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SARAJEVSKÝ ATENTÁT A ZÁKULISIE MEDZINÁRODNEJ POLITIKY

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Vrábel F.

Studia Politica Slovaca: časopis pre politické vedy, najnovšie politické dejiny a medzinárodné vzťahy

2016

vol. 9

issue 2

74 – 85

In addition to profound economic and political reasons, there were a number of immediate events preceding the First World War, which acted like a trigger; one of such momentous events was the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand d'Este and his wife Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg. Even a hundred years later, many of the details of the murder are still shrouded in mystery; the assassination is still a vivid theme surrounded by various rumors that keeps intriguing historiography. One of the theories associated with the tragic Sarajevo events of June 28, 1914, is the role of Russian counterintelligence in the assassination. A new light on the role of Russia or, more precisely, on its involvement in the killings, has been shed by new Russian historiography in a number of studies, which drew on the previously little-known Serbian and Russian sources. Nearly three years following the Sarajevo assassination, a trial was held in Thessaloniki, the then headquarters of the Serbian Army, with members of the clandestine organization "Unification or Death", which ended with the conviction and execution of three of the defendants. Even though the original grounds for the trial were to investigate alleged preparations for the assassination of Prince Alexander in 1916, legal materials partly illuminate the events of Sarajevo in June 1914 and also refer to the alleged involvement of the Russian counterintelligence.

IRAQ's FIRST COUP GOVERNMENT (1936 - 1937)

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Sorby Jr. K.

Asian and African Studies

2011

vol. 20

issue 1

23-45

By the mid-1930s, several officers of the Iraqi army had become actively interested in politics and found that the army's reputation for suppressing the Assyrian rebellion was a political asset. The most influential officers were true nationalists, that is, pan-Arabist, who inspired many of the junior officers. They looked to the examples of neighbouring Turkey and Iran, where military dictatorships were flourishing. Under the leadership of General Bakr Iidqi the army took over the government in the fall of 1936, and opened a period of the army's meddling in politics. A monolithic, totalitarian form of government seemed to offer a more effective means of unifying fragmented countries and modernizing backward societies than did constitutional democracy and the free enterprise system. The authoritarian regime that exerted the most powerful influence on Iraqis was that of Kamal. Many of the army officers and Ottoman-educated civilians could easily imagine themselves in the Turkish president's role. As an Islamic country with a background of similar traditions and problems, Turkey offered a more attainable example than European regimes. Moreover, rapid development, political unity, and greater social discipline were the desiderata of this line of thought. The assassination of Bakr Iidqi marked the collapse of the Bakr Iidqi - Eikmat Sulayman axis and the end of Iraq's first coup government.

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SARAJEVSKÝ ATENTÁT A ZÁKULISIE MEDZINÁRODNEJ POLITIKY

IRAQ's FIRST COUP GOVERNMENT (1936 - 1937)