Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe: Guarding the Guards (One Europe or Several?)

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.

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