Thomas C Bruneau
Biographic Data
| ID | 420518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas C Bruneau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruneau |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNEAU T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations
The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 was a presidential attempt at a self-coup. To make the case, this article reviews elements of the Capitol assault and the events leading up to it, in light of the key conceptual components of a self-coup, and how those compare to attributes of other kinds of attacks on governments. The Trump self-coup will then be compared and contrasted empirically to other self-coups perpetrated by leaders…
The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations
Putting the Military Back into Civil-Military Relations
This essay reviews the following works: Ensaios de grande estratégia brasileira. By João Paulo S. Alsina Jr. Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV, 2018. Pp. 291. Reais 43.00 paperback. ISBN: 9788522520619. Politics in Uniform: Military Officers and Dictatorship in Brazil, 1960–1980. By Maud Chirio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 280. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822965374. Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Pue…
Power And Poverty: Development and Development Projects in the Third World
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved.
Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development
Closing the Gap Between Law Enforcement and National Security Intelligence: Comparative Approaches
The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2018.1522219
Civil-Military Relations: Control and Effectiveness Across Regimes
How does civilian control affect military effectiveness? Can a balance be achieved between the two? In-country experts address these questions through a set of rich comparative case studies. Covering the spectrum from democracies to authoritarian regimes, they explore the nexus of control and effectiveness to reveal its importance for national security and the legitimacy of both political order and the military institution
Removing the Stigma from Intelligence
Two major problems with the literature on intelligence become even greater when the topic switches to its oversight. Because at some point in the process intelligence is secret, making much if not
Soldiers, politicians, and civilians: Reforming civil-military relations in democratic Latin America, by David Pion-Berlin and Rafael Martínez
Soldiers, politicians, and civilians: reforming civil-military relations in democratic Latin America, by David Pion-Berlin and Rafael Martínez." Democratization, 25(8), pp. 1546–1547
Combatting Terrorism Through Fusion Centers: Useful Lessons From Other Experiences
European nations might consider an institutional option in their ongoing fight against terrorism. Research on intelligence reform globally indicates that certain institutional innovations to combat
Security Providers: Obstacles to Effectiveness in Democracies
To usefully discuss security, one must analyze the security providers states utilize to enhance international and domestic security. These are the armed forces, police, and intelligence agencies. This paper analyzes the implications of democratization on the requirements—posited as strategies, resources, and coordination institutions—these providers require in order to achieve the goals civilian leaders set for them. In analyzing case studies of …
The Ambiguity of American Power: Drugs, Crime, and Violence in Latin America
This essay reviews the following works:Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today. Edited by Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. ix + 431. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780804795661
Impediments to Fighting the Islamic State: Private Contractors and US Strategy
The United States has returned to Iraq, this time to combat the Islamic State. President Barack Obama’s strategy to ‘degrade, and ultimately destroy the terrorist group’ faces serious problems due to political obstacles in obtaining Congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) and more importantly because of neglect of the crucial role of private contractors. Although the narrative has changed, and there is no public mention o…
As Relações Civis-Militares em Portugal: O Longo Processo para o Controle Civil e a Eficácia Militar
O artigo trata das relações entre civis e militares em Portugal usando um quadro analítico baseado em indicadores empíricos relativos a três dimensões: controle democrático por parte de civis, eficácia no desempenho de tarefas e missões, e eficiência. Apesar da crise econômica e da consequente falta de recursos do governo, esta análise se mostra positiva numa perspectiva comparada. Ademais da influência e dos incentivos de organizações internacio…
Intelligence Reform in Brazil: A Long, Drawn-Out Process
The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2015.1022469
The US experience in contracting out security and lessons for other countries
The United States has gone further than any country in the "privatization of security". Other countries may find the economic or financial logic in the use of contractors persuasive. The US experience with contracting out security, particularly in Iraq, was problematic, and can serve as a cautionary tale in order that other countries might learn how to avoid the pitfalls
Challenges in building partner capacity: Civil-military relations in the United States and new democracies
The main emphasis in US security assistance is 'building partner capacity'. To understand prospects for building capacity implies knowledge of the security sector, including the armed forces and also national police and intelligence agencies. The scholarly sub-discipline that should be useful for analysis of a nation's use of armed forces is civil-military relations as it ostensibly directs attention to when and how civilians choose to utilize th…
Pandillas and Security in Central America
This article introduces the topic of pandillas (street gangs) and their implications for security in Central America. There is minimal scholarly literature on pandillas and security. In part this is due to serious challenges in analyzing pandillas. First, pandilla members consider truth to be situational; data derived directly from them is suspect. Second, those who know most about them are involved in NGOs that rely on foreign assistance for the…
Civil–Military Relations in Brazil: A Reassessment
