Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs back issues from April 1996:
US defense policy for the Western Hemisphere: New wine in old bottles, old wine in new bottles, or something completely different?
Apr 01, 1996; ... I. INTRODUCTION THE modern US defense role in the Western Hemisphere is framed by the terms of the 1947 Rio Treaty, the 1948 Charter of the Organization of America States (OAS), and subsequent bilateral and multilateral protocols like that creating the 1982 Regional Security System (RSS) ...
Redefining civil-military relations in Honduras
Apr 01, 1996; ... DURING the last two decades, military rulers have been replaced by democratically elected civilian governments throughout Latin America. Nevertheless, scholars (Mainwaring et al., 1992: 3, 8) contend that nearly all contemporary Latin American polities remain unconsolidated democratic regimes ...
Laying the groundwork: The struggle for civil society in El Salvador
Apr 01, 1996; ... THE armed conflict that wracked El Salvador January 1992 began 1980 to the signing of the Peace Accords in January 1992 began and ended in a struggle over civil society: over what expression civil unresolved struggle over civil society would be allowed to take, over its influence in public debat ...
Spain's economic strategy toward the "nations of its historical community:" The "reconquest" of Latin America?
Apr 01, 1996; ... INTRODUCTION FROM one of the poorest countries in Europe in the late 1950s, Spain emerged as a middle industrial power by the time of the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975. Subsequently, under the leadership of King Juan Carlos I, Franco's successor as chief of state, Spain ...
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
Apr 01, 1996; ... THE recent book by Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, is an extremely comprehensive, ambitious attempt at studying the impact of economic factors on democratic transitions. It also makes some very broad claims, arguing that the models for the ...
Rank and Privilege: The Military and Society in Latin America
Apr 01, 1996; ... Linda Alexander Rodriguez (ed.). RANK AND PRIVILEGE: THE MILITARY AND SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Books, 1994. 239 pp. STUDIES of the Latin America militaries have seldom accorded those institutions the critical analyses they deserve. Such studies have, ...
Peron: Del Exilio Al Poder
Apr 01, 1996; ... Samuel Amaral and Mariano Ben Plotkin (eds.). PERON: DEL EXILIO AL PODER. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Cantaro Editores, 1993. 368 pp. THE decade of Peronist rule in Argentina (194-1955) has been the subject of numerous studies, ranging from the regime's social base to its ideology, and to ...
Land, Power and Poverty / Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America / States and Social Evolution
Apr 01, 1996; ... Charles Brockett. LAND, POWER AND POVERTY. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991. 249 pp. Robert G. Williams. EXPORT AGRICULTURE AND THE CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. 257 pp. Robert G. Williams. STATES AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION. Chapel ...