Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T18:02:01.840Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Armed Forces and Politics: Gains and Snares in Recent Scholarship

Review products

MILITARY RULE IN LATIN AMERICA. By RemmerKaren. (Boston, Mass.: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Pp. 213. $32.50 cloth.)

THE MILITARY AND SOCIETY IN HAITI. By LaguerreMichel S. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993. Pp. 223. $29.95 cloth.)

THE MILITARY AND DEMOCRACY: THE FUTURE OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA. Edited by GoodmanLouis W., MendelsonJohanna S. R., and RialJuan. (Lexington, Ky.: Lexington Books, 1990. Pp. 326. $45.95 cloth.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

David Pion-Berlin*
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Review Essays
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. Genaro Arriagada, Pinochet: The Politics of Power, translated by Nancy Morris (Boston, Mass.: Unwin Hyman, 1988).

2. Guillermo O'Donnell, “Modernization and Military Coups: The Argentine Case,” in Armies and Politics in Latin America, Revised Edition, edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal and J. Samuel Fitch (New York: Holmes and Meier), 114–18.

3. Mercado Jarrín is quoted in David Pion-Berlin, “Latin American National Security Doctrines: Hard- and Soft-line Themes,” Armed Forces and Society 15 (Spring 1989):417.

4. Ibid., 411–29.

5. See David Pion-Berlin, “Military Autonomy and Emerging Democracies in South America,” Comparative Politics 25 (Oct. 1992):83–102.

6. For other examples of these deficiencies, see Ulf Sundhaussen, “Military Withdrawal from Government Responsibility,” Armed Forces and Society 10 (Summer 1984):543–62; and Samuel E. Finer, “The Retreat to the Barracks,” Third World Quarterly 7 (Jan. 1983):16–30.

7. See Albert O. Hirschman, Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays (New York: Viking, 1986), 176.