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.
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Provides a wealth of information and some fresh thinking on the role of the military and civil-military relations in many parts of the world. The intellectual quality of most contributions is high and they are concise and well-written.
(Dirk Berg-Schlosser Commonwealth and Comparative Politics )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.
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The concluding years of the twentieth century have been marked by three historic developments that have transformed the political world-the spread of democracy, the collapse of Soviet communism, and the end of the Cold War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unrecognized ministates, objective civilian control, nonmilitary missions, noncombat missions, military subordination, civilian supremacy, effective civilian control, civilian expertise, postcommunist world, internal missions, subjective control, military professionalism, external missions, civilian institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold War, Latin American, United States, South Africa, Soviet Union, South Korea, Eastern Europe, Far Eastern Economic Review, New York, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Aleksandr Lebed, Security Council, South American, Alfred Stepan, Princeton University Press, Boris Yeltsin, Second World War, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Third World, East European, Warsaw Pact, White House, Boris Gromov, Costa Rica New!
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The concluding years of the twentieth century have been marked by three historic developments that have transformed the political world-the spread of democracy, the collapse of Soviet communism, and the end of the Cold War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unrecognized ministates, objective civilian control, nonmilitary missions, noncombat missions, military subordination, civilian supremacy, effective civilian control, civilian expertise, postcommunist world, internal missions, subjective control, military professionalism, external missions, civilian institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold War, Latin American, United States, South Africa, Soviet Union, South Korea, Eastern Europe, Far Eastern Economic Review, New York, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Aleksandr Lebed, Security Council, South American, Alfred Stepan, Princeton University Press, Boris Yeltsin, Second World War, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Third World, East European, Warsaw Pact, White House, Boris Gromov, Costa Rica New!
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- The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics by Samuel E. Finer on 4 pages
- The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil by Alfred C. Stepan on page 11, page 63, and page 130
- Rethinking Military Politics by Alfred C. Stepan on page 26, page 11, and page 43
- The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series) by Samuel P. Huntington on page 29, and page 11
- Military and Democracy: The Future of Civil-Military Relations in Latin America by Louis W. Goodman on page 43, and page 47
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- Prosecution of Former Military Leaders in Newly Democratic Nations: The Cases of Argentina, Greece, and South Korea by Terence Roehrig on page 28, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Confronting Past Human Rights Violations (Cass Series on Peacekeeping) by Chandra Lekha Sriram on page 34, and Back Matter
- Seeking Truth from Facts: A Restrospective on Chinese Military Studies in the Post-Mao Era by James Mulvenon on page 36, and page 47
- Russian Military Reform, 1992-2002 (Soviet (Russian) Military Institutions) by Anne C. Aldis on page 37, and Back Matter
- Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives by David (ed.) Pion-Berlin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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