Publishing Institution: European Union Institute for Security Studies / Topic: Security

Author:: Sander Huisman
Publication Date:: 03-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: European Union Institute for Security Studies
Abstract:: Just as Königsberg became known for its intellectual weight, symbolised by the brain-twister how to cross the city's seven bridges without passing one of them twice; Kaliningrad is notorious for the immense problems it has to deal with, perhaps mirrored by the inconclusive ways the EU and the Kremlin are figuring out how to assist the oblast. Any government would get frightened if faced with a task of the daunting magnitude that Kaliningrad's governor Yegorov and his administration face.
Topic:: Security
Political Geography:: Europe

Author:: Rudolf Joo
Publication Date:: 02-1996
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: European Union Institute for Security Studies
Abstract:: Political control of armed forces is not a problem that has confronted only liberal democracies of the twentieth century. Even less is it an issue challenging only the democratizing societies of Central and Eastern Europe in the l990s. The crucial dilemma -- that a separate armed body established in order to protect a society might pose a threat to that same society -- goes back to antiquity. The ever-relevant question of who guards the guards was a central issue in Plato's dialogue The Republic, written about 2,500 years ago. Plato, in presenting what he considered to be the right order of society, described the military state as a deviation. Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire were both confronted with the dilemma `sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?' The question has remained the same over the centuries, but as armed forces and society have changed, the nature of the problem has also changed.
Topic:: Security, Defense Policy, Democratization, and Government
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe and Greece

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