Rethinking Military Politics : : Brazil and the Southern Cone / / Alfred C. Stepan.

The last four years have seen a remarkable resurgence of democracy in the Southern Cone of the Americas. Military regimes have been replaced in Argentina (1983), Uruguay (1985), and Brazil (1985). Despite great interest in these new democracies, the role of the military in the process of transition...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1988
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LISTS OF TABLES AND FIGURES
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1. Military Politics in Three Polity Arenas: Civil Society, Political Society, and the State
  • CHAPTER 2. The Brazilian Intelligence System in Comparative Perspective
  • CHAPTER 3. Abertura: Intra-State Conflicts and the Courtship of Civil Society
  • CHAPTER 4. Military Discourse and Abertura
  • CHAPTER 5. The End of the Regime: Political Society and the Military
  • CHAPTER 6. The Military in Newly Democratic Regimes: The Dimension of Military Contestation
  • CHAPTER 7. The Military in Newly Democratic Regimes: The Dimension of Military Prerogatives
  • CHAPTER 8. Democratic Empowerment and the Military: The Tasks of Civil Society, Political Society, and the State
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX