Impediments to Reform in European Post-Communist Defense Institutions - Addressing the Conceptual Divide
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Young, Thomas-Durell
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2016
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2016
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Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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Abstract
This article argues two key points. First, that that Western democratic and communist defense
and military concepts are antithetical and includes an explanation of why this is the case.
Second, evidence is provided to demonstrate that legacy concepts are very much both actively
and passively evident in European post-communist defense institutions. Consequently, it is
argued that absent systematic efforts to expose and challenges the legitimacy of existing
legacy concepts (and their accompanying assumptions and institutional logic), these institutions
will continue to exist at best in a state of conceptual incoherence, and at worse as zombie
organizations; not dead, but certainly lacking any manifestations of life.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2016.1220256
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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14 p.
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Young, Thomas-Durell. "Impediments to Reform in European Post-Communist Defense Institutions: Addressing the Conceptual Divide." Problems of Post-Communism (2016): 1-14.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.