Strategic culture and legitimacy of violent power takeover

Autor: R Miloš Milenković
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Vojno delo. 72:105-123
ISSN: 2683-5703
0042-8426
DOI: 10.5937/vojdelo2004105m
Popis: Strategic culture, in a broader context, can be understood as the relationship between the most important social actors, primarily political and military, concerning force and its use. This paper focuses on the study of the relationship between strategic culture and the violent change of the highest state authorities. The basic hypothesis is that strategic culture, as a part of political and national culture, is one of the sources of the legitimacy for the use of force in the process of violent power takeover. The paper primarily analyzes the following political factors of strategic culture: (1) historical experience, (2) the political system, (3) the beliefs of elites, and (4) military organization and its influence on the decision for the use of force, as well as the choice of method of violent power takeover. An analysis of political factors through an obvious example of the violent power takeover such as the March 27, 1941 coup, shows the connection between strategic culture and the use of force, as well as the legitimacy (legality) of such an act.
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