In Rethinking Military Politics the author takes a new look at themes raised in his earlier work on the state, the breakdown of democracy, and the military. The reader of this book will gain a fresh understanding of new democracies and democratic movements throughout the world and their attempts to understand and control to military. An earlier version of this book has been a controversial best seller in Brazil.
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Alfred Stepan ... now presents what is likely to become a classic work of regime translation and the obstacles facing civilian rule in the Southern Cone. To do justice to the complexity and wealth of data and analysis presented in Rethinking Military Politicswould require more space than is available for this brief review. -- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
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Quite a good book. Most writers who examined the subject in the 80s (i.e. Guillermo O'Donnell) focused purely on macroeconomic factors that led to coups, and on examining the strategies of agro-export elites versus ISI industrialists that led to political gridlock and thus the coup d'etat. Curiously, few of them deeply examined the military, which is obviously a major component of a military coup.Stepan begins to address this defect in the literature, and places the Brazilian military in its historical context in a way often underplayed or ignored by others. Particularly useful is his formulation of the "moderator model" as explaining the inclination of the Brazilian military to intervene in politics, and the tendency by all sectors of society to view this as legitimate. This lays a foundation for explaining not only right wing coups, but left wing coups such as Portugal. Absolutely necessary for the student of civil-military relations.
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National Security Council, General Staff, Minister of Defense, Latin American, Ernesto Geisel, Minister of the Army, General Golbery, Ministry of Defense, Escola Superior de Guerra, President Geisel, Tancredo Neves, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Complementos da Doutrina, Dominican Republic, Jornal da Tarde, New Republic, United States, Juan Linz, Max Weber, Orlando Geisel, President Sarney, Sdo Paulo, Second Army, Segunda Guerra New!
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THE TITLE of this chapter is certainly ponderous, possibly pompous, but unfortunately necessary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Security Council, General Staff, Minister of Defense, Latin American, Ernesto Geisel, Minister of the Army, General Golbery, Ministry of Defense, Escola Superior de Guerra, President Geisel, Tancredo Neves, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Complementos da Doutrina, Dominican Republic, Jornal da Tarde, New Republic, United States, Juan Linz, Max Weber, Orlando Geisel, President Sarney, Sdo Paulo, Second Army, Segunda Guerra New!
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- Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation by Alfred Stepan on 9 pages
- Bringing the State Back In by Peter B. Evans in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes by Professor Juan J. Linz in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Vol. 4: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies by Guillermo O'Donnell in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Politics As a Vocation by M. Weber in Front Matter, page 12, and Back Matter
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- Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe by Professor Juan J. Linz on 11 pages
- Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe by Juan J. Linz on 10 pages
- Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives by David (ed.) Pion-Berlin on 8 pages
- Confronting Past Human Rights Violations (Cass Series on Peacekeeping) by Chandra Lekha Sriram on 8 pages
- The Transition to Democracy in Latin America: The Role of the Military by Bruce W. Farcau on 6 pages
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