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Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe One Europe or Several? Series Editor: Helen Wallace The 'One Europe or Several?' series examines contemporary processes of political, security, economic, social and cultural change across the European continent, as well as issues of convergence/divergence and prospects for integration and frag mentation. Many of the books in the series are cross-country comparisons; others evaluate the European institutions, in particular the European Union and NATO, in the context of eastern enlargement. Titles include: Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu and Kieran Williams EMBODYING DEMOCRACY Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe Andrew Cottey, Timothy Edmunds and Anthony Forster (editors) DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE MILITARY IN POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE Guarding the Guards Anthony Forster, Timothy Edmunds and Andrew Cottey (editors) THE CHALLENGE OF MILITARY REFORM IN POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE Building Professional Armed Forces Anthony Forster, Timothy Edmunds and Andrew Cottey (editors) SOLDIERS AND SOCIETIES IN POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE Legitimacy and Change Andrew Jordan THE EUROPEANIZATION OF BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY A Departmental Perspective Valsamis Mitsilegas, Jorg Monar and Wyn Rees THE EUROPEAN UNION AND INTERNAL SECURITY Guardian ofthe People? Helen Wallace (editor) INTERLOCKING DIMENSIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION One Europe or Several? 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Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe Legitimacy and Change Edited by Anthony Forster Department of Politics University of Bristol, UK Timothy Edmunds Department of Politics University of Bristol, UK and Andrew Cottey Department of Government University College Cork, Republic of Ireland pal grave macmillan * Editorial matter and selection and Chapters 1 and 14 © Anthony Forster, Timothy Edmunds and Andrew Cottey Chapters 2-11, 13 © Palgrave Macmillan Ltd Chapter 12 ©james Gow and Ivan Zverianovski 2003 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2003 978-0-333-94622-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark. in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-42630-0 ISBN 978-0-230-52308-1 (eBook) DOl 10.1057/9780230523081 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book. is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Soldiers and societies in postcommunist Europe :legitimacy and change I edited by Anthony Forster, Timothy Edmunds, and Andrew Cottey. p. cm.-(One Europe or several?) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-42630-0 1. Civil-military relations-Europe, Eastern. 2. Civil-military relations-Europe, Central. 3. Sociology, Military-Europe, Eastern. 4. Sociology, Military-Europe, Central. I. Forster, Anthony, 1964- 11. Edmunds, Timothy. Ill. Cottey,Andrew.IV. Series. JN96.A38CS867 2003 322' .S'094091717---dc21 20030S1428 10 9 8 7 6 s 4 3 2 1 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 OS 04 03 Transferred to Digital Printing 2012 Contents Preface vii Notes on Contributors viii 1 Armed Forces and Society: a Framework for Analysis 1 Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster and Andrew Cottey Part I Central Europe 2 The Polish Armed Forces and Society 25 Paul Latawski 3 The Integration of the Czech Armed Forces into Society 41 Marie Vlachovci 4 Armed Forces and Society in Slovakia 56 Marybeth Peterson Ulrich 5 The Armed Forces in Hungarian Society: Finding a Role? 76 Pal Dunay Part II The Baltic States 6 Armed Forces and Society in Latvia: a Decade of Development 97 Jan Arveds Trapans 7 Armed Forces and Society in Lithuania 112 Andrius Krivas Part III Southeastern Europe 8 Ahead of the Curve: the Military-Society Relationship in Romania 131 Larry L. Watts 9 Still the People's Army? Armed Forces and Society in Bulgaria 153 Laura Cleary v vi Contents 10 'La Petite Muette' and Suspicious Controller: Armed Forces and Society in Slovenia 169 Ljubica felusic and Marjan Malesic 11 A Crisis of Legitimacy: the Military and Society in Croatia 185 Alex f. Bellamy 12 Legitimacy and the Military Revisited: Civil-Military Relations and the Future of Yugoslavia 203 James Gow and Ivan Zverianovski Part IV The Former Soviet Union 13 The Army and Society in Ukraine 219 James Sherr Part V Conclusion 14 Conclusion: Patterns and Trends in Military-Society Relations in Postcommunist Europe 237 Timothy Edmunds, Anthony Forster and Andrew Cottey Index 258 Preface This book is the product of a research project on 'The Transformation of Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Context', funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's 'One Europe or Several?' research programme (award number L213 25 2009). The project exam ines the transformation of civil-military relations in the countries of postcommunist central and eastern Europe, exploring emerging pat terns of civil-military relations in the region, the policy challenges these raise and the implications for more general understandings of the changing nature of civil-military relations in the contemporary world. Within this context, this book provides a comparative analysis of the development of military-society relations since the collapse of com munism. This volume is the third in a series of four volumes to be pub lished in Palgrave's ESRC 'One Europe or Several?' series. The first volume, Cottey, Edmunds, Forster (eds), Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe: Guarding the Guards, addressed issues of demo cratic control of armed forces in central and eastern Europe. The second, Forster, Edmunds, Cottey (eds), The Challenge of Military Reform in Post communist Europe addressed questions of military modernisation and professionalisation in the region. A final volume will explore patterns and trends in civil-military relations in central and eastern Europe. The chapters in this book were first presented at a conference on 'The Armed Forces and Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Legitimacy and Change', funded by the Directorate for Central and Eastern Europe of the UK Ministry of Defence at Lake Bled in Slovenia in March 2002 in cooperation with the Department of Defence Studies at the University of Ljubljana. The analysis, opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in this paper are those of the editors and authors alone, and do not nec essarily represent the views of the UK Ministry of Defence or any other government agency. We wish to express our thanks to the contributors to this volume, to the Directorate for Central and Eastern Europe and to the University of Ljubljana. ANTHONY FORSTER, TiMOTHY EDMUNDS, ANDREW COTTEY vii Notes on Contributors Alex J. Bellamy is a lecturer at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Laura Cleary is a senior lecturer in the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis at Cranfield University. Andrew Cottey is Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration and a lecturer at the Department of Government, University College Cork. Pal Dunay is Director of the International Training Course in Security Policy at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Timothy Edmunds is a lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol. Anthony Forster is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Governance Research Centre at the Department of Politics, University of Bristol. James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. LjubicaJelusic is Head of Defence Studies and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Andrius Krivas is Counsellor in the NATO Integration Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. Paul Latawski is a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Marjan Malesic is Head of the Defence Research Centre and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. James Sherr is a fellow at the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Jan Arveds Trapans is a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces. viii Notes on Contributors ix Marybeth Peterson Ulrich is Associate Professor of Government, Department of National Security and Strategy, at the US Army War College. Larry L. Watts is a security sector reform consultant in the Office of the Romanian Presidency. Marie Vlachova is a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces. Ivan Zverzanovski is a research student in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.
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