From revolutionary armed forces to revolutionary regimes, empirical analysis of the transformation
Transformace revoluční armády v revoluční režim: empirická analýza
diploma thesis (DEFENDED)
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Author
Advisor
Referee
Aslan, Emil
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences
Discipline
International Security Studies
Department
Department of Security Studies
Date of defense
12. 9. 2019
Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních vědLanguage
English
Grade
Excellent
Keywords (English)
Ideology, Target Selection, Military Establishment, Khomeinism, Marxism, Fanonian, Hezbollah, FARC, PKKThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the role that political ideologies plays in determining the target of insurgency movements. In order to understand how these groups operate, I use Janowitz's military establishment to apply it on the three main revolutionary ideologies of the 20th century, Khomeinism, Marxism/Leninism and Fanonian. Based on these analyses, I hypothesize the three main targets by ideology based on the clarity of the indoctrination and on the level of bureaucracy entailed in the revolutionary texts. I then proceed to compare these theories to three case studies, the Hezbollah, the FARC and finally the PKK. I try to offer an explanation on why religious insurgencies target most of their attacks towards rival factions or why nationalist left-wing groups are mostly focused on attacking security forces. I argue that a well-structured hierarchy, a reliance on the civil society and a clear definition of the political and military targets are quintessential to prevent civilian causalities. But contrarily to most papers on the topic, I find that a strict military discipline has the reversed result that expected. For instance, the FARC and the PKK have such a strict internal code of discipline that it led the members to desert the organizations by thousands and have civilians as...