POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Proletariat, Cuban Revolution, Morris Janowitz
3 Nov 2018
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Pol201 lecture 5 (6. 2. 2018): military coups and revolutions in the global south. The military in politics: military rue is common in many of the developing world although it is becoming less frequent with the advances of democracy in the last two decades. In the western countries military leaders come to power although they entered politic s as private citizens. In the third world the military has intruded either as a governing body or as a dominant interest group: military rule was one of the defining characteristics of political underdevelopment. The security forces calculate they can nor stand idle while a new group takes over the state: breakthrough coups, this is where the military oust an outdated (authoritarian or traditional) regime, seeking to change society entirely. The coups d" tat becomes a revolutionary break from the past. Intensive inter-elite strife, a general swing of the legitimacy pendulum from incompetent civilian regimes to allegedly efficient, honest, national, and a- political military forces.
