Who Guards the Guardians and How

by Bruneau, Thomas C.; Tollefson, Scott D.

• ISBN13: 9780292719248
• ISBN10: 0292719248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

The continued spread of democracy into the twenty-first century has seen two-thirds of the almost two hundred independent countries of the world adopting this model. In these newer democracies, one of the biggest challenges has been to establish the proper balance between the civilian and military sectors. A fundamental question of power must be addressed-who guards the guardians and how? In this volume of essays, contributors associated with the Center for Civil-Military Relations in Monterey, California, offer firsthand observations about civil-military relations in a broad range of regions including Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Despite diversity among the consolidating democracies of the world, their civil-military problems and solutions are similar-soldiers and statesmen must achieve a deeper understanding of one another, and be motivated to interact in a mutually beneficial way. The unifying theme of this collection is the creation and development of the institutions whereby democratically elected civilians achieve and exercise power over those who hold a monopoly on the use of force within a society, while ensuring that the state has sufficient and qualified armed forces to defend itself against internal and external aggressors. Although these essays address a wide variety of institutions and situations, they each stress a necessity for balance between democratic civilian control and military effectiveness.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Actors and Institutions

Military Professionalism in a Democracy

Legislatures and National Defense: Global Comparisons

Ministries of Defense and Democratic Control

Roles and Missions of the Military

Strategy Formulation and National Defense: Peace, War, and the Past as Prologue

The Spectrum of Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces

Issues in Civilian Control of the Military

Reforming Intelligence: The Challenge of Control in New Democracies

Defense Budgets, Democratic Civilian Control, and Effective Governance

Conscription or the All-Volunteer Force: Recruitment in a Democratic Society

Professional Military Education in Democracies

Conclusion

About the Editors and Contributors

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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