Civil-Military Relations in Indonesia and the Philippines

Will the Thai Coup Prove Contagious

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2340587
AutoresMark Beeson (0000-0002-8659-262X, University of Birmingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas474-490
Data de publicação2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x07303607
OpenAlexW2058901684
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas27

This article examines civil-military relations in Indonesia and the Philippines in the after-math of the largely unexpected recent coup in Thailand. The central issue it investigates is whether Indonesia and the Philippines may prove equally susceptible to military intervention. The conclusion is that although the potential for coups in the Philippines can never be discounted, Indonesia looks surprisingly stable by contrast. One key cause of this apparent stability, it is argued, is the military's role in economic activities, which makes it more or less content with the status quo. Although the dynamics of civil-military relations are significantly different in both the Philippines and Thailand, all three cases suggest that there is a need to take the political economy of civil-military relations much more seriously if we wish to understand them fully in the contemporary era

Civil society · Civil–military relations · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Intervention (counseling) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Status quo · Asian Studies and History · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies