Civil-military relations in Europe : learning from crisis and institutional change / edited by Hans Born ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Born, H. (Hans), 1964-

Series:

Cass military studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil-military relations--Europe.

Civil-military relations.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

towards civilian superiors, lack of expertise among civilians, to unauthorized strikes and accidents. They focus on the relationship between political, civilian and military actors while identifying problems and dangers that can emerge in those relations to the detriment of effective and legitimate democratic control. This book will be of much interest to students of Civil-Military Relations, military sociology, IR and strategic studies.

Contents:

1 Civilians and the military in Europe / Hans Born, Marina Caparini, Karl W. Haltiner, Jurgen Kuhlmann 3

Part II Transition states 19

2 Stressed and strained civil-military relations in Romania, but successfully reforming / Larry L. Watts 21

3 Differentia specifica: military reform in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Miroslav Hadzic 35

4 The impact of conflict and corruption on Macedonia's civil-military relations / Biljana Vankovska 48

5 Political irresponsibility and lack of transparency in Ukrainian defence reform / Anatoliy Grytsenko 62

6 Striving for effective parliamentary control over the armed forces in Georgia / David Darchiashvili 79

Part III Consolidating democracies 95

7 Problems confronting civilian democratic control in Poland / Agnieszka Gogolewska 97

8 Civil-military relations in Hungary: from competition to co-operation / Ferenc Molnar 114

9 Executive decisions and divisions: disputing competences in civil-military relations in Slovenia / Marjan Malesic 130

10 Modernisation of the Czech armed forces: no walk through a rose garden / Marie Vlachova 147

11 A battle for civil supremacy over the military in Israel / Amir Bar-or 163

Part IV Established democracies 175

12 The military voice in France: on the streets and in the newspapers / Bernard Boene 177

13 Democratic control of the Swiss militia in times of war and peace: ideal and reality / Karl W. Haltiner, Tibor S. Tresch 191

14 International prestige and domestic democratic values in civil-military conflicts: two Irish case studies / Jean Callaghan, Ray Murphy 202

15 His master's voice? Freedom of speech and the German Citizen in Uniform / Jurgen Kuhlmann, Jurgen Rose 217

16 Patterns of democratic governance of civil-military relations / Hans Born, Marina Caparini, Karl W. Haltiner, Jurgen Kuhlmann 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-270) and index.

ISBN:

0415385407

OCLC:

61362712

Publisher Number:

9780415385404