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Civil-Military Relations in Medvedev's Russia Visit our website for other free publication downloads http://www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil/ To rate this publication click here. STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) is part of the U.S. Army War College and is the strategic-level study agent for issues related to national security and military strategy with emphasis on geostrate- gic analysis. The mission of SSI is to use independent analysis to conduct strategic studies that develop policy recommendations on: • Strategy, planning, and policy for joint and combined employment of military forces; • Regional strategic appraisals; • The nature of land warfare; • Matters affecting the Army’s future; • The concepts, philosophy, and theory of strategy; and • Other issues of importance to the leadership of the Army. Studies produced by civilian and military analysts concern topics having strategic implications for the Army, the Department of De- fense, and the larger national security community. In addition to its studies, SSI publishes special reports on topics of special or immediate interest. These include edited proceedings of conferences and topically-oriented roundtables, expanded trip re- ports, and quick-reaction responses to senior Army leaders. The Institute provides a valuable analytical capability within the Army to address strategic and other issues in support of Army par- ticipation in national security policy formulation. SSI Monograph CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN MEDVEDEV’S RUSSIA Stephen J. Blank Editor January 2011 The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the -De partment of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. Authors of Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) publica- tions enjoy full academic freedom, provided they do not disclose classified information, jeopardize operations security, or mis- represent official U.S. policy. Such academic freedom empow- ers them to offer new and sometimes controversial perspectives in the interest of furthering debate on key issues. This report is cleared for public release; distribution is unlimited. ***** This publication is subject to Title 17, United States Code, Sec- tions 101 and 105. It is in the public domain and may not be copy- righted. ***** Comments pertaining to this report are invited and should be forwarded to: Director, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 122 Forbes Ave, Carlisle, PA 17013-5244. ***** All Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) publications may be downloaded free of charge from the SSI website. Hard cop- ies of this report may also be obtained free of charge by plac- ing an order on the SSI website. The SSI website address is: www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil. ***** The Strategic Studies Institute publishes a monthly e-mail newsletter to update the national security community on the re- search of our analysts, recent and forthcoming publications, and upcoming conferences sponsored by the Institute. Each newslet- ter also provides a strategic commentary by one of our research analysts. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, please subscribe on the SSI website at www.StrategicStudiesInstitute. army.mil/newsletter/. ISBN 1-58487-473-2 ii CONTENTS Foreword ..........................................................................v About the Contributors ................................................vii Introduction.....................................................................ix 1. Civil-Military Relations and Russian Security.......1 Stephen J. Blank 2. Russian Civil-Military Relations: Is There Something New with Medvedev?.........................77 Thomas Gomart iii FOREWORD The papers collected here represent the Strategic Studies Institute’s (SSI) continuing activity to foster dialogue on topical issues in international security among experts from the United States and abroad. These papers are taken from the conference that SSI conducted on January 25-26, 2010, entitled, “Contem- porary Issues in International Security,” at the Finn- ish embassy in Washington, DC. This was the second conference that SSI organized, bringing together U.S., Russian, and European experts to discuss important questions in contemporary world affairs. We hope to continue these conferences on an an- nual basis because of the importance of such dialogue among experts and governments. But rather than pub- lishing the papers as a book, which we did in 2009, SSI has decided to publish them on a panel-by-panel basis. This particular collection is devoted to the question of civil-military relations in Russia, a topic of profound significance for both domestic and foreign policies in Russia. We hope that the succeeding collections of papers on topics of equal importance will similarly contribute to improved mutual understanding and ongoing dia- logue regarding the great questions of world affairs. DOUGLAS C. LOVELACE, JR. Director Strategic Studies Institute v ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS STEPHEN J. BLANK has served as the Strategic Stud- ies Institute’s expert on the Soviet bloc and the post- Soviet world since 1989. Prior to that he was As sociate Professor of Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL; and taught at the University of Texas, San Antonio; and at the University of California, River- side. Dr. Blank is the editor of Imperial Decline: Russia’s Changing Position in Asia, coeditor of Soviet Military and the Future, and author of The Sor cerer as Appren- tice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities, 1917-1924. He has also written many articles and conference papers on Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Eastern European security issues. Dr. Blank’s cur- rent research deals with proliferation and the revo- lution in military affairs, and energy and security in Eurasia. His two most recent books are Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command, London, UK: Global Markets Briefing, 2006; and Nat ural Allies? Re- gional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation, Carlisle, PA: Stra tegic Studies In- stitute, U.S. Army War College, 2005. Dr. Blank holds a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. THOMAS GOMART is currently the director of the Russia/NIS Centre at the French Institute of Interna- tional Relations (IFRI) based in Paris and Brussels. He is the editor of the trilingual electronic collection Russie. Nei.Visions. Dr. Gomart’s academic and professional background has been closely related to post-Soviet vii space. As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for In- ternational Relations (University-MGIMO-Moscow); Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union-Paris); and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College-London, Dr. Gomart has acquired a diversified international experience. He lectured on international affairs at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan (2002- 2010). In 2008, he co-directed the IFRI/CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) project Europe, Russia, and the United States: Finding a New Balance. Dr. Gomart’s publications include Russian Civil-Military Relations: Putin’s Legacy (Washington, DC, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008); EU-Russia Relations: Toward a Way Out of Depression (Washing- ton, DC: IFRI/CSIS, 2008); and as editor, Russie.Nei.Vi- sions (Paris, France: IFRI, 2009). He has also published various articles, including “L’Europe marginalisée,” Politique internationale, n°118, 2008; “Russia Alone Forever? The Kremlin’s Strategic Solitude,” Politique étrangère, special issue WPC, 2008; “Washington- Moscou: la nouvelle donne” (“Washington-Moscow: The New Deal”), Politique internationale, n°123, 2009; “Obama and Russia : Facing the Heritage of the Bush Years,” Russie.Nei.Visions, n°39, April 2009; “NATO- Russia: Is the ‘Russian Question’ European?” Politique étrangère, special issue, 4/2009; and “Europe in Rus- sian Foreign Policy: Important but no longer Pivotal,” Russie.Nei.Visions, n° 50, May 2010. Dr. Gomart holds an EMBA from HEC and a Ph.D. in history from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. viii INTRODUCTION On January 25-26, 2010, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) organized a conference entitled, “Contemporary is- sues in International Security,” at the Finnish embassy in Washington, DC. This was the second in what we hope will be annual conferences bringing together U.S., European, and Russian scholars and experts to discuss such issues in an open forum. The importance of such regular dialogues among experts is well known, and the benefits of these discussions are considerable. Just as we published the papers of the 2008 conference in 2009, (Stephen J. Blank, ed., Prospects for U.S.-Russian Security Cooperation, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2009), we are doing so now. Howev- er, in this case, we are publishing the papers on a panel- by-panel basis. The panel presented here was devoted to civil-mili- tary relations in Russia. This is, as the papers included here show, a critical topic in understanding the domestic and foreign policy trajectories of the Russian state. The papers provided here do not deny that civilian control exists. But they both show how highly undemocratic, and even dangerous, is the absence of those democratic controls over the military and the police forces in Rus- sia which,
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