Table of Contents

Preface: Manfred W orner's Legacy and NATO by Michael Rühle Introduction by Anton Bebler International Organizations and Central-East Europe The Partnership for Peace and Civil-Military Relations in a Democracy by Allen L. Keiswetter The Security Dimensions of European Integration and the Central-East European States by Willem van Eekelen Security Policy and Democratic Control by Heinz Vetschera General Developments and Relevant Experiences Elsewhere Civil-Military Relations after the Cold War by Charles Moskos and John Allen Williams Military Reform and the Innere Fuhrung in Germany by Detlef Bald The Italian Military: Between Fascist Dictatorship and Democracy by Giuseppe Caforio The Portuguese Military in Democratic Transition by Maria Carrilho The Problems of Transition in Central-East Europe The Regionwide Perspective on Post-Communist Civil-Military Relations by Anton Bebler Military Politics and Society in Poland during the Democratic Transition by Jerzy J. Wiatr A Dispirited Army by Sandor Agocs From the Totalitarian to the Post-Totalitarian Military by %Stefan %Sarvas and Marie Vlachowa Civil-Military Relations in Slovenia by Anton Grizold The Role of the Military in Post-Totalitarian Albania by Constantine Danopoulos and Adem Copani Central European Civil-Military Relations and the Question of NATO Expansion by Jeff Simon Postscript by Anton Bebler Selected Bibliography Index

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This edited collection brings together experts from Europe and the United States to examine how the foundering of the autocracies of Central and Eastern Europe brought about important changes in civil-military relations.

About the Author

ANTON BEBLER is Permanent Representative and Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations Office in Geneva. Previously, he has held positions at Princeton University and the University of Ljubljana, and lectured at various universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is the author of Military Rule in Africa (Praeger, 1973) and several other books, and coauthor/coeditor of Contemporary Political Systems: Classifications and Typologies (1990).