Civil-Military Relations in Medvedev's Russia

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Civil-Military Relations in Medvedev's Russia is written by Stephen Blank and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1456590391 (ISBN 10) and 9781456590390 (ISBN 13).

The papers presented here are devoted to civil-mili­tary relations in Russia. This is a critical topic in understanding the domestic and foreign policy trajectories of the Russian state. The papers provided here do not deny that civilian control exists. But they both show how highly undemocratic, and even dangerous, is the absence of those democratic controls over the military and the police forces in Rus­sia which, taken together, comprise multiple militaries. The papers present differing U.S. and European as­sessments of the problems connected with civilian and democratic controls over the possessors of force in the Russian state and should stimulate further reflection upon these issues and those related to them. (Originally published by the Strategic Studies Institute)