Definition, diagnosis, therapy: A civil-military critique
For more than two generations, civil–military relations has been an arena with very little autonomous theoretical development – if by theory we mean explanation based on tests of hypotheses. Since formative concepts were offered by Samuel Huntington, Morris Janowitz, and Samuel Finer, configurative descriptions and historical summaries have prevailed. While the role of “threat” has been examined, wider issues of national security competence have been explored, and some ideas such as that of a “civil army” have been introduced, we can count on the fingers of one hand the number of scholars who have written about civil–military relations qua theory. Yet, if we define conservaDefense & Security Analysis Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 157–170, 2002
The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe
Introduction: ordering from the menu in Central Europe 1. The new institutionalisms and theories of emulation 2. Emulation as rapid modernization: health care and consumer protection 3. Emulation under pressure: regional policy and agriculture 4. The struggle for civilian control 5. Military professionalization in war and peace 6. Using theory to illuminate the cases 7. Theoretical syntheses 8. Conclusions and extensions.
"Security in a post-hegemonic world"
[From the Introduction]. By various accounts, bipolarity has ended, superpowers have disengaged, the East-West ideological contest is over, and global politics are being restructured. More evocatively, Joseph Nye has written, "...the tectonic plates that have undergirded world politics for half a century have shifted." (1) All of these descriptions of current metamorphoses have their genesis in the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the withdrawal of the Soviet Union's military forces from East-Central Europe, the reunification of Germany, and the prospects for a Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty.