Table of Contents

Contents and Contributors: Introduction, Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner I. Civil-Military Relations in the New Era Reforming Civil-Military Relations, Samuel P. Huntington Mission Matters, Michael Desch Post-Cold War Military Missions, Louis Goodman II. The Developing World Armed Forces in Latin America after the Cold War, Juan Rial Asian Militaries in the Post-Cold War Era, Carolina Hernandez Security and Transition in South Africa, Jakkie Cilliers III. The Postcommunist World Civil-Military Relations in Poland, Janusz Onyszkiewicz The Russian Military and the Postcommunist Transformation Process, Lila Shevtsova Postcommunist Wars, Charles Fairbanks Epilogue, Joseph Nye

About the Author

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and Marc F. Plattner, counselor at the National Endowment for Democracy, are co-directors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

Reviews

Provides a wealth of information and some fresh thinking on the role of the military and civil-military relations in many parts of the world. The intellectual quality of most contributions is high and they are concise and well-written. -- Dirk Berg-Schlosser Commonwealth and Comparative Politics