Original title: "The power of the General: Does increased militarisation lead to increased authoritarianism in Southern Africa?"
Translated title: The power of the General: Which factors influence the level of authoritarianism in the Southern African context?
Authors: Wordsworth, Ronan Peter ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Doboš, Bohumil (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2022
Language: eng
Abstract: 1 Abstract This paper sets out to answer the central question on the causes of authoritarianism within the regional context of Southern Africa. The hypothesises of the article are that there are several factors that contribute to authoritarian levels within the South African Development Community (SADC). The research aims to adequately define the concept of authoritarianism, and then investigate the relationship between authoritarianism and five different indicators. The links are explored for level of authoritarianism against the level of military expenditure of the government, the threat perception of the government, whether there is a single dominant-party system of government, whether the country has a history of coup d'états, and finally, the dominant party in the civil-military relations. This leads to an investigation into the role that the military plays within authoritarian regimes, and which factors lead to increased authoritarianism. Due to the unique post-colonial context whereby many liberation movements and fighters were then installed as leaders of the country, there is a 'special relationship' between many leaders in the Southern African Development Community and the respective military and defence leadership and this paper will seek to explore these links. It is hypothesised that...
Keywords: Authoritarianism; Civil-military relations; Defence spending; Democratisation; Dominant-party states; Militarisation; Military expenditure; SADC; Southern Africa; Threat Perception; autoritářství; jižní Afrika; obranné výdaje

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/176824

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