ANTON BEBLER Professor of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaALEX J. BELLAMY Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, Kings College LondonPÁL DUNAY Director, International Training Course in Security Police, Geneva Centre for Security PolicyJAMES GOW Reader, Department of War Studies, Kings College LondonIRINA ISAKOVA Defence Diplomacy Fellow, Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College LondonPAUL LATAWSKI Senior Lecturer in International Affairs, Royal Military Academy, SandhurstPLAMEN PANTEV Associate Professor at Sofia University 'St Kliment Ohridsky' and Director, Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS), SofiaIOAN-MIRCEA PASCU Minister of National Defence of the Republic of RomaniaGRIGORJ PEREPELITSA Head of the Military Police Department, National Institute for Strategic Studies, UkraineSTEFAN SARVAS previously in the Research Department, Czech Ministry of DefenceVAIDOTAS URBELIS Researcher, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, University of Vilnius, LithuaniaTOMAS URBONAS Senior Executive Officer, Lithuanian Ministry of National DefenceILMARS VIKSNE Commandant, Latvian National Defence Academy, RigaMARIE VLACHOVÁ Director, Researcher Department, Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic

' [A] first class work...significant in that it presents concrete and well-documented case studies in a truly comparative fashion...There is no book that comes close to the analysis and information presented here on postcommunist states. This is a major contribution to military sociology, military history and civil-military relations...[A] standard reference for some years to come.' - Charles Moskos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, USA 'This unique book will remain a must-read in the field for years to come.' - Gerhard Kummel, Slavic Review

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Challenge of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Postcommunist Europe; A.Cottey, T.Edmunds & A.Forster PART I: CENTRAL EUROPE Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Postcommunist Poland: The Interplay of History, Political Society and Institutional Reform; P.Latawski Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in the Czech Republic: A Journey from Social Isolation; M.Vlachová & S.Sarvas Civil-Military Relations in Hungary: No Big Deal; P.Dunay PART II: THE BALTIC STATES Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in Latvia; I.Viksne Challenges of Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Control of Armed Forces: The Case of Lithuania; V.Urbelis & T.Urbonas PART III: SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE Defence Planning in Emerging Democracies; The Case of Romania; I.M.Pascu The Nature of Civil-Military Relations in Post-Totalitarian Bulgaria; P.Pantev Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in Slovenia; A.Bebler 'Like Drunken Geese in the Fog': Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Croatia; A.J.Bellamy The European Exception: Civil-Military Relations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; J.Gow PART IV: THE FORMER SOVIET UNION The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in Russia; I.Isakova The Development of Civil-Military Relations in Post-Soviet Ukraine; G.Perepelitsa PART V: CONCLUSION Soldiers, Politics and Defence in Central and Eastern Europe; A.Cottey, T.Edmunds & A.Forster Index