Daniel Gunnar Kressel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4189735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Gunnar Kressel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Gunnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Kressel |
| SIGNATURE | KRESSEL D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9239-6967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 1945–1991
Hispanic Technocracy explores the emergence, zenith, and demise of a distinctive post-fascist school of thought that materialized as state ideology during the Cold War in three military regimes: Francisco Franco's Spain (1939–1975), Juan Carlos Onganía's Argentina (1966–1973), and Augusto Pinochet's Chile (1973–1988). In this intellectual and cultural history, Daniel Gunnar Kressel examines how Francoist Spain replaced its fascist ideology with a…
“La ética judeocristiana”: On Latin America’s Right-Wing Populists and their Support of Israel during the Gaza War
Since October 7, 2023, Latin America’s so-called “New Right” politicians have been avidly supporting the Israeli government during its war in the Gaza Strip, to the extent of traveling to Jerusalem and paying tribute to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This article explores how and why this avid pro-Israeli activism came about, and how it differs from the attitudes of contemporary right-wing European leaders as well as from the ant…
Fascists and Gentlemen? The Last Dictatorship 's Vexed Relationship with Argentinian Fascism (‘Nacionalismo’)
While there is a consensus among historians that Argentina's Last Dictatorship was one of the most radically right-wing regimes in modern Latin American history, the question of whether this regime's ideology was informed by fascist ideology has remained, to a large extent, open. This article explores the relationship between the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (PRN) and Argentina's fascist movement, self-labeled the ‘nacionalistas’. It begins…
Introduction: How Augusto Pinochet’s Constitution Came into Existence and How it Endured until 2022
For the past forty-two years Chile has been governed according to the infamous 1980 Constitution. Bequeathed to the country by its military dictator Augusto Pinochet, this text was originally designed to sustain an infinite de facto dictatorship in Chile. While this did not happen, and despite having been repeatedly amended since 1989, the 1980 Constitution is still considered an illegitimate text by most Chileans, as the 2020 Chilean national pl…
‘Los Duros’: The Neo-Fascist Opposition to Chile’s 1980 Constitution, and its Francoist Connections
The article explores the activity of Chile’s unique neo-fascist movement from the early 1970s until 1990. Whereas Jaime Guzmán and his ideological group (the gremialistas) believed that the military dictatorship should conclude with the creation of a protected parliamentary democracy, the so-called hardliners thought that the dictatorship’s mission was to institute a fascist-corporatist regime in Chile. First, the article shows that while Guzmán …
T he “A rgentine F ranco ”: The Regime of Juan Carlos Onganía and Its Ideological Dialogue with Francoist Spain (1966–1970)
The article examines the ideological character of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship by exploring its ties and dialogue with Francisco Franco's Spain. Known as the “Argentine Revolution,” Onganía's regime (1966-70) was, the article shows, one of the first Cold War Latin American dictatorship to overtly use Francoist ideology as its point of reference. While building on the conventional wisdom that the legacies of the Spanish Civil War informed ri…
Getting off the Tiger”: The Spanish Transitional Model and its Influence on the Democratic Transitions in Argentina and Chile, 1977–1990
The article explains how the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy, as a “model” for a political reform devoid of transitional justice, informed the Argentine and Chilean democratic transition of the 1980s. It indicates that during the mid-1980s, Spanish figures promoted Spain’s “pacted transition” in Latin America within particular intellectual networks. While ultimately failing to impact the Argentine democratisation, the Spanish di…
By the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination
Notes1. See- Jordi Gracia García, La resistencia silenciosa: fascismo y cultura en España (Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2004)
The Hispanic Community of Nations: The Spanish-Argentine nexus and the imagining of a Hispanic Cold War bloc
The article explores how a network of Spanish and Argentine fascist intellectuals configured a supranational citizenship for Latin America during the Cold War years, in an attempt to unite the Spanish-speaking world into a “Hispanic bloc”. It sheds light on this transatlantic project, from its celebrative inauguration in 1954, and until its decline in the late-1960. It indicates that this neo-imperial dream of spiritual unification faced numerous…
T he “A rgentine F ranco ”: The Regime of Juan Carlos Onganía and Its Ideological Dialogue with Francoist Spain (1966–1970)
