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Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe

Guarding the Guards

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Cottey

    1. Department of Government, University College Cork, UK
      Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

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  2. Timothy Edmunds

    1. Defence Studies Department, King’s College London / Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK

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  3. Anthony Forster

    1. Defence Studies Department, King’s College London / Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK

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Part of the book series: One Europe or Several? (OES)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: the Challenge of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Postcommunist Europe

    1. Introduction: the Challenge of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Postcommunist Europe

      • Andrew Cottey, Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster
      Pages 1-17

  4. The Baltic States

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Latvia

      • Ilmars Viksne
      Pages 91-107

    3. The Challenges of Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Control of Armed Forces: the Case of Lithuania

      • Vaidotas Urbelis, Tomas Urbonas
      Pages 108-125

  6. The Former Soviet Union

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in Russia

      • Irina Isakova
      Pages 215-232

    3. The Development of Civil-Military Relations in Post-Soviet Ukraine

      • Grigoriy Perepelitsa
      Pages 233-247

  7. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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    2. Soldiers, Politics and Defence in Postcommunist Europe

      • Andrew Cottey, Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster
      Pages 251-264
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About this book

This major comparative study examines the challenges that the countries of postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe have faced in securing democratic control of their armed forces and establishing civilian control of defence policy. This book explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries shape civil-military relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by leading experts, compare the experiences of the Central European states (such as Poland and Romania), the Baltic republics, the former Yugoslavia republics, Russia and Ukraine.

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' [A] first class work...significant in that it presents concrete and well-documented case studies in a truly comparative fashion...There is no book that comes close to the analysis and information presented here on postcommunist states. This is a major contribution to military sociology, military history and civil-military relations...[A] standard reference for some years to come.' - Charles Moskos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, USA

'This unique book will remain a must-read in the field for years to come.' - Gerhard Kummel, Slavic Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Government, University College Cork, UK

    Andrew Cottey

  • Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

    Andrew Cottey

  • Defence Studies Department, King’s College London / Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK

    Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster

About the editors

ANTON BEBLER Professor of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ALEX J. BELLAMY Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, Kings College London PÁL DUNAY Director, International Training Course in Security Police, Geneva Centre for Security Policy JAMES GOW Reader, Department of War Studies, Kings College London IRINA ISAKOVA Defence Diplomacy Fellow, Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College London PAUL LATAWSKI Senior Lecturer in International Affairs, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst PLAMEN PANTEV Associate Professor at Sofia University 'St Kliment Ohridsky' and Director, Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS), Sofia IOAN-MIRCEA PASCU Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Romania GRIGORJ PEREPELITSA Head of the Military Police Department, National Institute for Strategic Studies, Ukraine STEFAN SARVAS previously in the Research Department, Czech Ministry of Defence VAIDOTAS URBELIS Researcher, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, University of Vilnius, Lithuania TOMAS URBONAS Senior Executive Officer, Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence ILMARS VIKSNE Commandant, Latvian National Defence Academy, Riga MARIE VLACHOVÁ Director, Researcher Department, Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic

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