Civil Military Relations In Post Communist Europe

Author : Timothy Edmunds,Andrew Cottey,Anthony Forster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317970422

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Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Europe by Timothy Edmunds,Andrew Cottey,Anthony Forster Pdf

Fifteen years after the fall of communism, we are able to appraise the results of the multi-faceted postcommunist transition in Central and Eastern Europe with authority. This volume specifically addresses the fascinating area of Civil-Military relations throughout this transitional period. The countries of the region inherited a onerous legacy in this area: their armed forces were part of the communist party-state system and most were oriented towards Cold War missions; they were large in size and supported by high levels of defence spending; and they were based on universal male conscription. Central and eastern European states have thus faced a three fold civil-military reform challenge: establishing democratic and civilian control over their armed forces; implementing organisational reform to meet the security and foreign policy demands of the new era; and redefining military bases for legitimacy in society. This volume assesses the experiences of Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Ukraine and Russia in these areas. Collectively these countries illustrate the way in which the interaction of broadly similar postcommunist challenges and distinct national contexts have combined to produce a wide variety of different patterns of civil-military relations. This book was previously published as a special issue of European Security.

Author : Anton Bebler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036072471

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Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist States by Anton Bebler Pdf

This edited collection brings together experts from Europe and the United States to examine how the foundering of the autocracies of Central and Eastern Europe brought about important changes in civil-military relations. Divided into three parts, the volume focuses on international organizations (NATO, WEU, OSCE) and Central-East Europe, the problems of transition to democracy in the region, and relevant developments elsewhere in the world. The work explores the following trends: the increased transparency of defense politics; civilianization of the defense ministries; personnel changes in the upper echelons of the military; national emancipation and new security doctrines; political neutralization of the armed forces; discontinuation of the military's internal security role; and ideological pluralization, among others. An important volume for scholars and students in comparative politics, international relations, and the military and politics.

Author : Mark (Mark John) Yaniszewski,Carleton University. Dissertation. Political Science,ProQuest Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:290480000

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The Comparative Study of Post-communist (transitional) Civil-military Relations in Eastern Europe by Mark (Mark John) Yaniszewski,Carleton University. Dissertation. Political Science,ProQuest Co Pdf

Author : David Betz,John Lowenhardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135311018

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Army and State in Postcommunist Europe by David Betz,John Lowenhardt Pdf

This study explores the complex military issues that are raised by the transition to post-communist rule with particular reference to Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and the new members of NATO. All faced similar problems yet their responses, it emerges, were surprisingly diverse.

Author : Dale R. Herspring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429726392

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Civil-military Relations In Communist Systems by Dale R. Herspring Pdf

This book represents the first attempt to deal with the problem of how to conceptualize the civil-military relations of communist systems within a common intellectual framework. The opening chapters present three major constructs originally designed for analyzing civil-military relations in the USSR: the interest group approach, the institutional congruence approach, and the participatory model. In subsequent chapters the utility of these approaches is tested against a wide variety of communist systems, including those of Cuba, the USSR, China, Romania, Hungary, the GDR, and Poland. In probing these issues for the first time, the authors shed considerable light on the transnational differences and similarities among communist systems, and the dynamics of civil-military relations in all communist systems.

Author : Todor S. Hitrov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1423515307

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Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Countries by Todor S. Hitrov Pdf

Since 1989 the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone an unprecedented transition from communism to democracy. Establishment of democratic control of armed forces is an inseparable part of the process of consolidation of democracy. The purpose of this thesis is to define those factors that influence democratization of civil-military relations in post- communist countries in the process of transition to democracy. My argument is that countries develop democratic control of armed forces in different ways and with different time boundaries, until the end state is achieved, The democratization of civil-military relations depends on capability of the country in transition to effectively establish (by which I mean to build and put into effect) institutions for democratic control of the military. In evaluating development of the democratization of civil-military relations the post- communist countries of Hungary and Bulgaria are studied in detail with particular attention to the process of establishment, development, and interrelation of institutional arrangements. In this aspect historical legacy, international context and path of transition can help or obstruct the process of development of institutions for democratic control of armed forces.

