Coup d'etat as a military-political phenomenon

Abstract

This analysis has been caused by a scientific need that the meaning of coup d'etat as the military-political phenomenon should be precisely clarified and established, and thus made its distinction in comparison with the putch or a political revolution. This distinction contributes to the reduction of possibilities for the identification and substitution of these concepts both in the scientific military-political and in the general vocabulary. A particular scientific challenge for the author was the fact that this phenomenon has not been sufficiently researched, i.e. that it has been underestimated as a subject of our scientific interest. This work is therefore one of the rare ones, and also the first one having a scientific-study character, published on this topic in our periodicals.

Nastanak ovog rada uslovila je potreba da se državni udar, kao vojno-politički fenomen, u nauci precizno pojmovno odredi i pojasni, i time distancira od srodnih violentnih fenomena kao što su puč i politička revolucija, čime se smanjuju mogućnosti za poistovećivanje i zamenjivanje tih pojmova, kako u naučnom vojno-političkom, tako i u kolokvijalnom vokabularu. Poseban naučni izazov za autora bila je činjenica o nedovoljnoj istraženosti tog fenomena, odnosno njegovom zapostavljanju kao predmeta naučnog interesa u nas. Ovaj rad ima naučno- studijski karakter i jedan je od prvih koji se na tu temu objavljuje u našim časopisima.