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" The Soldier's Dilemma: Military Responses to Uprisings in Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, and Syria "
Dorothy Smith Ohl
Lynch, Marc
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804062
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TL48875
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1812321923; 10147583
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Flack, Yvonne N. S.
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The Soldier's Dilemma: Military Responses to Uprisings in Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, and Syria\ Dorothy Smith OhlLynch, Marc
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The George Washington University
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Political Science
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2016
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469
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Committee members: Biddle, Stephen; Brown, Nathan J.; Gallagher Cunningham, Kathleen; Talmadge, Caitlin
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-02808-9
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Why do some soldiers remain part of the military hierarchy during a domestic crisis, while others shirk orders, flee their positions, or defect to the opposition entirely? Existing literature on military institutionalization leads us to expect that the armed forces will either remain loyal or defect from a regime in crisis. Yet, civil conflicts are often accompanied by a fracturing of the military into both loyal and disloyal units, as was the case in Iraq (1991) historically and Yemen and Libya (2011) amid the Arab Spring, for example. Alternative arguments suggest that individual-level factors influence a soldier’s willingness to fight civil revolt, and scholars and observers often suggest that ethnicity in particular determines soldier behavior in such circumstances. Evidence from this dissertation, however, suggests that soldiers who share protesters’ ethnic identity have often used lethal force against mass movements, as was the case in Jordan (1970) and the early stages of the Syrian revolt (2011). Additionally, when coethnics do leave the armed forces, existing arguments fail to explain why some soldiers flee the conflict environment, whereas others actively join in fomenting rebellion.
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Middle Eastern Studies; Political science; Military studies
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Social sciences;Cohesion;Conflict;Middle East;Military;Revolution;Uprising
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Lynch, Marc
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Political ScienceThe George Washington University
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