La cuestión militar en cuestión
Author : Raúl Barrios Morón
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Civil-military relations
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Repensando la Cuestión Militar
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 1995
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ISBN : 9789507940224
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Cuestión militar o cuestión nacional ?.
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1985
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For la Patria
Author : Brian Loveman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0585282072
Book Description
Defending 'la patria,' or 'homeland,' is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defense and security. Latin American civil-military relations and the role of the armed forces in politics, like those of all modern nation-states, are framed by constitutional and legal norms specifying the formal relationships between the armed forces and the rest of society. In actuality, they are also the result of expectations, attitudes, values, and practices evolved over centuries-integral aspects of national political cultures. Military institutions in each Latin American nation have resulted from that country's own blend of local and imported influences, developing a distinctive pattern of civil-military relations as defender of the fatherland and guarantor of security and order. Written by Latin American specialist Brian Loveman, For la Patria includes tables, maps, photographs, and a glossary that will assist the student in better understanding the military's intervention in politics in Latin America. This new text will give students a thorough and accessible history of Latin American armed forces and their actions in Latin American politics from colonial times to the present.
Paper Liberals
Author : David Ortiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313096627
Book Description
The death of General Francisco Franco in November of 1975 ended thirty-six years of fascist-style dictatorship in Spain. The subsequent transition to liberal parliamentary government was remarkably smooth, particularly when compared to the recent difficulties experienced by other states, such as the former Soviet Republics and Eastern Europe. Ortiz traces Spain's success back to the development of a liberal tradition and a public sphere in the last decades of the 19th century during the Restoration period. He uses this era as a test case to demonstrate that liberal practices can develop even within a political situation where state institutions and the social infrastructure do not necessarily support them. Paper Liberals dispels the notion that Western Europe ends at the Pyrenees and argues instead that, while on the periphery, Spain should not be excluded from the mainstream of European history. Clarifying a period in contemporary Spanish history that has been largely misunderstood, this study underscores the importance of the Spanish example as a comparative model to the countries customarily thought of as the European center (Britain, France, and Germany). Ortiz examines the formation and expansion of liberal political culture during the Regency of Maria Christina from 1885 to 1902, and he details the pivotal role of the Spanish press, which dominated the public sphere of Regency Spain, as the vehicle for this remarkable transformation.
The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America
Author : John Samuel Fitch
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801859182
Book Description
The book tackles the subject of the military and politics in Latin America from a broad historical perspective, drawing on literature in the field and other information based on personal interviews with officers.
The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes
Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804767910
Book Description
The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In this region, disaffection with democracy, political parties, and legislatures has spread to an alarming degree. Many presidents have been forced from office, and many traditional parties have fallen by the wayside. These five countries have the potential to be negative examples in a region that has historically had strong demonstration and diffusion effects in terms of regime changes. "The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes" addresses an important question for Latin America as well as other parts of the world: Why does representation sometimes fail to work?
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Publisher : Religacion Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
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Peaceworks
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : International relations
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Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1997-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801857942
Book Description
An in-depth analysis of the struggle to consolidate new and fragile democracies—available in two paperback volumes for course use. The global trend that Samuel P. Huntington has dubbed the "third wave" of democratization has seen more than 60 countries experience democratic transitions since 1974. While these countries have succeeded in bringing down authoritarian regimes and replacing them with freely elected governments, few of them can as yet be considered stable democracies. Most remain engaged in the struggle to consolidate their new and fragile democratic institutions. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges that they face. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies is available in two paperback volumes, each introduced by the editors and organized for convenient course use. The first paperback volume, Themes and Perspectives, addresses issues of institutional design, civil-military relations, civil society, and economic development. It brings together some of the world's foremost scholars of democratization, including Robert A. Dahl, Samuel P. Huntington, Juan J. Linz, Guillermo O'Donnell, Adam Przeworski, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Alfred Stepan. The second paperback volume, Regional Challenges, focuses on developments in Southern Europe, Latin America, Russia, and East Asia, particularly Taiwan and China. It contains essays by leading regional experts, including Yun-han Chu, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thomas B. Gold, Michael McFaul, Andrew J. Nathan, and Hung-mao Tien.
