TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issues of Democracy

Electronic Journal of the U.S. Information Agency, Vol. 2, No. 3, July 1997


CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN A DEMOCRACY

Focus Commentary Departments

FOCUS

CIVIL AFFAIRS: REFLECTIONS OF THE FUTURE
In a speech before the 1997 Worldwide Civil Affairs Conference, H. Allen Holmes, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, looks at the importance of civil-military relations in the world, both today and tomorrow.

DEMOCRACY AND DEFENSE: CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY IN THE UNITED STATES
In an adapted version of the USIA pamphlet, Democracy and Defense: Civilian Control of the Military in the United States, the former chief historian for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, David F. Trask, talks about civil-military relations in the United States from the early beginnings of the Republic to World War II.

COMMENTARY

CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
Louis W. Goodman, dean of the School of International Service at American University, focuses on civil-military relations from the post-Cold War period and looks at its future in a changing world.

PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
In an interview conducted by Contributing Editor David Pitts, General John Sheehan, supreme allied commander for the Atlantic, explores how the NATO Partnership for Peace initiative has helped participating countries strengthen civil-military relations in the newly emerging democratic states of Europe.

DEPARTMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Recent books and articles on civil-military relations.

INTERNET SITES
Sites on the World Wide Web that feature democracy and human rights issues, including civil-military themes. The opinions expressed on other Internet sites listed here do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. government.

Issues of Democracy

Electronic Journal of the U.S. Information Agency
Volume 2, Number 3, July 1997

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Publisher............................Judith S. Siegel
Editor.....................................Mark Smith
Managing Editor....................Deborah M.S. Brown
Associate Editor...........................Wayne Hall
Internet Editor....................Victoria Silverman
Contributing Editor.......................David Pitts
Editorial Assistant........................Pat Faunce
Reference Specialists....................Carol Norton
......................................Barbara Sanders
Art Director.........................Diane Woolverton
Graphics Assistant.......................Sylvia Scott







Editorial Board


Howard Cincotta...Judith S. Siegel...Rosemary Crockett

Issues of Democracy
USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July 1997