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22 Armed Forces & Soc'y 7 (1995-1996)

handle is hein.journals/amdfcsad22 and id is 1 raw text is: Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered: A Theory of Concordance REBECCA L. SCHIFF W by will a military intervene in its own nation's system of govern- ment? What conditions promote or inhibit domestic military inter- vention? These are the central questions of this article. More nations today are engaged in the process of realigning and reorganizing their militaries than at any point since World War II. Civil- military relations have reemerged as a vital topic of study for students of international relations, comparative politics, and military sociology. A major conclusion of current civil-military relations theory is that militar- ies should remain physically and ideologically separated from political institutions. By contrast, the alternative theory proposed in this article argues that three partners-the military, the political elites, and the citi- zenry-should aim for a cooperative relationship that may or may not involve separation but does not require it. This concordance theory sees a high level of integration between the military and other parts of society as one of several types of civil-military relationship. Because all such rela- tionships reflect specific institutional and cultural conditions shared by the three partners, no single type is seen as leading necessarily to domes- tic military intervention. Concordance does not preclude the separation of civilian institutions and control of the military, but, under certain cultural conditions, civilian institutions or the very idea of civil may be inappro- priate. Therefore, the specific type of civil-military relationship adopted is REBECCA L. SCHIFF recently received her doctorate from the University of Chicago and at the time of this writing was teaching political science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Correspondence may be directed to: Corporate Concordance, P.O. Box 3202, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. ARMED FORCES & SOCIETY, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1995, pp. 7-24.

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