Civil-Military Relations in Medvedev's Russia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780395524)

The best recent scholarship on Russian civil-military relations explicitly addresses this issue's importance for both domestic and external security. An inquiry into the present state of those relations under conditions of defense reform and the current international situation is of immense analytical and policy relevance for both domestic and external security in Russia. While the Russian regime is serious about military reform, it is encountering severe objections from the uniformed military, and the military has successfully persuaded the government to accept its expansive concept of the threats to Russia, i.e., its threat assessment. Therefore, we must closely follow those developments to understand more clearly current tendencies in Russian politics and policy as a whole. Specifically, this chapter examines issues pertaining to civil-military relations in several areas of Russian national security policies that suggest some disturbing trends for the future.

Author: Stephen J. Blank,Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN-10: 1780395523
ISBN-13: 9781780395524
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2011
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.24d