Chair
Prof Hamdy Hassan, Zayed University
Hamdy.Hassan@zu.ac.ae, hhamdy21@yahoo.com
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Zayed University
Academic City – Al Ruwayyah, P.O. Box 19282
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Vice-Chairs
Prof James Scott
University of Eastern Finland
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
Karelian Institute
FI‑80101 Joensuu, P.O. Box 111
Finland
Prof. Sérgio Luiz Cruz Aguilar
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP)
Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC)
Campus de Marília. Av. Hygino Muzzi Filho, 737
Marilia, SP
São Paulo, Mailbox: 181
Brasil
Secretary
Prof Shaimaa Moheyeldin
Faculty of African Postgraduate Studies
Cairo University
1 Gamaa (El‑Gama‘a) Street, El‑Gamaa Square
Cairo, Giza, P.O. Box 12613
Egypt
Officers
Prof. Rosalie Arcala-Hall, University of the Philippines Visayas, Philippines
Dr. Yasemin Calmet. Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Peru
Prof. Juichi Inada, Senshu University, Japan
Prof. Francisco Garcia (Francisco Miguel Gouveia Pinto Proença Garcia), Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
Dr. Susanne Martin, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Prof. Ethesham Khan, Magadh University, India
Prof. Kenneth Christie, Royal Roads University, Canada
Dr Alta Grobbelaar, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State. South Africa
Background
Recognised as study group in 1988; granted research committee status in 1999; changed name from "Role of the Military in Democratization" to "Security, Conflict and Democratization" in April 2018.
Objectives
Examines the processes, content and consequences of military interventions in the political systems of third world countries. Military interventions have been a characteristic feature of these countries over the last 30 years or so. In the mid 1980s there was general public revulsion against the culture of military rule, particularly in Latin America.
All these developments created an intellectual sphere which necessitated research in order to examine these processes of democratisation and their consequences. The political economy of military regimes, crisis in civil military relations and the role of military in nascent democracies have also been incorporated as areas of research.
