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Article: Civil-military relations and nuclearization of India and Pakistan.
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- World Affairs
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Research on the evolving power relations between civil societies and military institutions in different cultures has shown interesting patterns of interaction having a common characteristic. It relates to what Janowitz calls the mark of sovereignty, which denotes the role of military as defender of national sovereignty, covering a broad spectrum of civil-military relations ranging from minimal involvement to active participation in revolutionary movements, from military praetorianism to military intervention, from veto or dual rule to complete takeover, from caretaker to quasi-civilianized regime in its own right (Janowitz 1964, 5-7; Perlmutter 1977, 9; Finer 1988, 149-67; ...