The Expanding Domestic Role of Western Armed Forces and its Implications
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The domestic roles of Western armed forces are expanding. Although there is broad academic agreement that this trend is widespread, research on its implications has been relatively scarce. Here, I examine three debates that have emerged in the wake of expanding domestic military roles. They include: discussion on the origins of this trend between functionalists and politically-oriented scholars; its implications for civilian control and civil rights; and its effects on military-police convergence. This is followed by a call for more research on how the expanding domestic roles of Western armed forces relate to domestic civil-military collaboration, the management of military organizations, military visibility and reputation, perceptions of new tasks within the military, and the scale of this trend. A concluding section makes a case for drawing more academic attention to this phenomenon. © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
TNO Identifier
866602
ISSN
15477355
Source
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 16(1)
Article nr.
20180052
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