Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe

ANDREW COTTEY is Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Political Integration in the Department of History, University College Cork, and Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He has published widely on European and international security issues. TIMOTHY EDMUNDS is a Research Fellow in the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London. During 2000, he was twice part of a UK-based advisory panel to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence on military reform. He has published widely on issues of civil-military relations and Central Asian politics. DR ANTHONY FORSTER is Research Director in the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London. Since 1999 he has been a Special Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Common Foreign and Security Policy (Sub-Committee C). Dr Forster has published widely on EU-ASEAN relations and the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common European Security and Defence Policy.

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Challenge of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Postcommunist Europe; A.Cottey, T.Edmunds & A.Forster PART I: CENTRAL EUROPE Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Postcommunist Poland: The Interplay of History, Political Society and Institutional Reform; P.Latawski Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in the Czech Republic: A Journey from Social Isolation; M.Vlachová & S.Sarvas Civil-Military Relations in Hungary: No Big Deal; P.Dunay PART II: THE BALTIC STATES Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in Latvia; I.Viksne Challenges of Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Control of Armed Forces: The Case of Lithuania; V.Urbelis & T.Urbonas PART III: SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE Defence Planning in Emerging Democracies; The Case of Romania; I.M.Pascu The Nature of Civil-Military Relations in Post-Totalitarian Bulgaria; P.Pantev Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in Slovenia; A.Bebler 'Like Drunken Geese in the Fog': Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Croatia; A.J.Bellamy The European Exception: Civil-Military Relations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; J.Gow PART IV: THE FORMER SOVIET UNION The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in Russia; I.Isakova The Development of Civil-Military Relations in Post-Soviet Ukraine; G.Perepelitsa PART V: CONCLUSION Soldiers, Politics and Defence in Central and Eastern Europe; A.Cottey, T.Edmunds & A.Forster Index

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