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NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics
Jeffrey Simon
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Description for NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics
Hardback. This is the second of three books by Jeffrey Simon on emerging post-communist countries to recently join NATO. As with the previous volume (Hungary), this book represents a tremendous amount of first hand research grounded in primary source material and personal interviews with key civil and military leaders. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; GTB; JPSN; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Ever since the revolutions of 1989-1990, most Central and Eastern European states have been striving to adhere to Euro-Atlantic institutions-NATO and the European Union. Written by an "inside" participant/observer, NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Comparative Study in Civil-Military Relations charts the successes, shortcomings, and continuing challenges faced by the Czech Republic in its quest to receive an invitation to join the NATO alliance in July 1997, in its prepartion for accession in March 1999, and during its first four years as a NATO ally, and by Slovakia in its quest to receive an invitation in November 2002. In addition Jeffrey Simon provides a conceptual framework of civil-military relations that draws upon the lessons of post-Communist transition in the entire Central and East European region. The result is a comprehensive and original study of civil-military relations in two of the most important and interesting transition states of the post-Soviet era.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742529021
SKU
V9780742529021
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99-15
About Jeffrey Simon
Jeffrey Simon is senior fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University.
Reviews for NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics
The transformation of Slovak society and integration into NATO and the EU was an exciting period for me. During my tenure, the defense ministry created the principal strategic documents for the reform of the Slovak Armed Forces and developed concrete steps to achieve NATO interoperability. Jeffrey Simon's excellent book is a concise, impartial, and balanced effort describing Slovakia's complicated, arduous, and painful defense transformation.
Ambassador Jozef Stank, former Slovak minister of defense Jeffrey Simon is unrivaled in his knowledge of new and candidate NATO member states in Eastern Europe. The latest of his first-rate scholarship on NATO's enlargement, this volume on the Czech and Slovak Republics provides a remarkably textured examination of two cases in this historic process.
Lieutenant General (ret.) William E. Odom, former director, National Security Agency The post-Cold War period—from the collapse of communist regimes in November 1989 to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—has passed so quickly; especially for those people living in the countries in the process of transformation, who did not have time to realize that they have passed through historical changes. We, who took an active part in this process of transformation, now have the opportunity to look back and assess what we have passed through, and can appreciate the importance of Jeffrey Simon's NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Comparative Study in Civil-Military Relations. There is no study that compares with this work.
Ambassador Jaromír Novotny, former first deputy minister for foreign relations, Czech Ministry of Defense No author is better qualified, based on his detailed research and his experience, to tell the story of the emerging post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe than Jeff Simon.
Parameters
NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics is strongly recommended for graduate students and professionals in strategic studies and comparative politics.
Perspectives on Political Science
This book could not be more timely. Jeffrey Simon, with lucidity and insight, enlightens us on the seismic changes now occurring in the European security framework. The particulars of the Czech and Slovak cases inform the reader on the overall significance of the NATO expansion and what it means for the world. This is essential reading for both those who seek to understand contemporary Europe as well as those concerned with civil-military relations.
Charles Moskos, Northwestern University Careful and informative. Simon provides a detailed chronology of defense reforms since communism's collapse.
Naval War College Review
For a younger generation of Czechs and Slovaks today at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels or deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, how first Czechoslovakia and then the Czech and Slovak Republics came to grips in the 1900s with the civil-military experience of the years 1918, 1938, 1948, and 1968 represents an issue of grand strategic necessity bound up with the accession to the Washington Treaty. In the past decade this legacy collided with the ups and downs of Czech and especially Slovak domestic politics and might have easily have scotched the bid by the two central European republics to join NATO, returning them to an uncertain existence in a new Zwischeneuropa….How policymakers in Prague and Bratislava finally cheated such fate and made their way to Brussels-Evere forms the subject of Jeffrey Simons excellent account of security sector reform between the Elbe and the Danube from the close of the 1980s to the eve of the Slovak accession to NATO in 2004.
Donald Abenheim, Naval Postgraduate School
Slavic Review
Ambassador Jozef Stank, former Slovak minister of defense Jeffrey Simon is unrivaled in his knowledge of new and candidate NATO member states in Eastern Europe. The latest of his first-rate scholarship on NATO's enlargement, this volume on the Czech and Slovak Republics provides a remarkably textured examination of two cases in this historic process.
Lieutenant General (ret.) William E. Odom, former director, National Security Agency The post-Cold War period—from the collapse of communist regimes in November 1989 to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—has passed so quickly; especially for those people living in the countries in the process of transformation, who did not have time to realize that they have passed through historical changes. We, who took an active part in this process of transformation, now have the opportunity to look back and assess what we have passed through, and can appreciate the importance of Jeffrey Simon's NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Comparative Study in Civil-Military Relations. There is no study that compares with this work.
Ambassador Jaromír Novotny, former first deputy minister for foreign relations, Czech Ministry of Defense No author is better qualified, based on his detailed research and his experience, to tell the story of the emerging post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe than Jeff Simon.
Parameters
NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics is strongly recommended for graduate students and professionals in strategic studies and comparative politics.
Perspectives on Political Science
This book could not be more timely. Jeffrey Simon, with lucidity and insight, enlightens us on the seismic changes now occurring in the European security framework. The particulars of the Czech and Slovak cases inform the reader on the overall significance of the NATO expansion and what it means for the world. This is essential reading for both those who seek to understand contemporary Europe as well as those concerned with civil-military relations.
Charles Moskos, Northwestern University Careful and informative. Simon provides a detailed chronology of defense reforms since communism's collapse.
Naval War College Review
For a younger generation of Czechs and Slovaks today at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels or deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, how first Czechoslovakia and then the Czech and Slovak Republics came to grips in the 1900s with the civil-military experience of the years 1918, 1938, 1948, and 1968 represents an issue of grand strategic necessity bound up with the accession to the Washington Treaty. In the past decade this legacy collided with the ups and downs of Czech and especially Slovak domestic politics and might have easily have scotched the bid by the two central European republics to join NATO, returning them to an uncertain existence in a new Zwischeneuropa….How policymakers in Prague and Bratislava finally cheated such fate and made their way to Brussels-Evere forms the subject of Jeffrey Simons excellent account of security sector reform between the Elbe and the Danube from the close of the 1980s to the eve of the Slovak accession to NATO in 2004.
Donald Abenheim, Naval Postgraduate School
Slavic Review