Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe
Subtitle: Guarding the Guards (One Europe or Several?)
Contributors: Andrew Cottey (Editor); Timothy Edmunds (Editor); Anthony Forster (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780333946244
Subjects: Central government; International relations; Warfare & Defence; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Eastern Europe; Europe; General; Political Science / International Security; Eastern Europe - General; International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; 1989-; Civil-military relations; Congresses; Europe, Eastern; Former Soviet republics; Politics and government
First sentence: After the collapse of communism in 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the enormous challenge of making the transition from communism to an unknown future, with little or no experience of democracy, market economics or stable relations with their neighbours to build on.