Civil-Military Relations in Medvedev's Russia

Edited by Dr. Stephen J. Blank.

January 2011

116 Pages

Brief Synopsis

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.

Contents

Foreword

About the Contributors

Introduction

1. Civil-Military Relations and Russian Security
Stephen J. Blank

2. Russian Civil-Military Relations: Is There Something New with Medvedev?
Thomas Gomart

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