Latin American Military and Politics in the Twenty-first Century (eBook, ePUB)

A Cross-National Analysis
Redaktion: Kruijt, Dirk; Koonings, Kees

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a comparative analysis of the role of the military in Latin America in domestic politics and governance after 2000.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000622287
• Artikelnr.: 64097658

Autorenporträt

Dirk Kruijt is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at Utrecht University, and currently is a research fellow at the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and at the Centro de Estudios Internacionais (CEI) at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). He has published about military governments and revolutions; insurgency and counterinsurgency; and urban violence and non-state armed actors. His two most recent publications are Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts (2019, Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt, and Dennis Rodgers, eds.), Defence Diplomacy and National Security Strategy: Views from the Global South (2020, Liebenberg, Kruijt and Paranjpe, eds.), and Latin American Guerrilla Movements: Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020, Dirk Kruijt, Eduardo Rey Tristán, and Alberto Martín Álvarez, eds.). Kees Koonings is Professor of Anthropology of Development and Conflict in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Professor of Brazilian Studies at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), University of Amsterdam. His research interests are urban development, citizenship and social exclusion in Latin American cities, conflict and violence in Brazil, Colombia and Central America. Two of his recent publications are Brazil Under the Workers' Party (2014, Fabio de Castro, Kees Koonings, and Marianne Wiesebron, eds.) and Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts (2019, Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt, and Dennis Rodgers, eds.).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
The Latin American Military And Politics in the Twenty
First Century Part 1: Back to the Barracks? 2. Peru
The Armed Forces in Search of a Place in the World 3. Chile
A Democracy with Semi
Autonomous Armed Forces: A History of Civil
Military Relations Since 1990 4. Uruguay
The Military and Politics in the Twenty
First Century: The Chronicle of a Conflictive Relationship 5. Argentina
The Reinvention of the Armed Forces in the Face of the Challenge of De
Militarising the Nation
State 6. Costa Rica
The De
Militarisation of Politics: An Exceptional Story Part 2: Regional Powers under Siege 7. Brazil
The Military and Politics at the End of the 'New Republic' 8. Mexico
The Armed Forces: Revolution, One
Party Rule, and the Uncertainties of Democratisation and Insecurity Part 3: Violent Pluralism 9. Guatemala
The Sword of Damocles: Deficient Civilian Control and Relative Military Autonomy 10. El Salvador
The Armed Forces in Politics: Support and Tutelage 11. Honduras
The Militarisation of Politics or The Politicisation of The Military? The Armed Forces in Times of Political Crisis, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and The Covid
19 Pandemic 12. Colombia
Civil
Military Relations in the Twenty
First Century Part 4: Armoured Bolivarianism 13. Venezuela
The Osmosis Between the Dominant Political Party, the Military and the Public Administration 14. Cuba
The Cuban Armed Forces: From Revolutionaries to Entrepreneurs 15. Nicaragua
The Changing Ethos of the Nicaraguan Army: From a Revolutionary Army to an Advocate of Democracy and, Finally, a Financial Emporium and Silent Accomplice to the New Dictatorship 16. Bolivia
The Armed Forces and the Crisis of the Plurinational State of Bolivia: Neo
Conservatism Versus the Popular Movement in the Twenty
First Century 17. Military Officers for Democracy: The OMIDELAC in the 1970s and 1980s 18. Conclusions
Latin America's New Civil
Military Politics