Soldier and the State in South America

After a long era of military rule, the South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from independence in the early nineteenth century to the current process of democratic consolidation, with special attention to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru.

"...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

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.