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Things Fall Apart: The Determinants of Military Mutinies 1945-2015

Date:
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Location:
#245 Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Jaclyn M. Johnson

This meeting will be Ph.D. candidate Jaclyn M. Johnson's dissertation defense.  A description appears below:

"My dissertation explores military mutinies, an understudied topic of civil military relations. I am collecting new longitudinal data that will allow scholars to analyze the determinants and effects of military mutinies across cases, regions, and time. Why do military mutinies matter? Military mutinies are shaping civil conflict in the 21st century by redefining civil military relations and emboldening non-state actors. Mutinies include cases of combatant desertion, defection, and blatant disregard for explicit orders from the state (Rose 1982; Dwyer 2012). Mutinies play a major but understudied role in determining the onset of civil wars, the strength of non-state actors (e.g. terrorist networks or rebel groups) and the likelihood of military coups that inevitably reverse democratization."