Author : Natalie Mychajlyszyn,Harald von Riekhoff
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061158674

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The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Natalie Mychajlyszyn,Harald von Riekhoff Pdf

The dismantlement of the communist system of control of the military and its replacement with a democratic model is one of the most significant aspects of the post-communist transition in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet-Union. The success of democratic civil-military reforms is an important and underappreciated measure of the state of democratic transitions in these countries, and it also has important implications for and links with regional security and NATO relations. This book examines the state of democratic civil-military reforms in nine East-Central and former Soviet states: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine. An examination of these states is of particular interest and importance given their varied relationship with NATO, a relationship that is influenced to a large extent by the amount of progress in reforming their post-communist system of control of their militaries. Following a comprehensive theoretical chapter on civil-military relations, the individual chapters consider the accomplishments as well as the outstanding shortcomings of democratic civil-military reforms. Overall, the book argues that the weaknesses apparent in all these countries in the implementation of the democratic norms of civilian control of the military require continued attention in order to strengthen not only the relationship with NATO (wither membership is already obtained or sought) but also regional security in general.

Author : David Betz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134344925

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Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe by David Betz Pdf

This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these countries have worked to reform their obsolete armed forces, and bring them into line with the new economic and strategic realities of the post-Cold War world, with new bureaucratic structures in which civilians play the key policy-making roles, and with strengthened democratic political institutions which have the right to oversee the armed forces.

Author : Sabine Mannitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136288845

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Democratic Civil-Military Relations by Sabine Mannitz Pdf

This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering. In the new security environment, democratic states have called upon their armed forces increasingly to fulfil unconventional tasks – partly civilian, partly humanitarian, and partly military – in most complex, multi-national missions. Not only have military structures been transformed to make them fit for these new types of deployments, but the new mission types highlight the necessity for democracies to come to terms with a new image and ethos of soldiering in defence of a transnational value community. Combining a qualitative comparison of twelve countries with an interdisciplinary methodology, this edited volume argues that the ongoing transformations of international politics make it necessary for democracies to address both internal and external factors as they shape their own civil-military relations. The issues discussed in this work are informed by Democratic Peace theory, which makes it possible to investigate relations within the state at the same time as analysing the international dimension. This approach gives the book a systematic theoretical framework which distinguishes it from the majority of existing literature on this subject. This book will be of much interest to students of civil-military relations, European politics, democratisation and post-communist transitions, and IR in general.

Author : A. Forster,T. Edmunds,Andrew Cottey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230523081

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Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe by A. Forster,T. Edmunds,Andrew Cottey Pdf

This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping patterns of military-society relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by international experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : 9781134172382

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Civil-Military Relations in Europe by Anonim Pdf

This new book illustrates how democracy cannot develop or endure unless military and security forces are under the full control of democratic institutions and all the necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place. The contributors show how contemporary European states manage the following issue: how does a society, primarily through its legitimate, democratically elected political leaders and their appointed officials, control the military, that same state institution that has been established for its protection and wields the monopoly of legitimate force? Tw.

Author : Thomas-Durell Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350012417

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Anatomy of Post-Communist European Defense Institutions by Thomas-Durell Young Pdf

Although the West won the Cold War, the continuation of the status quo is not a foregone conclusion. The former Soviet-aligned regions outside of Russia -- Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, and others -- sit atop decaying armed forces while Russian behavior has grown more and more aggressive, as evidenced by its intervention in Ukraine in recent years. Thomas Young delves into the state of these defense institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, whose resources have declined at a faster rate than their Western neighbors' due to social and fiscal circumstances at home and shifting attitudes in the wider international community. With rigorous attention to the nuances of each region's politics and policies, he documents the status of reform of these armed forces and the role that Western nations have played since the Cold War, as well as identifying barriers to success and which management practices have been most effective in both Western and Eastern capitals. This is essential reading for undergraduates and graduates studying the recent history of Europe in the post-Soviet era, as well as those professionally involved in defense governance in the region.

Author : Dale R. Herspring,Ivan Volgyes
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0891581650

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Civil-military Relations In Communist Systems by Dale R. Herspring,Ivan Volgyes Pdf

Author : Biljana Vankovska,Hakan Wiberg
Publisher : teNeues
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1860646247

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Between Past and Future by Biljana Vankovska,Hakan Wiberg Pdf

This text places civil-military relations in the historical context of the tangled evolution of Balkan states. It analyses the debate on how to overcome the "Balkan Legacy" and build peace in the region in the absence of Russian hegemony and how to promote a new political order. It examines the civil-military relations in individual Balkan states and provides a firm underpinning: the book's major theoretical focus is on the concepts of democratisation and control of the military.

Author : Jeffrey Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : MINN:30000010507352

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Central European Civil-military Relations and NATO Expansion by Jeffrey Simon Pdf