Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe Legitimacy and Change

This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping patterns of military-society relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by international experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

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This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism.

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'[This book] provides well researched analyses of the diverse ways in which the individual countries of the CEE region have evolved new perspectives and norms of military legitimacy during a period of dramatic change...anyone serving in a CEE country or working with staff officers or troops from this region would do well to dip into this volume.' - Peter Williams, The British Army Review

Product details

• Assisted by: T. Edmunds (Editor), A. Forster (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.09.2003
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781349426300
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42630-0
• Pages: 264
• Illustrations: IX, 264 p. 7 illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm
• Weight (packing): 351 g
• Series: One Europe or Several?
• Subjects: Europa; Krieg und Verteidigung; auseinandersetzen