The Soldier and the State in South America: Essays in Civil-Military Relations (Latin American Studies Series (New York, N.Y.).)

Annotation After a long era of military rule, South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from independence in the early 19th century to the current process of democratic consolidation, with special attention to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Notes on the Contributors......Page 10 1 The Soldier and the State in South America: Introduction......Page 12 2 Foreign Influences on the South American Military: Professionalization and Politicization......Page 24 3 War, Society and the State in South America, 1800–70......Page 50 4 The Army as a Modernizing Actor in Brazil, 1870–1930......Page 64 5 Military Governments: Continuity and Change in Twentieth-Century South America......Page 82 6 Forging Military–Technocratic Alliances: The Ibáñez and Pinochet Regimes in Chile......Page 98 7 Mourning and Mistrust in Civil–Military Relations in Post-Dirty War Argentina......Page 120 8 Political Orientations and Factionalism in the Brazilian Armed Forces, 1964–85......Page 138 9 Civil–Military Relations in Post-Authoritarian Chile......Page 162 10 In Permanent Retreat? The Modest Future Role of the Armed Forces in South America......Page 186 References......Page 206 Index......Page 218 After a long era of military rule, the South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from independence in the early nineteenth century to the current process of democratic consolidation, with special attention to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. The detention of General Pinochet in London in October 1998 and its political consequences has dramatically illustrated the fragile nature of current civil-military relations in many South American nations.