TY - BOOK AU - PORTER,Jack J. TI - The construction of liberal democracy: the role of civil-military institutions in state and nation-building in west Germany and South Africa SN - 9781584874379 (pbk.) PY - 2010///] CY - Carlisle, PA : PB - Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, KW - POLITICAL ASPECTS KW - NATIONAL SECURITY KW - SOCIAL ASPECTS KW - GERMANY KW - DEMOCRACY KW - SOUTH AFRICA N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-61) N2 - This monograph analyzes the decisionmaking process behind the construction of German and South African armed forces in their transition to democracy. The writer begins the study by outlining the central theoretical and practical challenges associated with designing democratic armed forces and civil-military institutions and end with a brief list of policy recommendations for future efforts geared at democratizing formerly authorisation armed forces ER -