Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics: Implications for Civil-Military Relations

Lindy Heinecken (Ph.D., King’s College, London) is former Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. She is past president of the International Sociology Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. She was formerly a researcher and Deputy Director of the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at the South African Military Academy. She is also one of the pool of specialists conducting research for the South African Army and is a National Research Foundation B-rated researcher. Her latest book is South Africa’s post-apartheid Military: Lost in transition and transformation (Springer, 2019).

Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D., Queen’s University) is Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College of Canada, Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, and Adjunct Research Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal and a former president of the International Sociology Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. He is an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada and a recipient of RMC’s Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research.