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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CIVILIAN AND THE MILITARY SECTORS
Siniša Tatalović
; Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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The relations between the civil and military sector in SFRY greatly affected its development and survival as well as its collapse. Within the political system of the former Yugoslavia, the military secured a certain degree of independence, which later evolved into a power per se, in any moment ready to impose its own interest (when and if jeopardized) as the general public interest. Due to such status of the military, the political system of SFRY was deformed and, to a certain extent continually endangered by such autonomous functioning of the military. This sense of imperilment was the more intensive the deeper the divisions among certain social groups and interests, the bitter the struggles and conflicts along economic, national and ideological divide, the less prominent the role of the communist party. Such situations encouraged and facilitated the process of the transformation of the military (particularly its top echelon) into a “neutral force” and - formally and factually - into the key political institution on federal level. Among the several basic models of the relations between the civil and the military sector, the one in SFRY meant that the military was a factor in political decision-making and the factor in certain crises. This required a certain degree of political clout on the part of the military. This clout, required for its meddling into politics, was based on the military and political position of the country, the military communist party organization, the ownership i.e. financial resources, the existence of the external and “internal” enemies, the impotence of civil institutions in certain periods and the charisma of individual military officers.
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105731
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Datum izdavanja:
18.6.1997.
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