European/Eurasian Review
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By LTC Rick Runner
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany -- The George C. Marshall European Center for Security
Studies Research Center has released its first book "Military and Society in 21st
Century Europe." The book is a result of a multinational, interdisciplinary project organized and
funded by the Marshall Center's Research Department.
Dr. Jurgen Kuhlmann, former Director of the Marshall Center's Research Department and
Jean Callaghan, a member of the Research Department, edited the book which consists of
chapters by 20 scholars from 11 countries. The first three chapters present a commonly
developed and empirically based analytical framework used to examine the relationship between
civil society and the military and defense establishments in Bulgaria, Czech, Hungry, Romania,
Russia, Germany, France, Italy and Netherlands. The scholars were recruited from military
academies and government think tanks. The volume ends with an overview and synthesis jointly
written by three academics from a Western European perspective. These authors predict that the
new democracies in the East will most probably follow in the footsteps of Western Europe, and
face similar shifts in public perceptions of the military and its place in society once they have
reached their Western standards of development.
Military and diplomatic staff officers, their civilian counterparts throughout the national
security structure, politicians and scholars will find both the theoretical framework, individual
country studies and concluding chapters useful in comprehending realities of transition countries
and their defense establishments.
The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies is located in Garmisch-
Parkenkirchen, Germany and is a bilateral institution funded by the United States and Germany.
The Center is dedicated to the advancement of George C. Marshall's vision of a democratic, free,
and undivided Europe and Eurasia that is at peace in the 21st century. The Marshall
Center's mission is to promote the resolution of complex Atlantic-European-Eurasian security
issues through active, peaceful engagement, and enhancing enduring partnerships and
cooperative security. The Center's post-graduate courses, conferences, and research projects
bring together civilian and military professionals from more than 45 countries.
For U.S. readers, the book is published by Transaction Publishers of Rutgers University in
New Jersey. For the European market, the book is published by Lit Verlang in Hamburg,
Germany. For Russian readership, the book is published by Nauchnaya Kniga of Moscow.
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