Military Intervention in Politics: A Third World Perspective

Abstract

Military intervention has become a common characteristic in developing countries. Political culture of developing countries and nature give the space for military intervention. During the cold war, in the time of political crisis military was in the front line as a political instrument. Existing of various problems in Third World countries after their independent attract the military greatly to intervene. But these kind of intervention become withdrawal dramatically. For that, role of military in politics in developing countries is counted vastly. As a developing country, Bangladesh has also experienced the military coups and ruled by military persons. Military coups were occurred mainly for political crisis. We have studied and found that civilian authority giving the space to military to intervene. For this paper we have collected information from secondary data sources.