Military & Company: Explaining the pursuit of business by state military and security forces

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2010
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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After defining military business and briefly discussing its significance, this paper will evaluate the success of three hypotheses in the positive cases of the People's Liberation Army in China, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in Iran, and in the negative case of the Israeli Defense Forces in Israel. The first hypothesis focuses on the secondary roles of militaries to explain why some militaries pursue involvement in business. The second hypothesis suggests that all militaries will pursue business unless they are limited in some way: either by economic conditions or a dominant civilian government. The final hypothesis argues that military business is best explained as a response to budget cris[es].
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