The causes of trust and distrust in the military

Garb, Maja; Malešič, Marjan

doi:10.1080/14751798.2015.1130316

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“…A second trend is the high levels of public trust that militaries enjoy worldwide, according to global surveys. 110 In World Values Survey from 2010-14, 63.6 per cent of the respondents from the total sample expressed trust in their national armed forces, with only universities ranked higher (66.2 per cent) and churches in the third place. 111 In Western Europe, Latin America, and the US, trust in the military exceeds trust in other institutions, with a median of 76 per cent, with France, whose military has been highly visible during the past few years in domestic counterterrorism activities, topping with 84 per cent of the respondents trusting their military.…”

Section: Changing Civil-military Relationsmentioning

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A versatile organisation: Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

Wilén

Strömbom

2021

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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What roles are military institutions expected to play in today's rapidly changing security environment? How are they supposed to interact with the society they are tasked to protect? These questions have been posed by classical military sociologists as well as by a newer generation of scholars. Yet so far, a comprehensive mapping of the military's potential roles in contemporary society is missing. In this article we contribute to an update of this debate by providing a categorisation of the different roles and tasks that the military institution plays in current industrialised democratic states. We identify three core roles, each divided into subroles, by drawing on an extensive reading of 70 National White Papers and Security Strategies from 37 OECD member states: (collective) defence, collective security, and aid to the nation. We analyse how these roles and tasks influence recent configurations in civil-military relations. This study thereby contributes with: (1) a useful illustration of the military's shifting roles and tasks in contemporary society; (2) increased understandings of how the different roles impact civil-military relations and related to this; and (3) a practical starting point for further analyses of the military organisation's internal challenges related to its, at times, contradictory roles.

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Section: Changing Civil-military Relationsmentioning

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A versatile organisation: Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

Wilén

Strömbom

2021

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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“…The country's secession process was largely driven by the idea of demilitarisation (see Grizold 1992: 80;Jelušič 1997: 163) and such an attitude to the armed forces continues among a significant share of the population even after Slovenia established its own armed forces. Today, the armed forces enjoy relatively strong public support (see Garb -Malešič 2016), which is under serious pressure in cases like the local public attitude to the main military training site at Poček. With respect to Montenegro, the post -SFRY socialist legacy was more present in the state union with Serbia (1992-2006) than after it achieved its independence in 2006.…”

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Democratisation of Defence Policies and Systems in Slovenia and Montenegro: Developmental and Comparative Aspects

Prezelj

Injac

Kolak

2020

Politics in Central Europe

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The democratisation of national defence policies and systems plays a vital role in making any country more democratic. The democratic transition of this sector in Slovenia and Montenegro has experienced a challenging reform process and it is now time for reflection. This paper aims to identify the main characteristics and issues of the democratisation process in the field of national defence in both countries and, by comparing them, to look for key similarities and differences. The paper argues and confirms that the Slovenian and Montenegrin national defence and security systems were initially faced with serious post-socialist democratic deficits, but gradual democratisation then brought drastic improvements to the quality of their democracy. The process of joining NATO and the change from a military threat perception to a non-military threat perception created space for many reforms. Greatest steps forward in democratisation in both countries entailed nominating civilian defence ministers, having a reasonable number of civilian defence experts involved in the military business, establishing working parliamentary monitoring committees, reducing defence budgets and reallocating funding to other sectors. Progress was also observed in reducing the total number of soldiers, establishing a fully professional armed force, assuring that women in the armed forces were properly represented and increasing the deployment of soldiers to foreign stabilisation operations in a sign of becoming security providers.

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“…Scholars of military ethics have engaged with the debate over whether the proper role of the military is to adhere to the Huntingtonian notion of "tool of the state" or exercise their moral agency (Coleman, 2009). Both have implications for trust within and in the military (Garb & Malešič, 2016).…”

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Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian–Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis

Oriola

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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This study interrogates the experiences of Nigerian troops in the war against Boko Haram. The paper’s contribution is bi-dimensional. First, it adds to the empirical literature on Boko Haram by analyzing the perspectives of rank-and-file troops. The study finds 10 forms of corruption affecting troops. These have contributed to the inability to defeat Boko Haram. Second, the paper adds to theoretical scholarship on civil–military relations and persistence of small wars. It challenges the bureaucratic-organizational model and the focus of civil–military relations theory on civilian control of the military. The study emphasizes the need to focus on the texture of the relationship between civilian and military leaders. The paper argues that the bureaucratic-organizational model has limited relevance to militaries in the postcolony and proposes a civilian–military leadership interest convergence thesis. The findings are relevant for understanding the spread of terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa and the persistence of small wars in non-Western, illiberal quasi-democratic societies.

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The causes of trust and distrust in the military

Cited by 7 publications

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A versatile organisation: Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

A versatile organisation: Mapping the military's core roles in a changing security environment

Democratisation of Defence Policies and Systems in Slovenia and Montenegro: Developmental and Comparative Aspects

Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian–Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis

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