Co-ordinator: David Kuehn, MA, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Papers presented at the 10th ERGOMAS conference in Stockholm, June 22-26, 2009.
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• Constantine P. Danopoulos ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Sylvia, Ronald D.(San Jose State University, USA). The Military and its role in Albania's democratisation
• Riaz Ahmed Sheikh ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Institute of Business & Technology (Biztek), Pakistan). General Musharraf's Military Coup and Democratic Destruction in Pakistan
• Alexandre Lambert ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (School for International Training, Switzerland). Implementation of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in the OSCE region: Lessons Learned from the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security
• Sabine Mannitz ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) Germany). Convergences and Divergences in Democratic Rationales of Soldiering in Europe
• David Kuehn ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (University of Heidelberg, Institute of Political Science, Germany). Is there a Method (or a Concept or a Theory) to the Madness? Examining the Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Realities of Research on Civilian Control of the Military

The working group on Democratic Control of the Armed Forces was founded at the biennial ERGOMAS conference in Stockholm, 1998. The initiator was Stefan Sarvas (MoD of the Czech Republic, Research Department). 4 papers were presented and discussed. In April 1999, the working group had an interim meeting at the Civil-military Relations conference organized by Steve Webber and Kerry Longhurst of the University of Birmingham. As Stefan Sarvas resigned as co-ordinator of the working group in the summer of 1999, the board of ERGOMAS decided to replace him with Hans Born (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces). Since June 2009, David Kuehn, University of Heidelberg, is the new co-ordinator of the working group.

Another interim meeting of the working group took place at the International Security Forum conference in Geneva, November 2000. 25 people attended the meeting and 6 papers, prepared by ERGOMAS members, were presented and discussed. In December 2000, during the biennial conference of ERGOMAS in Prague, the working group organized two panels. In total, 12 papers were presented. In addition, the working group launched a research project on Models of Democratic Control of the Armed Forces: A Multi-country comparing effective practices of democratic control during the Prague conference.