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

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

David Pion-Berlin
David Pion-Berlin*
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 147 - 162
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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.