentioning

confidence: 99%