Civil Military Relations and Democracy

How will civil-military relations affect efforts to consolidate new democracies in developing and postcommunist countries? How should democratic governments go about establishing civilian control of the armed forces? This volume brings together ten distinguished authorities from around the world to examine these questions as they relate to Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

List of contents

Part 1 Civil-military relations in the new era: reforming civil-military relations, Samuel P. Huntington; mission matters, Michael Desch; post cold war military missions, Louis Goodman. Part 2 The developing world: armed forces in Latin America after the Cold War, Juan Rial; Asian militaries in post-Cold War era, Carolina Hernandez; security and transition in South Africa, Jakkie Cilliers. Part 3 The precommunist world: civil-military relations in Poland, Janusz Onyskiewicz; the Russian military and the postcommunist transformation process, Lila shetsova; postcommunist wars, Charles Fairbanks; epilogue, Joseph Nye.

About the author

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and Marc F. Plattner, counselor at the National Endowment for Democracy, are co-directors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Diamond, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner
• Assisted by: Larry Diamond (Editor), Larry Jay Diamond (Editor), Diamond Larry (Editor), Marc F. Plattner (Editor), Plattner Marc F. (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.1997
• EAN: 9780801855368
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-5536-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Journal of Democracy Books (Pa; A Journal of Democracy Book; Journal of Democracy Books (Pa; Journal of Democracy Book
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Political structures: democracy, Warfare and defence, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Central America, Mexico and Central America