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Democracy under siege : new military power in Latin America / edited by Augusto Varas ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Title
Democracy under siege : new military power in Latin America / edited by Augusto Varas ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Publication
New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Joint Committee on Latin American Studies.
  • Varas, Augusto.
Description
viii, 222 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Contributions in military studies, 0883-6884 ; no. 84
Uniform Title
Contributions in military studies ; no. 84.
Subject
  • Civil-military relations > Latin America > History > 20th century
  • Latin America > History > 20th century
  • Latin America > Politics and government > 1948-
  • Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Military autonomy and democracy in Latin America / Augusto Varas -- The armed forces of Colombia and Ecuador in comparative perspective / Fernando Bustamante -- The armed forces in Peruvian politics / Marcial Rubïo Correa -- Democratization and military reform in Argentina / Augusto Varas -- The armed forces and Brazil's transition to democracy : The Figueiredo Administration / Eliézer Rizzo de Oliveira -- Autonomy of the military in Chile : from democracy to authoritarianism / Felipe Agüero -- The military in the role of "substitute political party" and redemocratization in Uruguay / Juan Rial -- The modernization of the Mexican armed forces / José Luis Piñeyro -- Armed forces, society, and the people : Cuba and Nicaragua / Raúl Benítez Manaut [and others].
  • The development of military autonomy and corporateness in Central America / Gabriel Aguilera -- The armed forces and democratization in Bolivia, 1982-1986 / Raúl Barrios.
ISBN
0313260346 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^88025105^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library