In an interview, David Chuter discusses his book on civil-military relations, which will be released in Arabic this week.
Nathan Toronto is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Nathan Toronto was the commissioning editor of the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS) at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. His work focuses on civil-military relations, battlefield effectiveness, military recruitment and education, and Middle East security, especially in the Gulf region.
Previously, Toronto was a founding faculty member at the UAE National Defense College (2013-2019), and taught military operations and strategy at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (2009-2013). He was also a researcher at the US Army/USMC Counterinsurgency Center and the Foreign Military Studies Office. He is the author of How Militaries Learn: Human Capital, Military Education, and Battlefield Effectiveness (2018), and editor, with Daniel G. Cox, of Stability Economics: The Economic Foundations of Security in Post-Conflict Environments (2012). He is the author of a widely-used country-year data set on conscription, and he has published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Armed Forces & Society, among other outlets.
In an interview, David Chuter discusses his book on civil-military relations, which will be released in Arabic this week.
Under the presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, civil-military relations remain imbalanced: but paradoxically, the overwhelming role of the military, also as economic player, combines with the subtle narrowing of the military as cohesive entity.
Egypt has long sought to expand habitation and agriculture into the desert, but the obstacles are great.
Egypt has no choice but to hope that its short-term wagers in Libya pay off down the road.