The military covenant, contractual relations, and social cohesion in democracies: Estonia as an exploratory case study/
Kairi Kasearu, Eleri Lillemae and Eyal Ben-Ari
- 2023
The military covenant is a set of morally binding expectations marking the exchange between military, society, and the state. Its base is the military's duality: like other large public institutions delivering services and its uniqueness in holding the monopoly over the use of legitimate organized state violence.