Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Editors and Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Servants or Masters? The Military in the ""New Russia; 3 Adventurers or Commanders? Civil-Military Relations in Georgia Since Independence; 4 Starting from Scratch: The Establishment of National Armed Forces in the Republic of Moldova; 5 Civil-Military Relations in Lithuania; 6 The Belarus Military: A Loyal Segment of Society?; 7 The Military Forces of the Republic of Armenia
8 Kazakhstan: Military Dimensions of State Formation over Central Asia's Civilizational Fault Lines9 The Yugoslav Army: Trauma and Transition; 10 In Search of Identity: Civil-Military Relations and Nationhood in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM); 11 Civil-Military Relations in Slovenia; 12 Democracy in the ""Fog of War"": Civil-Military Relations in Croatia; 13 Civil Society and Civil War in Bosnia; 14 Conclusions on Post-Totalitarian Civil-Military Relations; Index; About the Book and Editors
Summary
From open civil war in Bosnia and Georgia to the Russian president's use of military units against an uncooperative parliament, civil-military conflicts in the former USSR and Yugoslavia are increasingly attracting world-wide attention and concern. This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the roles of the armed forces in the ongoing struggles for control over the processes of state formation and government in these newly independent countries. Twelve chapters focus on the experiences of particular countries in the region; and introductory and concluding chapters draw out commonalities and differences among the cases, comparing them with one another as well as with post-authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world
