Abstract
The issue of democratic control of the armed forces in Europe, though much debated, has also tended to be segmented and surrounded by a degree of confusion. Segmentation is a result of a concern with different issues which derive from the particular experiences of the two halves of the continent. In the west, because the institutional frameworks for the subordination of armed forces to elected civilians have existed for some time, attention has generally focused on the effectiveness and character of democratic civilian control and generally assumed this to be unproblematic (Cizre, 2004: 110). In central and eastern Europe, on the other hand, the scholarly literature in the post-Cold War period has tended to concentrate on methods of establishing such control and the form it should take, rather than consideration of its effectiveness (Burk, 2002: 8; Forster, 2002). This has limited attempts to offer a cross-European analysis of the issue of democratic civilian control of armed forces, based on an untested assumption that more divides postcommunist states from the west than unites them.
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Forster, A. (2006). Democratic Governance of Armed Forces in Europe. In: Armed Forces and Society in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502406_2
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