The State of the Study of Relations of ‘Civil-Military Relations’ and ‘Military Business’: A Brief Survey

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Anekchai Rueangrattanakorn

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The State of the study of ‘civil-military relations’ mainly rely on an approach, underlying causal relationships between the military and civilian actors that in way relate to the power in political decision making. However, another approach is emphasized to explain the relationship of ‘civil-military relations’ and the extent of the military’s control over economic sectors, called ‘military businesses’. It tries to explain that political and social conditions under different circumstances caused the different levels of military business and
civilian control. Therefore, this approach, which is applied to the study of the military’s role in the political and economic realms, would comprehensively build up and broaden the existing body of knowledge in the study of civil-military relations.

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Rueangrattanakorn, A. (2020). The State of the Study of Relations of ‘Civil-Military Relations’ and ‘Military Business’: A Brief Survey. Parichart Journal, 33(3), 1–19. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/parichartjournal/article/view/235971
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Anekchai Rueangrattanakorn, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

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