Detailed Information on Publication Record
2021
The Czech Republic : The Military and Politics
KŘÍŽ, Zdeněk and Oldřich KRPECBasic information
Original name
The Czech Republic : The Military and Politics
Authors
KŘÍŽ, Zdeněk (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Oldřich KRPEC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Oxford, Oxford Research Encyclopedias of Politics, p. 1-20, 20 pp. 2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize
Field of Study
50601 Political science
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
electronic version available online
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/21:00121195
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
ISBN
978-0-19-022863-7
Keywords in English
Czech Republic; military; subjective civilian control; purges; antimilitarism; military in politics
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 7/3/2022 11:08, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Abstract
V originále
The states that existed historically in what is now the Czech Republic were characterized by frequent changes of political regime, and these changes were substantially reflected in the military. Every political regime successfully avoided a military putsch despite that regime changes and international crises opened several windows of opportunity for considering open military interference (including military coups) in politics. All of the political regimes ruling in the Czech lands sought to make the military a mirror of the civilian state and society, applying what Samuel Huntington calls subjective civilian control. Military institutions were adapted to the ruling political regime as much as possible with the aim of securing their political loyalty. Values typical of each regime were implemented in the military. In the period of 1918–1938, for example, soldiers were expected to be politically conscious citizens of a democratic state. After 1948, the communist regime devoted considerable effort to transforming soldiers into obedient members of the socialist society, faithful to Marxism-Leninism and the Soviet Union. Later on, after 1989, the civic concept of the military was again emphasized, with the identification of soldiers with democratic and patriotic values considered an ideal. All the political regimes operating on the territory of today’s Czech Republic were successful in that the military as an institution has not interfered in politics and has been consistently loyal.
Links
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