Civil-Military Relations Beyond Purges: Causes and Implications of Ministers of Defense Reshuffles in Non-Democratic Regimes

• In Event: Leadership in Times of Conflict or Crisis

Brief Overview

The proposed project seeks to build a novel biographical dataset consisting of all ministers of defense in all autocracies from 1960 to 2020 to conceptualize the role of defense ministers in mitigating the civil-military relations in autocracies.

Author

• Nikolai Mukhin, American University of Sharjah