Philipp H. Fluri Knihy

1. Evolving security concepts and actors: a challenge faced by parliaments. 2. Oversight of national security policy. 3. The main operational components of the security sector. 4. National security under parliamentary scrutiny: conditions and mechanisms.

It is a notorious fact that the evolution of civil-military relations and the security sector reform in South-East Europe has to deal with post-totalitarian and post-conflict challenges. The book examines these issues in the context of the adaptation to combating terrorism and the need to be effective in this struggle, while continuing the democratic reforms in the individual countries. A team of authors from all South-East European states, Western Europe and North America draws a complicated, yet logically evolving picture of the problems in the security sector reform field of the region, and proves the validity of the particular research area. This comprehensive study concludes that the security sector in the region is becoming increasingly mature, but also faces a variety of uncompleted tasks.