Andrew G Reiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 388459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew G Reiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew G |
| FAMILY NAME | Reiter |
| SIGNATURE | REITER A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5812-5891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Military Legal Power, Unchecked: Across Latin America, the militarization of public security and judicial systems threatens to deepen repression and impunity. Can civilian courts rein in military just…
During the 2021 presidential campaign in Honduras, winning candidate Xiomara Castro promised to break from the practices of her predecessors that had eroded the country’s democratic institutions an
A New Dawn for Latin American Militaries: Across the region, militarization is on the rise, posing a major threat to democracy and justice. What can be done
On July 26, 2018, thousands of protesters, led by the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, marched in Argentina to oppose President Mauricio Macri's plans to empower the military to engage in domestic policin
Fighting Over Peace: Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strategic Use of Violence
Does Spoiling Work? Assessing the Impact of Spoilers on Civil War Peace Agreements
Scholars and policymakers argue that violent actors – termed ‘spoilers’ – pose a significant threat to civil war peace agreements. Yet existing research, which is overly reliant on single-case studies, has not effectively determined how prevalent spoiling is, or thoroughly examined what its ultimate effects are on peace agreements. This article draws on a newly constructed cross-national dataset of spoiling following 241 civil war peace agreement…
Overcoming Impunity: Pathways to Accountability in Latin America
How and why do democratic governments overcome amnesty laws and cultures of impunity to allow for trials for past human rights violations? To confront this question, we first identify widespread agreement on four key factors associated with the degree of accountability in a new democracy: civil society demand, domestic judicial leadership, the absence of veto players and international pressure. We then outline the interactions among those factors…
Militarized Justice in New Democracies: Explaining the Process of Military Court Reform in Latin America
While a large body of literature emphasizes the importance of judicial reform in new democracies, few scholars have examined the reform of military justice systems in these settings-despite the potential for these courts to compete directly with civilian courts and subvert the rule of law. This article focuses on Latin America to empirically examine how the process of reforming military courts has played out in each democracy following authoritar…
Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call
Journal Article Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call. Get access Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2012. 328 pp. $32.95. Andrew G. Reiter Andrew G. Reiter Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127, Issue 4, Win…
Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide . By Joshua S. Goldstein. (Dutton, 2011.)
Dictating Justice: Human Rights and Military Courts in Latin America
Militaries throughout the world operate their own courts to prosecute military crimes, such as insubordination, that are not part of civilian legal codes. Latin American militaries traditionally have extended this hermetic justice system to cover all crimes committed by their personnel, allowing the institution to sit in judgment of its own actions and escape punishment for human rights violations. This parallel legal system erodes the principle …
Taking Stock: Transitional Justice and Market Effects in Latin America
The relationship between transitional justice and economic development has recently attracted the attention of academics and policymakers. An emerging literature highlights the tension between the forward-looking economic goals of growth, development, and investment and backward-looking trials and truth commissions. Current research focuses on the impact transitional justice choices may have on a state's ability to compete for international assis…
The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and Democracy
Evidence from the Transitional Justice Data Base reveals which transitional justice mechanisms and combinations of mechanisms positively or negatively affect human rights and democracy. This article demonstrates that specific combinations of mechanisms—trials and amnesties; and trials, amnesties, and truth commissions—generate improvements in those two political goals. The findings support a justice balance approach to transitional justice: trial…
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
Most studies of truth commissions assert their positive role in improving human rights. A first wave of research made these claims based on qualitative analysis of a single truth commission or a small number of cases. Thirty years of experience with truth commissions and dozens of examples allow cross-national statistical studies to assess these findings. Two recent studies undertake that project. Their findings, which are summarized in this arti…
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset
This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970-2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article summarizes three important contributions made by the dataset. First, it includes five transitional justice mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration policies), allowing scholars to avoid man…
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
Most studies of truth commissions assert their positive role in improving human rights. A first wave of research made these claims based on qualitative analysis of a single truth commission or a small number of cases. Thirty years of experience with truth commissions and dozens of examples allow cross-national statistical studies to assess these findings. Two recent studies undertake that project. Their findings, which are summarized in this arti…
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset
This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970-2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article summarizes three important contributions made by the dataset. First, it includes five transitional justice mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration policies), allowing scholars to avoid man…
Does Spoiling Work? Assessing the Impact of Spoilers on Civil War Peace Agreements
Scholars and policymakers argue that violent actors – termed ‘spoilers’ – pose a significant threat to civil war peace agreements. Yet existing research, which is overly reliant on single-case studies, has not effectively determined how prevalent spoiling is, or thoroughly examined what its ultimate effects are on peace agreements. This article draws on a newly constructed cross-national dataset of spoiling following 241 civil war peace agreement…
Overcoming Impunity: Pathways to Accountability in Latin America
