Civil-Military Relations in Communist Systems

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-01330-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

This book represents the first attempt to deal with the problem of how to conceptualize the civil-military relations of communist systems within a common intellectual framework. The opening chapters present three major constructs originally designed for analyzing civil-military relations in the USSR: the interest group approach, the institutional congruence approach, and the participatory model. In subsequent chapters the utility of these approaches is tested against a wide variety of communist systems, including those of Cuba, the USSR, China, Romania, Hungary, the GDR, and Poland. In probing these issues for the first time, the authors shed considerable light on the transnational differences and similarities among communist systems, and the dynamics of civil-military relations in all communist systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herspring, Dale R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction -- Some Conceptual Questions -- Interest Groups in Soviet Politics: The Case of the Military -- The Party-Military Connection: A Critique -- The Party-Military Connection: A Participatory Model -- Country Studies -- The Soviet Military-Educational Complex -- Defense Industrialists in the USSR -- Technology and Civil-Military Relations: The Polish and East German Cases -- The Military as an Agent of Political Socialization: The Case of Hungary -- The Military and the Party in Romania -- The Military as an Interest Group in Yugoslav Politics -- A Bureaucratic Approach to Civil-Military Relations in Communist Political Systems: The Case of Cuba -- Professionalism and Politics in the Chinese Armed Forces: A Reconceptualization -- The Soviet–East European Military Connection -- Soviet–East European Military Relations: An Overview