TY - BOOK AU - edited by Sabine Mannitz AU - Mannitz,Sabine TI - Democratic civil-military relations: soldiering in 21st-century Europe T2 - Cass military studies SN - 9780415516464 (hbk.) AV - U21.5 .D44 2012 U1 - 306.27094 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Sociology, Military KW - Europe KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Military service, Voluntary KW - Soldiers KW - Democracy KW - Civil-military relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Conceptualizations of the democratic soldier in 21st century Europe: competing norms and practical tensions / Sabine Mannitz -- Case studies on traditional democracies -- The Swiss citizen-soldier: a contested tradition / Sabine Mannitz -- The ideal type of the democratic soldier in Britain / Marco Fey -- Case studies on consolidated post-authoritarian democracies -- The German Bundeswehr soldier between constitutional settings and current tasks / Julika Bake / Berthold Meyer -- The image of the Spanish soldier after the transition to democracy / Eduardo Arranz Bueso / José Garcia Caneiro -- Case studies on post-socialist democracies -- Model and reality of the democratic soldier in the Czech Republic / Zdenek Krí -- The ongoing transformation of the Estonian Defence Forces / Leonid A. Karabeshkin -- The democratic soldier in Hungary -- András Rácz / Erzsébet N. Rózsa -- The Lithuanian reform of the armed forces after independence / Grajina Miniotaite -- The Polish soldier between national traditions and international projection / Maria Wagrowska -- Democratic soldiering in Romania: from norms through policy to reality / Marian Zulean -- State building and images of the democratic soldier in Serbia / Filip Ejdus -- The Ukrainian model of the democratic soldier / Sergiy Gerasymchuk -- Conclusions -- Transformation stress: democratic soldiers between ideals and mission impossible / Harald Müller ER -