The Evolution Of Civil Military Relations In East Central Europe And The Former Soviet Union

Author : Natalie Mychajlyszyn,Harald von Riekhoff
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134344932

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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 : Dale R. Herspring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Timothy Edmunds,Andrew Cottey,Anthony Forster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Dale R. Herspring,Ivan Volgyes
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Roman Kolkowicz,Andrzej Korbonski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000263688

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Soldiers, Peasants, and Bureaucrats by Roman Kolkowicz,Andrzej Korbonski Pdf

This book, first published in 1981, is a comprehensive examination of the main theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to the study of the military in modernising political systems, in socialist and non-socialist countries. It analyses civil-military relations in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and China, and in doing so sheds new light on the comparative politics and strategic affairs of the Cold War period.

Author : Philipp H. Fluri,Gustav E. Gustenau,Plamen I. Pantev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3790815721

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The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in South East Europe by Philipp H. Fluri,Gustav E. Gustenau,Plamen I. Pantev Pdf

This book, authored by a multi-national team, draws a complicated, yet logically evolving picture of the problems in the security sector reform field of South-East Europe, examining the post-totalitarian and post-conflict challenges to be faced.

Author : Anton Bebler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Central Agency
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1479145815

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The Warsaw Pact - Soviet-East European Military Relations in Historical Perspective Sources and Reassessments by Central Agency Pdf

After Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed twenty years ago and the Soviet Union disintegrated two years later, immense opportunities for archival research opened. Even though serious obstacles to archival work have persisted in Russia (which houses the central repositories of the Soviet regime), the archives of nearly all of the former Warsaw Pact countries are now fully or at least largely open. As a result, scholars have been able to explore many aspects of the Warsaw Pact that could only be guessed at in the past, including questions of military planning, force preparations and operations, nuclear command arrangement, and civil-military issues.

Author : Constantine Danopoulas,Daniel Zirker
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043114720

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The Military And Society In The Former Eastern Bloc by Constantine Danopoulas,Daniel Zirker Pdf

In The Military and Society in the Former Eastern Bloc , an assortment of regional specialists in military relations are gathered together to comment on the current state of the military in a number of Eastern bloc states, including: Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Mongolia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. Each chapter provides more than a simple status-report on military readiness in these states, focusing instead on the relationship between the military, politics, and society in these new and burgeoning democracies. Further, contributors evaluate and predict the future of the military in political developments in these regions.

Author : Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn,Philip Lorenz
Publisher : Policy Studies (East-West Cent
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0866382267

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Breaking with the Past? by Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn,Philip Lorenz Pdf

In recent decades, several East Asian nations have undergone democratic transitions accompanied by changes in the balance of power between civilian elites and military leaders. These developments have not followed a single pattern: In Thailand, failure to institutionalize civilian control has contributed to the breakdown of democracy; civil-military relations and democracy in the Philippines are in prolonged crisis; and civilian control in Indonesia is yet to be institutionalized. At the same time, South Korea and Taiwan have established civilian supremacy and made great advances in consolidating democracy. These differences can be explained by the interplay of structural environment and civilian political entrepreneurship. In Taiwan, Korea, and Indonesia, strategic action, prioritization, and careful timing helped civilians make the best of their structural opportunities to overcome legacies of military involvement in politics. In Thailand, civilians overestimated their ability to control the military and provoked military intervention. In the Philippines, civilian governments forged a symbiotic relationship with military elites that allowed civilians to survive in office but also protected the military's institutional interests. These differences in the development of civil-military relations had serious repercussions on national security, political stability, and democratic consolidation, helping to explain why South Korea, Taiwan, and, to a lesser degree, Indonesia have experienced successful democratic transformation, while Thailand and the Philippines have failed to establish stable democratic systems.

Author : Thomas-Durell Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350012400

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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 : Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801855365

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Civil-Military Relations and Democracy by Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner Pdf

Based on a conference held in Washington, DC, 13-14 Mar 1995.

Author : Thomas C. Bruneau,Florina Cristiana Matei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415782739

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The Routledge Handbook of Civil-military Relations by Thomas C. Bruneau,Florina Cristiana Matei Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations not only fills this important lacuna, but offers an up-to-date comparative analysis which identifies three essential components in civil-military relations: (1) democratic civilian control; (2) operational effectiveness; and (3) the efficiency of the security institutions. This Handbook will be essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of civil-military relations.

Author : Philipp H. Fluri,Gustav E. Gustenau,Plamen I. Pantev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783790816563

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The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in South East Europe by Philipp H. Fluri,Gustav E. Gustenau,Plamen I. Pantev Pdf

This book, authored by a multi-national team, draws a complicated, yet logically evolving picture of the problems in the security sector reform field of South-East Europe, examining the post-totalitarian and post-conflict challenges to be faced.