| ISBN: 978-1-57454-000-0 $27.95 | ||
| 1996/318 pages Distributed for the North-South Center Press | ||
The post-Cold War world has presented Latin American militaries with new, unsettling realities: diminished threats from insurgencies, governments' inability to control the flow of information, the necessity of operating within a global economic system, and a lost ability by weaker states to manipulate external actors. These conditions are placing military institutions under pressure to support efforts at peace negotiation, to accept significant reductions in strength and budgets, to reduce their roles in the political process, and to re-examine their traditional immunities and autonomy. This volume examines all of these factors and offers possible scenarios for regional developments.
"Belong[s] on the shelf of any person who wishes to be considered at all knowlegeable of the role of the military in Latin America."—John T. Fishel, Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement
"Promises to be the most significant book on Latin American military forces in three decades."—Parameters
"This is an excellent addition to the library of civil-military relations, low-intensity conflict, and inter-American affairs. The chapters are richly documented, provide genuinely new insights, and add to our understanding of the military as actors simutaneously pulled in at times contradictory directions."—Gabriel Marcella, Small Wars & Insurgencies