This article analyzes Brazilian civil–military relations using a framework that directs attention to the institutions of not only democratic civilian control, but also of military effectiveness and efficiency. The article argues that democratic civilian control over the armed forces in Brazil is exercised by a wide variety of mechanisms, many of which are not specifically designed for this purpose, but are instead part of a vast array of institut…
Contracting Out Security
Private security companies (PSCs) currently receive a great deal of attention in the news media, in sensationalist reporting, and increasingly in scholarly books and articles. While the scholarly books and articles make significant contributions to our understanding of this global phenomenon, there are several impediments to analysis that must be recognized and overcome if analysis is to be improved. Three of these impediments are reviewed in thi…
Civilians and the Military in Latin America: The Absence of Incentives
This article argues that civil-military relations should be conceptualized not only in terms of democratic civilian control but also for effectiveness in implementing a spectrum of roles and missions. It also argues that achieving effectiveness requires institutional development as a necessary but not sufficient condition. Currently in Latin America, the focus in civil-military relations remains exclusively on civilian control. While there is a g…
Policymakers and Intelligence Reform in the New Democracies
The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2011.598784
Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America
Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's mara gangs, but there have been few clear-eyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of the mara phenomenon. The first book to look specifically at the Central American gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, Maras: Gang Violence and…
Intelligence reform in new democracies: Factors Supporting or Arresting Progress
This article examines an important (and most problematic) component of the democratic civil–military relations (CMR) concept (understood in terms of democratic control, effectiveness, and efficiency of the armed forces, police forces, and intelligence agencies). It focuses (1) on the democratization of intelligence, that is finding a proper balance between intelligence effectiveness and transparency, and (2) on what particular factors support or …
Democracy and Effectiveness: Adapting Intelligence for the Fight Against Terrorism
Several countries in South America have recently undertaken reforms of their intelligence systems, and other countries in the region are now beginning similar reforms. While in most cases the initial motivation was to bring the intelligence agencies under democratic civil control as one of the last phases of democratic consolidation, civilian governments and military leaders are today increasingly motivated to reform their intelligence systems in…
Towards a New Conceptualization of Democratization and Civil-Military Relations
The purpose of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the contemporary importance for democracy of the relationship between elected leaders and the security forces. It attempts to present a conceptualization and framework to help comprehend what security forces actually do and how they interface with democratic governments. The article aims to extend the conceptual breadth of the literature on civil–military relations beyond c…
A mediterranean model of democracy? The Southern European democracies in comparative perspective
The four Southern European democracies ‐ Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece ‐ have a number of important cultural, social, economic, and historical characteristics in common, and their political systems are also often seen as similar, representing a ‘Mediterranean model of democracy’. However, when these four democratic regimes are compared with the world's other democracies in terms of the contrasting majoritarian and consensus models, they turn …
Civil–Military Relations in Brazil: A Reassessment
This article analyzes Brazilian civil–military relations using a framework that directs attention to the institutions of not only democratic civilian control, but also of military effectiveness and efficiency. The article argues that democratic civilian control over the armed forces in Brazil is exercised by a wide variety of mechanisms, many of which are not specifically designed for this purpose, but are instead part of a vast array of institut…
Democratization as a Global Phenomenonand its Impact on Civil-Military Relations
The most recent wave of democratization has placed control over military and security forces in the hands of elected officials in more countries than ever before. Despite the implications of this trend for international security, scholarly work on democratization and civil-military relations has tended to focus on purely local actors, interests, and strategies when explaining outcomes. When the impact of global trends is considered at all, the fo…
Civilians and the Military in Latin America: The Absence of Incentives
This article argues that civil-military relations should be conceptualized not only in terms of democratic civilian control but also for effectiveness in implementing a spectrum of roles and missions. It also argues that achieving effectiveness requires institutional development as a necessary but not sufficient condition. Currently in Latin America, the focus in civil-military relations remains exclusively on civilian control. While there is a g…
Church and Politics in Brazil: The Genesis of Change
The Catholic Church in Brazil has undergone a fundamental transformation in its role in state and society during the past decade and a half, making it probably the most progressive Church in Latin America, if not the world. Based on theological innovations since the Second Vatican Council (1962-5) and the CELAM meeting in Medellín, Colombia (1968), the Church in Brazil has made a 'preferential option for the poor
Power and Influence: Analysis of the Church in Latin America and the Case of Brazil
The Catholic Church in Latin America was until the mid-1960s one of the most ignored topics of research in a neglected continent. It was not only overlooked by North Americans and Europeans; stranger still, it received only cursory attention from Latin American scholars. The meagre consideration it did attract was overwhelmingly historical in nature and frequently came from authors promoting or attacking particular religious beliefs and instituti…
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations
