Civil-Military Relations in Europe: Learning from Crisis and Institutional Change

by Born; Hans

• ISBN13: 9780415385404
• ISBN10: 0415385407
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Democracy is unlikely to develop or to endure unless military and other security forces are controlled by democratic institutions and necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place. The result of a 2-year research project managed under the auspices of the European Group on Armed Forces and Society (ERGOMAS) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), this comparative study examines how contemporary European states, both mature Western democracies and emerging democracies of post-communist Europe, manage the issue of how best to control the very institution that has been established for their protection and wields the monopoly of legitimate force. This volume contains 28 case studies from 14 countries: the Czech Republic, Germany, Georgia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, and the Ukraine. The studies cover a variety of situation from corruption to military incompetence, disobediencetowards civilian superiors, lack of expertise among civilians, to unauthorized strikes and accidents. They focus on the relationship between political, civilian and military actors while identifying problems and dangers that can emerge in those relations to the detriment of effective and legitimate democratic control. This book will be of much interest to students of Civil-Military Relations, military sociology, IR and strategic studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	x
Contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvi
Abbreviations	xvii
PART I Introduction	1	(18)
1 Civilians and the military in Europe	3	(16)
HANS BORN, MARINA CAPARINI, KARL W. HALTINER AND JÜRGEN KUHLMANN
PART II Transition states	19	(76)
2 Stressed and strained civil—military relations in Romania, but successfully reforming	21	(14)
LARRY L. WATTS
3 Differentia specifica: military reform in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	35	(13)
MIROSLAV HADZIC
4 The impact of conflict and corruption on Macedonia's civil—military relations	48	(14)
BILJANA VANKOVSKA
5 Political irresponsibility and lack of transparency in Ukrainian defence reform	62	(17)
ANATOLIY GRYTSENKO
6 Striving for effective parliamentary control over the armed forces in Georgia	79	(16)
DAVID DARCHIASHVILI
PART III Consolidating democracies	95	(80)
7 Problems confronting civilian democratic control in Poland	97	(17)
AGNIESZKA GOGOLEWSKA
8 Civil–military relations in Hungary: from competition to co-operation	114	(16)
FERENC MOLNÁR
9 Executive decisions and divisions: disputing competences in civil–military relations in Slovenia	130	(17)
MARJAN MALESIC
10 Modernisation of the Czech armed forces: no walk through a rose garden	147	(16)
MARIE VLACHOVÁ
11 A battle for civil supremacy over the military in Israel	163	(12)
AMIR BAR-OR
PART IV Established democracies	175	(58)
12 The military voice in France: on the streets and in the newspapers	177	(14)
BERNARD BOËNE
13 Democratic control of the Swiss militia in times of war and peace: ideal and reality	191	(11)
KARL W. HALTINER AND TIBOR S. TRESCH
14 International prestige and domestic democratic values in civil—military conflicts: two Irish case studies	202	(15)
JEAN CALLAGHAN AND RAY MURPHY
15 His master's voice? Freedom of speech and the German Citizen in Uniform	217	(16)
JÜRGEN KUHLMANN AND JÜRGEN ROSE
PART V Conclusions	233	(23)
16 Patterns of democratic governance of civil—military relations	235	(21)
HANS BORN, MARINA CAPARINI, KARL W. HALTINER AND JÜRGEN KUHLMANN
Bibliography	256	(15)
Index	271