Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist States: Central and Eastern Europe in Transition

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This edited collection brings together experts from Europe and the US to examine how the foundering of the autocracies of Central and Eastern Europe brought about important changes in civil-military relations. Divided into three parts, the volume focuses on international organizations (NATO, WEU, OSCE) and Central-East Europe, the problems of transition to democracy in the region, and relevant developments elsewhere in the world. The work explores the following trends: the increased transparency of defence politics; civilianization of the defence ministries; personnel changes in the upper echelons of the military; national emancipation and new security doctrines; political neutralization of the armed forces; discontinuation of the military's internal security role; and ideological pluralization, among others. The volume should be of interest to scholars and students in comparative politics, international relations, and the military and politics.

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ANTON BEBLER is Permanent Representative and Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations Office in Geneva. Previously, he has held positions at Princeton University and the University of Ljubljana, and lectured at various universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is the author of Military Rule in Africa (Praeger, 1973) and several other books, and coauthor/coeditor of Contemporary Political Systems: Classifications and Typologies (1990).