Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Europe: Reviewing the Transition

ISBN-13: 9781138376694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 188 str.

Timothy Edmunds;Andrew Cottey;Anthony C. Forster

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Civil-Military Relations in Postcommunist Europe: Assessing the Transition  2. The Half-Hearted Transformation of the Hungarian Military  3. The Transformation of Postcommunist Civil-Military Relations in Poland  4. Democracy and Defence in Latvia: Thirteen Years of Development: 1991—2004  5. Civil-Military Relations in Croatia: Politicisation and Politics of Reform  6. The Transformation of Romanian Civil-Military Relations: Enabling Force Projection  7. Civil-Military Relations in Serbia-Montenegro: An Army in Search of a State  8. Vladimir Putin and Military Reform in Russia  9. Ukraine: Reform in the Context of Flawed Democracy and Geopolitical Anxiety