Civil-military Relations in Medvedev's Russia

Download or read book Civil-military Relations in Medvedev's Russia written by Stephen Blank and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil-military relations is a critical topic in understanding the domestic and foreign policy trajectories of the Russian state. The papers here do not deny that civilian control exists. But they both highlight 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. These 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.