Contents

SESSION E1 — Armed Forc​​es and Political Transformations

José Paulo Berger 

Portuguese Military Engineers and Politics

Thean Potgieter  

   South Africa, Portugal and the Politics of Naval Acquisitions D​uring the Nineteen Seventies ​​

SESSION E2 —​ Political Crisis and Military Interventions - The Balkans

Daniela Șișcanu 

   Bessarabia’s Transition from Being a Part of Empire to National Independence. The Role of the Romanian Army in the Process of the Unification of Bessarabia  with Romania, 1918 

Ion Rîşnoveanu 

   The Role of The Military in Repatriation of the Future King Carol II. 6 June 1930​

SESSION E3 — Democratic Tr​​ansitions

Prokop Tomek 

   Submission of the Communist Army to the New Democratic Regime in Czechoslovakia​

Petr Janoušek 

   Eyes on the West! The Transformation in the Czechoslovak Military’s Foreign Orientation in 1989-1992 ​

M. Christian Ortner 

   The Employment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Suppression ​of Uprising in the Civil and Military Fields in 1918 ​

SESSION F1 — War and Regime​​ Change

Winfried Heinemann 

   Two Coups: 20 July 1944 in Germany and 25 April 1974 in Portugal​​

Flavio Carbone 

   The Fall of Fascism: When the Carabinieri Arrested the Duce on 25 July 1943/5 September 2024​

Benny Michelsohn 

   Two Jewish Officers Who Contributed to the Return of the French 3rd Republic, ​June–August 1944​

SESSION F2 — Cold War C​​risis

Davide Borsani 

   The Path to Rehabilitation, The Italian Navy’s Role in the Aftermath of ​World War II​

Matej Medvecký & Miloslav Čaplovič 

   The Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 – A Slovak Perspective​​

Paolo Formiconi

   Rejecting the Wrong Cause. Fascist Plots and Democratic Loyalty in the Italian ​Military Institutions. 1961-1981 ​

SESSION F3 — Humanitary Interventio​​​ns

Enrico Magnani 

   The UN Mission in Namibia, the Success of the Transition​ ​

Allon Klebanoff  

   Боже, Царя храни! (God Save the Tsar!)​

SESSION G1 — PhD Candidates Wo​​​rkshop 2

Aby Tine  

   Le Rôle des Militaires dans les Transitions Politiques au Burkina Faso: ​Cas de Tomas Sankara​

Daniel Mata Roque  

   Lieutenant Suarez: a Female War Veteran in the Party Politics of Redemocratization ​in Brazil (1945-1947)​

SESSION G2 — Pos​t-War Military Transitions

David Alaric Searle   

   Defeated but Still a Factor?  The Role of German Armed Forces in the Transition ​from War to Peace, 1919 -1923​

Martin Rink 

   West Germany’s Army Facing Structural Reforms in an Era of Global Upheaval, ​1987 -1994​

Christiaan van der Spek 

   The absence of Coups d’Etat. The Case of the Netherlands​​​

SESSION G3 —​​​ Portuguese Transition to Democracy

Pedro de Avillez 

   Portuguese April 25th, 1974, Military Coup​​

Joana de Matos Tornada 

   16th March 1974. A Coup that Wasn’t a Coup on the Eve of the Portuguese ​Democratic Revolution According to its Investigation Process​

João José Brandão Ferreira 

   A Historical Perspective on Military Interventions in Portugal​​

SESSION H1 — Portugue​se Decolonization and Military Crisis

Pedro Aires Oliveira 

   Scapegoats of an aborted decolonization? The Portuguese military in East Timor ​in 1974 -75​

SESSION H2 —​ New Times, New Visions of the Military

David García Hernán

   The Enlightened Navy and the Origins of Spanish Liberalism​​

Alberto Rico Sánchez 

   The First International Mission of The Civil Guard: Portugal, 1847​ ​

Israel Blajberg 

   Findings on Genealogy of Fonseca Family and the Role of Marshal Deodoro ​in the Fall of Monarchy in Brazil, 1889​

SESSION I​​​1 — Military Interventions and Democratization

Abel Esterhuyse 

   The Role of the Military in Political Transitions: The Ending of the Cold War ​and South African Democratisation​

SESSION I2 —​​ Military Interventions and New Beginings

José Romero 

   General Arsenio Martínez de Campos and the Pronunciamiento in Sagunto ​(29 De Diciembre de 1874)​

Daniel Ayiotis 

   The Role of the National Army in the Political Transition of Ireland, 1922 -19​24​​

Virginie Wanyaka Bonguen O. 

   L’Afrique et les coups de bottes postindépendants : Revisitation, enjeux, et analyse ​d’un phénomène politico-militaire

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