FROM THE “RED ARMY” TO A “RUSSIAN PROFESSIONAL ARMY” – VIA MILITARY REFORM: IS THERE THE CASE FOR AN OBJECTIVE CIVILIAN CONTROL?
FROM THE “RED ARMY” TO A “RUSSIAN PROFESSIONAL ARMY” – VIA MILITARY REFORM: IS THERE THE CASE FOR AN OBJECTIVE CIVILIAN CONTROL?

Summary/Abstract: The army has always been an important dimension for the development of nationstate, one of the elements that distinguished this entity form the rest of the actors from the international arena. However, the interest for human rights, the current asymmetric warfare and the wide-spread of trans-national threats seem to question the existence of conventional armed forces and their place on the agenda. The article at hand explores the intricate dimension of military affairs, addressing a crucial question in terms of determining how exactly the balance of power, between civil and military structures, functions in the particular case of Russian Federation. The army has always been for the Russians a core element in their own existence. But after almost twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet system, successive military reforms of the Russian army failed in substantially modernize and professionalize the military sector.

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