CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Borisenko, Maksim Sergeevich |
|---|---|
| Title | Reasons of Unsuccessful Implementation of Army Reforms in Germany in Late 1990s - Early 2010s |
| Summary | This research contributes to corpus of texts on the post-Cold War military reforms in the NATO states. The paper analyzes problems that Bundeswehr met after the reunification and explores reasons of inability of the German Federal Government to solve those problems through two waves of military reforms. Author uses the combination of the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Multiple Streams Framework to study the causes of problems during the design and adoption of military procurement reforms. In addition, the research combines top-down and principal-agent approaches to explore the reasons for the failure of the reform implementation process. In order to explain what problems, the German Federal Government had to face, the paper utilizes content analysis of the Parliamentary Commissioner's for the Armed Forces reports from 1994 to 2019. Then, using the process tracing method, the author finds out why, both reforms had not achieved significant success in solving problems. As the result author finds out that even though the reforms were well prepared, they became hostages to the political situation. The 2000-2004 reform was not a priority and did not receive support from a key design maker in the conflict process. In addition, the frequent change of the main implementers of the reform led to the fact that the signals of the principal changed, creating difficulties for the agents in implementing the reforms. Defense ministers also changed frequently during the adoption and implementation of the 2010-2014 reform, giving rise to similar problems. |
| Supervisor | Schneider, Carsten |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/borisenko_maksim.pdf |
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