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- Title
REFORMING CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN POST-COMMUNIST STATES: CIVIL CONTROL vs. DEMOCRATIC CONTROL.
- Authors
Watts, Larry L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the civil-military relations in post-communist European countries. It is observed that the new civilian authorities in almost all of the former Communist states of Europe viewed their military leaderships as suspect because of their prior subordination to Soviet Union, their role as domestic repressive forces, and the potential threat they posed to the consolidation of democracy and to the newly elected governments. The new civilian defense managers treated their military colleagues as suspect and culpable for the past behavior of their respective armed forces under the Communist regimes. As the Communist experience illustrated, direct civilian control has nothing necessarily to do with democratic, control. Civilian control simply means that non-military personnel held positions of administrative authority over the military and decision-making powers on defense issues. It reveals little about the political beliefs and practices of those civilians or about the types of policy decisions they make.
- Subjects
EUROPE; CIVIL-military relations; EXECUTIVE power; CIVIL supremacy over the military; MILITARY government; COMMUNIST state
- Publication
Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 2002, Vol 30, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0047-2697
- Publication type
Article