Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military RelationsThomas C. Bruneau, Scott D. Tollefson The continued spread of democracy into the twenty-first century has seen two-thirds of the almost two hundred independent countries of the world adopting this model. In these newer democracies, one of the biggest challenges has been to establish the proper balance between the civilian and military sectors. A fundamental question of power must be addressed—who guards the guardians and how? In this volume of essays, contributors associated with the Center for Civil-Military Relations in Monterey, California, offer firsthand observations about civil-military relations in a broad range of regions including Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Despite diversity among the consolidating democracies of the world, their civil-military problems and solutions are similar—soldiers and statesmen must achieve a deeper understanding of one another, and be motivated to interact in a mutually beneficial way. The unifying theme of this collection is the creation and development of the institutions whereby democratically elected civilians achieve and exercise power over those who hold a monopoly on the use of force within a society, while ensuring that the state has sufficient and qualified armed forces to defend itself against internal and external aggressors. Although these essays address a wide variety of institutions and situations, they each stress a necessity for balance between democratic civilian control and military effectiveness. |
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... America . The partnership , which was managed by Professor María José Moyano Ras- mussen for CCMR , allowed us to write first drafts of several of the chap- ters included in this volume . We would like to acknowledge the support of the ...
... American States, to name only a few—seek explicitly to shape the military structures, missions, and civil-military relations in the newer democracies in their own image. These include the already proven institutions such as ministries ...
... America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 29. 2. Philippe Schmitter, “The Consolidation of Political Democracies: Processes, Rhythms, Sequences, and Types,” in Transitions to Democracy, ed. Geoffrey Pridham (Aldershot ...
... America , in which he and his contributors review the state of theory on civil - military relations in Latin America , test current prominent theories in comparative politics , and illustrate their findings with empirical data . See ...
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