The article examines the ideological character of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship by exploring its ties and dialogue with Francisco Franco's Spain. Known as the “Argentine Revolution,” Onganía's regime (1966-70) was, the article shows, one of the first Cold War Latin American dictatorship to overtly use Francoist ideology as its point of reference. While building on the conventional wisdom that the legacies of the Spanish Civil War informed ri…
By the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination
Notes1. See- Jordi Gracia García, La resistencia silenciosa: fascismo y cultura en España (Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2004)
The Hispanic Community of Nations: The Spanish-Argentine nexus and the imagining of a Hispanic Cold War bloc
The article explores how a network of Spanish and Argentine fascist intellectuals configured a supranational citizenship for Latin America during the Cold War years, in an attempt to unite the Spanish-speaking world into a “Hispanic bloc”. It sheds light on this transatlantic project, from its celebrative inauguration in 1954, and until its decline in the late-1960. It indicates that this neo-imperial dream of spiritual unification faced numerous…
Getting off the Tiger”: The Spanish Transitional Model and its Influence on the Democratic Transitions in Argentina and Chile, 1977–1990
The article explains how the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy, as a “model” for a political reform devoid of transitional justice, informed the Argentine and Chilean democratic transition of the 1980s. It indicates that during the mid-1980s, Spanish figures promoted Spain’s “pacted transition” in Latin America within particular intellectual networks. While ultimately failing to impact the Argentine democratisation, the Spanish di…
T he “A rgentine F ranco ”: The Regime of Juan Carlos Onganía and Its Ideological Dialogue with Francoist Spain (1966–1970)
The article examines the ideological character of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship by exploring its ties and dialogue with Francisco Franco's Spain. Known as the “Argentine Revolution,” Onganía's regime (1966-70) was, the article shows, one of the first Cold War Latin American dictatorship to overtly use Francoist ideology as its point of reference. While building on the conventional wisdom that the legacies of the Spanish Civil War informed ri…
Introduction: How Augusto Pinochet’s Constitution Came into Existence and How it Endured until 2022
For the past forty-two years Chile has been governed according to the infamous 1980 Constitution. Bequeathed to the country by its military dictator Augusto Pinochet, this text was originally designed to sustain an infinite de facto dictatorship in Chile. While this did not happen, and despite having been repeatedly amended since 1989, the 1980 Constitution is still considered an illegitimate text by most Chileans, as the 2020 Chilean national pl…
‘Los Duros’: The Neo-Fascist Opposition to Chile’s 1980 Constitution, and its Francoist Connections
The article explores the activity of Chile’s unique neo-fascist movement from the early 1970s until 1990. Whereas Jaime Guzmán and his ideological group (the gremialistas) believed that the military dictatorship should conclude with the creation of a protected parliamentary democracy, the so-called hardliners thought that the dictatorship’s mission was to institute a fascist-corporatist regime in Chile. First, the article shows that while Guzmán …
Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 1945–1991
Hispanic Technocracy explores the emergence, zenith, and demise of a distinctive post-fascist school of thought that materialized as state ideology during the Cold War in three military regimes: Francisco Franco's Spain (1939–1975), Juan Carlos Onganía's Argentina (1966–1973), and Augusto Pinochet's Chile (1973–1988). In this intellectual and cultural history, Daniel Gunnar Kressel examines how Francoist Spain replaced its fascist ideology with a…
“La ética judeocristiana”: On Latin America’s Right-Wing Populists and their Support of Israel during the Gaza War
Since October 7, 2023, Latin America’s so-called “New Right” politicians have been avidly supporting the Israeli government during its war in the Gaza Strip, to the extent of traveling to Jerusalem and paying tribute to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This article explores how and why this avid pro-Israeli activism came about, and how it differs from the attitudes of contemporary right-wing European leaders as well as from the ant…
Fascists and Gentlemen? The Last Dictatorship 's Vexed Relationship with Argentinian Fascism (‘Nacionalismo’)
While there is a consensus among historians that Argentina's Last Dictatorship was one of the most radically right-wing regimes in modern Latin American history, the question of whether this regime's ideology was informed by fascist ideology has remained, to a large extent, open. This article explores the relationship between the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (PRN) and Argentina's fascist movement, self-labeled the ‘nacionalistas’. It begins…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Dictatorship (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Law (4 works)