| Abstract [eng] |
Regimes During the State of War, Enhanced Protection and the State of Emergency in Interwar Lithuania In the Master's thesis " Regimes During the State of War, Enhanced Protection and the State of Emergency in Interwar Lithuania " the aim is to analyze the types of emergency regimes, that existed in Lithuania during the interwar period. Another aim is to present the consequences these regimes produced. The paper presents the following regimes: state of war and enhanced protection and sets to describe and compare the various regimes during intewar period. Master‘s thesis has a clear goal to define and grasp various concepts of various states of exception and to point out the interaction between theoretical and practical notions of the state of emergency. The first part of the work presents the historical overview of the interwar period in Lithuania, revealing the political situation and geopolitical circumstances. Leaning upon the works of historians and scientific material, highlighted are the events and reasons for the introduction of states of emergency in the interwar Lithuania. The first part is divided into four sections, which help to systematically and broadly look at the whole set of circumstances, which created the preconditions for emergency law measures to become a phenomenon that accompanied the Republic of Lithuania throughout the interwar period. The second part focuses on states of exception as a category studied by the science of legal theory. Since the various states of emergency is the consequence of various circumstances, the aim is to broaden the theoretical concepts, institutes and attitudes from the perspective of emergency regimes, while simultaneously seeking answers to the question: what is a state of exception? The author, based on the scientific sources legal theory, compares some of the concepts of the state of exception and presents them in a doctrinal sense. The third part gives a detailed overview of the emergency regimes operating during the interwar period in the Republic of Lithuania. Different sources and provisions of different laws are analyzed. It reveals, how the constantly implemented state of war became a huge part of the day to day life, which influenced the whole country's society, legal environment and political situation. The third part also raises the question of whether the permanent status of state of war was a precondition for preventing democratic governance and political pluralism from developing in the country. The problems of social rights and freedoms enshrined in the constitutions, which were diminished for a long time during the state of war, are emphasized. It also reveals the problematic aspects of the hazardous practice of law enforcement during the military regime period. The fourth part of the work compares the exceptional legal regimes of modern times and interwar Lithuania. The aim is to find common points of contact between both periods, as well as distinguishing novelties of the modern times. An attempt is made to find logical interfaces between two periods and it it sought to explain the differences between regulation emergency regimes. A lot of attention is paid to showing how law enforcement practices have changed since the interwar period up to the present time through the theoretical provisions of the Law on Emergency Situations and Law on the State of war. |
