Občanské vedení ozbrojených sil v teorii a české praxi

This paper deals with the issue of the civil and democratic control (civil governance) of the armed forces from the perspective of constitutional law and the state theory. Firstly, the paper explains the importance of studying civil-military relations for the constitutional democracies and tries to find the proper Czech term for the concept of civil and democratic control of the armed forces (i.e. civil governance). In the first part, the paper interprets the sole term of “armed forces” in view of public international law, Czech constitutional and administrative law as well as military theory. The second part uses Ota Weinberger’s theory of normative institutionalism for the theoretical analysis of the civil and democratic control concept. After that, it briefly describes the Huntington’s theory of subjective and objective model of civil control and in more detail characterizes the concrete constitutional aspects of the civil and democratic control. The third part shows the deficiencies in the normative and institutional implementation of the civil and democratic control in the Czech Republic and offers some possible changes de constitutione et lege ferenda.