Savremeni političkovojni sistemi
Contemporary Political-Military System

Summary/Abstract: The political-military system s in contemporary sovereign states are considered. They can be regarded from two fundamental aspects: a) the role of military factors in political system s; and b) from the point of view of political processes occurring in the military sphere, particularly in military organisation. T he author is primarily concerned with the first aspect. In regard to the influence and power of civil-political, or military-political, structures in a political system, contemporary system s can be divided into two types: the civilocratic and the militocratic types. The gamut between those two-ideal types accommodates all contemporary political-military systems, among which the author distinguishes the dualistic and the condominial. All four schematic types of political-military systems can be appropriate (or inappropriate) to the prevailing social conditions and each of them can be quite legitimate. A series of processes taking place in the contemporary political community ham per the separation of the civil-political and the military sphere, the most prominent among them being "bureaucratisation" and "militarisation". The latter has also been the mainspring of militarism and the military-industrial complex. Lastly, the author makes a survey of types of political-military system according to groups of countries. Civilocratic systems are characteristic for developed bourgeois societies, with certain specific differences. Civilocratic systems of a special type exist also in socialist countries (with the exception of Poland, which is analyzed under a separate heading). Virtually all types of political-military system s occur among the developing countries: from civilocratic (in fewer cases) to dualistic and militocratic (with special reference to Indonesian militocracy). A specific feature of that group of countries is a constant state of transition of their systems from one category to another.

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