POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Small Arms Trade, Security Sector Governance And Reform, Demining
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Coup-proofing: how can developing democracies reduce the risk of military intervention: disband army (costa rica), weaken it (cut budget, decrease numbers) (panama) The problem with this is that it could make the military angry and make them want to have a coup. It is much better to do it slowly: buy it off- the downside is that the military gets extra influence, penetrate it with loyalists (china, soviet union, etc. Syrians do this-you find a disproportionate number of the religious minority in the army (especially the officer core). Dealing with small arms proliferation (arms in the hands of civilians) Broad definition includes the violent transfer of political power, and insurgency. The narrow definition entails: violent transfer of political power and fundamental social transformation, french revolution (1789), russian revolution (1917), chinese revolution (1949) Where, why and when do revolutions occur? (what are the conditions?) They occur when: the ruled revolt, the rulers can no longer continue to rule.