How and why do democratic governments overcome amnesty laws and cultures of impunity to allow for trials for past human rights violations? To confront this question, we first identify widespread agreement on four key factors associated with the degree of accountability in a new democracy: civil society demand, domestic judicial leadership, the absence of veto players and international pressure. We then outline the interactions among those factors…
Dictating Justice: Human Rights and Military Courts in Latin America
Militaries throughout the world operate their own courts to prosecute military crimes, such as insubordination, that are not part of civilian legal codes. Latin American militaries traditionally have extended this hermetic justice system to cover all crimes committed by their personnel, allowing the institution to sit in judgment of its own actions and escape punishment for human rights violations. This parallel legal system erodes the principle …
Militarized Justice in New Democracies: Explaining the Process of Military Court Reform in Latin America
While a large body of literature emphasizes the importance of judicial reform in new democracies, few scholars have examined the reform of military justice systems in these settings-despite the potential for these courts to compete directly with civilian courts and subvert the rule of law. This article focuses on Latin America to empirically examine how the process of reforming military courts has played out in each democracy following authoritar…
Taking Stock: Transitional Justice and Market Effects in Latin America
The relationship between transitional justice and economic development has recently attracted the attention of academics and policymakers. An emerging literature highlights the tension between the forward-looking economic goals of growth, development, and investment and backward-looking trials and truth commissions. Current research focuses on the impact transitional justice choices may have on a state's ability to compete for international assis…
The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and Democracy
Evidence from the Transitional Justice Data Base reveals which transitional justice mechanisms and combinations of mechanisms positively or negatively affect human rights and democracy. This article demonstrates that specific combinations of mechanisms—trials and amnesties; and trials, amnesties, and truth commissions—generate improvements in those two political goals. The findings support a justice balance approach to transitional justice: trial…
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
Most studies of truth commissions assert their positive role in improving human rights. A first wave of research made these claims based on qualitative analysis of a single truth commission or a small number of cases. Thirty years of experience with truth commissions and dozens of examples allow cross-national statistical studies to assess these findings. Two recent studies undertake that project. Their findings, which are summarized in this arti…
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset
This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970-2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article summarizes three important contributions made by the dataset. First, it includes five transitional justice mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration policies), allowing scholars to avoid man…
Taking Stock: Transitional Justice and Market Effects in Latin America
The relationship between transitional justice and economic development has recently attracted the attention of academics and policymakers. An emerging literature highlights the tension between the forward-looking economic goals of growth, development, and investment and backward-looking trials and truth commissions. Current research focuses on the impact transitional justice choices may have on a state's ability to compete for international assis…
Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call
Journal Article Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call. Get access Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2012. 328 pp. $32.95. Andrew G. Reiter Andrew G. Reiter Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127, Issue 4, Win…
Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide . By Joshua S. Goldstein. (Dutton, 2011.)
Dictating Justice: Human Rights and Military Courts in Latin America
Militaries throughout the world operate their own courts to prosecute military crimes, such as insubordination, that are not part of civilian legal codes. Latin American militaries traditionally have extended this hermetic justice system to cover all crimes committed by their personnel, allowing the institution to sit in judgment of its own actions and escape punishment for human rights violations. This parallel legal system erodes the principle …
Militarized Justice in New Democracies: Explaining the Process of Military Court Reform in Latin America
While a large body of literature emphasizes the importance of judicial reform in new democracies, few scholars have examined the reform of military justice systems in these settings-despite the potential for these courts to compete directly with civilian courts and subvert the rule of law. This article focuses on Latin America to empirically examine how the process of reforming military courts has played out in each democracy following authoritar…
Overcoming Impunity: Pathways to Accountability in Latin America
How and why do democratic governments overcome amnesty laws and cultures of impunity to allow for trials for past human rights violations? To confront this question, we first identify widespread agreement on four key factors associated with the degree of accountability in a new democracy: civil society demand, domestic judicial leadership, the absence of veto players and international pressure. We then outline the interactions among those factors…
Does Spoiling Work? Assessing the Impact of Spoilers on Civil War Peace Agreements
Scholars and policymakers argue that violent actors – termed ‘spoilers’ – pose a significant threat to civil war peace agreements. Yet existing research, which is overly reliant on single-case studies, has not effectively determined how prevalent spoiling is, or thoroughly examined what its ultimate effects are on peace agreements. This article draws on a newly constructed cross-national dataset of spoiling following 241 civil war peace agreement…
Fighting Over Peace: Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strategic Use of Violence
A New Dawn for Latin American Militaries: Across the region, militarization is on the rise, posing a major threat to democracy and justice. What can be done
On July 26, 2018, thousands of protesters, led by the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, marched in Argentina to oppose President Mauricio Macri's plans to empower the military to engage in domestic policin
Military Legal Power, Unchecked: Across Latin America, the militarization of public security and judicial systems threatens to deepen repression and impunity. Can civilian courts rein in military just…
During the 2021 presidential campaign in Honduras, winning candidate Xiomara Castro promised to break from the practices of her predecessors that had eroded the country’s democratic institutions an
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