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(Un-)healthy Civil-Military Relations? Militarization of State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Prof and PhD Aurel Croissant, Dr. David Pion-berlin, David Kuehn

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Heidelberg

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The project aims to answer two research questions: (1) What is the role of the military in developing and implementing public policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and Asia? (2) What are the short- to medium-term effects of the military's role during the pandemic on civil-military relations and autocratization in the two regions? Based on the systematic coding of publicly available data and two waves of expert survey, the project team will create and analyze the "Militarization of State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic" (MSRC)-Dataset. The project's findings will be crucial for academics, decision-makers and the broader public to understand the political implications of the pandemic in the two regions and beyond.