Changing Patterns of Civil-Military Relations in Southeastern Europe

Abstract

Marian Zulean works for the office of the Romanian president as an expert on NATO and U.S. issues. This essay has been written with the support of a NATO-Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council research fellowship. An earlier version was presented at the 2002 International Political Science Association's international conference “Globalization of Civil-Military Relations:Democratization, Reform, and Security.” The author would like to acknowledge the support of NATO's Academic Office and Constantine Danopoulos.

Civil–Military Relations in the Season of Military Populism: Czechia

“…Political development in the CEE in the last 30 years indicates that it has been difficult to meet the standards of theories of the CMR derived from the standards of the Western-style liberal democracies. This fact is covered by many national case studies issued during different parts of the 30-year period, for example, Bebler (1997), Wągrowska (2009), Kříž (2010), Zulean (2012, 2020), Zulean and Şercan (2018), Grant and Milenski (2018), Naydenov (2018). Also, the end of communism did not mean the beginning of CMR in the Western style due to the fact that it was easy to change the old political elite with a new one in the first democratic election, but a change in the military elites has been in motion for generations.…”