Military in South American Politics

George Philip was Emeritus Professor of Comparative and Latin American Politics at the LSE. In a distinguished academic career that spanned over 40 years, he became one of the leading Latin Americanists of his generation. Philip’s academic writings addressed key issues of Latin American politics and political economy. He introduced several generations of both undergraduate and postgraduate students to the politics of Latin America. He had the talent to make the complex politics of the region understandable and compelling for an audience that may have no previous knowledge of it.

• 1. Modernisation, Mass Society theory and the Middle Class Military 2. Reactions against “Modernisation”; Dependency, Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and the State 3. The Military Institution; Some Comparisons from Central America and the Caribbean 4. From Status to Institution; Early Professionalisation and its Consequences 5. The Military Institution in Politics; The First Wave 6. Military Politics in the Post-War Decades 7. South American Military Institutions; A View Inside 8. Dilemmas of Military Regimes 9. The Brazilian Regimes since 1964 10. Military Governments and Military Failures in Argentina 11. Military Radicalism and After in Peru 12. Chile under Pinochet 13. Some Other Cases; Bolivia, Ecuador and Uruguay 14. The Military in South American Politics

Review of the first publication: “It is by an intelligent and surprisingly knowledgeable author, who with this book establishes himself in the front rank of students of the Latin American military.”— Martin C. Needler, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 3