Table Of ContentSoldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe
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Soldiers and Societies in
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Legitimacy and Change
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Anthony Forster
Department of Politics
University of Bristol, UK
Timothy Edmunds
Department of Politics
University of Bristol, UK
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Department of Government
University College Cork, Republic of Ireland
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Contents
Preface vii
Notes on Contributors viii
1 Armed Forces and Society: a Framework for Analysis 1
Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster and Andrew Cottey
Part I Central Europe
2 The Polish Armed Forces and Society 25
Paul Latawski
3 The Integration of the Czech Armed Forces into Society 41
Marie Vlachovci
4 Armed Forces and Society in Slovakia 56
Marybeth Peterson Ulrich
5 The Armed Forces in Hungarian Society: Finding a Role? 76
Pal Dunay
Part II The Baltic States
6 Armed Forces and Society in Latvia: a Decade
of Development 97
Jan Arveds Trapans
7 Armed Forces and Society in Lithuania 112
Andrius Krivas
Part III Southeastern Europe
8 Ahead of the Curve: the Military-Society
Relationship in Romania 131
Larry L. Watts
9 Still the People's Army? Armed Forces and Society
in Bulgaria 153
Laura Cleary
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10 'La Petite Muette' and Suspicious Controller:
Armed Forces and Society in Slovenia 169
Ljubica felusic and Marjan Malesic
11 A Crisis of Legitimacy: the Military and
Society in Croatia 185
Alex f. Bellamy
12 Legitimacy and the Military Revisited: Civil-Military
Relations and the Future of Yugoslavia 203
James Gow and Ivan Zverianovski
Part IV The Former Soviet Union
13 The Army and Society in Ukraine 219
James Sherr
Part V Conclusion
14 Conclusion: Patterns and Trends in
Military-Society Relations in Postcommunist Europe 237
Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster and Andrew Cottey
Index 258
Preface
This book is the product of a research project on 'The Transformation of
Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Context', funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council's 'One Europe or Several?'
research programme (award number L213 25 2009). The project exam
ines the transformation of civil-military relations in the countries of
postcommunist central and eastern Europe, exploring emerging pat
terns of civil-military relations in the region, the policy challenges these
raise and the implications for more general understandings of the
changing nature of civil-military relations in the contemporary world.
Within this context, this book provides a comparative analysis of the
development of military-society relations since the collapse of com
munism. This volume is the third in a series of four volumes to be pub
lished in Palgrave's ESRC 'One Europe or Several?' series. The first volume,
Cottey, Edmunds, Forster (eds), Democratic Control of the Military in
Postcommunist Europe: Guarding the Guards, addressed issues of demo
cratic control of armed forces in central and eastern Europe. The second,
Forster, Edmunds, Cottey (eds), The Challenge of Military Reform in Post
communist Europe addressed questions of military modernisation and
professionalisation in the region. A final volume will explore patterns
and trends in civil-military relations in central and eastern Europe.
The chapters in this book were first presented at a conference on 'The
Armed Forces and Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Legitimacy
and Change', funded by the Directorate for Central and Eastern Europe
of the UK Ministry of Defence at Lake Bled in Slovenia in March 2002 in
cooperation with the Department of Defence Studies at the University of
Ljubljana. The analysis, opinions and conclusions expressed or implied
in this paper are those of the editors and authors alone, and do not nec
essarily represent the views of the UK Ministry of Defence or any other
government agency. We wish to express our thanks to the contributors
to this volume, to the Directorate for Central and Eastern Europe and to
the University of Ljubljana.
ANTHONY FORSTER, TiMOTHY EDMUNDS, ANDREW COTTEY
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Notes on Contributors
Alex J. Bellamy is a lecturer at the School of Political Science and
International Studies at the University of Queensland.
Laura Cleary is a senior lecturer in the Department of Defence
Management and Security Analysis at Cranfield University.
Andrew Cottey is Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration
and a lecturer at the Department of Government, University College
Cork.
Pal Dunay is Director of the International Training Course in Security
Policy at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Timothy Edmunds is a lecturer in the Department of Politics,
University of Bristol.
Anthony Forster is Professor of Politics and International Relations and
Director of the Governance Research Centre at the Department of
Politics, University of Bristol.
James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security at the
Department of War Studies, Kings College London.
LjubicaJelusic is Head of Defence Studies and Associate Professor at the
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
Andrius Krivas is Counsellor in the NATO Integration Division of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.
Paul Latawski is a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy,
Sandhurst.
Marjan Malesic is Head of the Defence Research Centre and Associate
Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
James Sherr is a fellow at the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Royal
Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Jan Arveds Trapans is a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for
Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
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Notes on Contributors ix
Marybeth Peterson Ulrich is Associate Professor of Government,
Department of National Security and Strategy, at the US Army War
College.
Larry L. Watts is a security sector reform consultant in the Office of the
Romanian Presidency.
Marie Vlachova is a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for Democratic
Control of Armed Forces.
Ivan Zverzanovski is a research student in the Department of War
Studies at King's College London.
