Soldier and the State in South America

PAUL CAMMACK Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Manchester, CELSO CASTRO Researcher, CPDOC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, KEES KOONING Lecturer in Development Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, FREDERICK M. NUNN Professor of History and International Studies, Portland State University, United States, GEORGE PHILIP Reader in Comparative and Latin American Politics, and Director of the Argentina Programme, London School of Economics, ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN Professor of Anthropology, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, FRANCISCO ROJAS ARAVENA Director of FLACSO-Chile and co-Director of the Program Peace and Security in the Americas, HANS VOGEL Lecturer of Latin American History, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

• Preface Notes on the Contributors The Soldier and the State in South America: Introduction; P.Silva Foreign Influences on the South American Military: Professionalization and Politicization; F.M.Nunn War, Society and the State in the Southern Cone, 1800-1870; H.Vogel The Army as a Modernizing Actor in Brazil, 1870-1930; C.Castro Military Governments: Continuity and Change in Twentieth Century South America; G.Philip Forging Military-Technocratic Alliances: The Ibanez and Pinochet Regimes in Chile; P.Silva Mourning and Mistrust in Civil-Military Relations in Post-dirty War Argentina; A.Robben Political Orientations and Factionalism in the Brazilian Armed Forces, 1964-1985; K.Koonings Civil-Military Relations in Post-Authoritarian Chile; F.R.Aravena In Permanent Retreat?: The Modest Future Role of the Armed Forces in South America; P.Cammack References Index

"...the essays in this volume provide a trenchant, multidisciplinary analysis of the nature and evolution of civil-military relations in South America.The approach is cutting edge." - Choice