The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 was a presidential attempt at a self-coup. To make the case, this article reviews elements of the Capitol assault and the events leading up to it, in light of the key conceptual components of a self-coup, and how those compare to attributes of other kinds of attacks on governments. The Trump self-coup will then be compared and contrasted empirically to other self-coups perpetrated by leaders…
Intelligence reform in new democracies: Factors Supporting or Arresting Progress
This article examines an important (and most problematic) component of the democratic civil–military relations (CMR) concept (understood in terms of democratic control, effectiveness, and efficiency of the armed forces, police forces, and intelligence agencies). It focuses (1) on the democratization of intelligence, that is finding a proper balance between intelligence effectiveness and transparency, and (2) on what particular factors support or …
Patterns of Church Influence in Brazil's Political Transition
Brazil's twenty-one year authoritarian regime came to a close on January 15, 1985, when Tancredo Neves, the candidate of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, was elected president by an electoral college of state and federal legislators. Although Neves died before assuming office, the political transition of which he was a part has continued under his successor, Jose Sarney. Municipal elections were held on November 15, 1985, and e…
Continuity and change in Portuguese politics: Ten years after the revolution of 25 April 1974
1984). Continuity and change in Portuguese politics: Ten years after the revolution of 25 April 1974. West European Politics: Vol. 7, The New Mediterranean Democracies: Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal, pp. 72-83
Reforming Intelligence: Democracy and Effectiveness
Reforming national intelligence communities is a critical, if often overlooked, task facing democratizing countries. Democracy requires openness in the flow of information and discussion, while intelligence work often demands secrecy. Maintaining agencies to do such work in the midst of a generally open political culture is a challenge for any democracy. Democratizing or newly democratic countries, however, must deal with the even more arduous ta…
As Relações Civis-Militares em Portugal: O Longo Processo para o Controle Civil e a Eficácia Militar
O artigo trata das relações entre civis e militares em Portugal usando um quadro analítico baseado em indicadores empíricos relativos a três dimensões: controle democrático por parte de civis, eficácia no desempenho de tarefas e missões, e eficiência. Apesar da crise econômica e da consequente falta de recursos do governo, esta análise se mostra positiva numa perspectiva comparada. Ademais da influência e dos incentivos de organizações internacio…
Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development
Church and State in Portugal: Crises of Cross and Sword
Journal Article Church and State in Portugal: Crises of Cross and Sword Get access Thomas C. Bruneau Thomas C. Bruneau Associate Professor of Political Science McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 18, Issue 3, Autumn 1976, Pages 463–490, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/18.3.463 Published: 01 October 1976
The Catholic Church and development in Latin America: The role of the Basic Christian Communities
Contracting Out Security
Private security companies (PSCs) currently receive a great deal of attention in the news media, in sensationalist reporting, and increasingly in scholarly books and articles. While the scholarly books and articles make significant contributions to our understanding of this global phenomenon, there are several impediments to analysis that must be recognized and overcome if analysis is to be improved. Three of these impediments are reviewed in thi…
Consolidating civilian Brazil
Political transitions, as changes from one type of regime to another, are inherently complicated. Not only are the individuals and possibly some organisations (the armed forces, political parties, groups and associations) which were formerly in power replaced by others, but the very format of the regime is also transformed as is its legitimacy and bases of support. In the contemporary phase of transitions from dictatorship to democracy in Souther…
Catholicism and Political Development in Latin America
Catholicism, and Political Development in Latin America
Obstacles to Change in the Church: Lessons from Four Brazilian Dioceses
A review of the popular and even scholarly literature dealing with the Catholic Church in Latin America during the last decade will leave the reader confused. The books, articles, and media coverage in comparison with each other are ambiguous and at times contradictory. If on the one hand the Church is described as the fastest-changing institution on the continent, there is on the other hand ample proof put forth that the institution is stagnant …
Power and Influence: Analysis of the Church in Latin America and the Case of Brazil
The Catholic Church in Latin America was until the mid-1960s one of the most ignored topics of research in a neglected continent. It was not only overlooked by North Americans and Europeans; stranger still, it received only cursory attention from Latin American scholars. The meagre consideration it did attract was overwhelmingly historical in nature and frequently came from authors promoting or attacking particular religious beliefs and instituti…
The Political Transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church
Church and State in Portugal: Crises of Cross and Sword
Journal Article Church and State in Portugal: Crises of Cross and Sword Get access Thomas C. Bruneau Thomas C. Bruneau Associate Professor of Political Science McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 18, Issue 3, Autumn 1976, Pages 463–490, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/18.3.463 Published: 01 October 1976
Religion and Political Modernization
Out of Africa and into Europe: Towards an Analysis of Portuguese Foreign Policy
Although the purpose of this article is to analyse the foreign policy positions of the Socialist (Partido Socialista ps) government formed in July 1976 as the first constitutional government of the third Portuguese republic, the analysis will range much further. Five months is too brief a period for any definite assessment and the Socialists1 initiatives cannot be appreciated without extensive exploration of earlier developments. This background …
The Catholic Church and development in Latin America: The role of the Basic Christian Communities
Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development
Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development
The Church and Politics in Chile, Challenges to Modern Catholicism
Journal Article The Church and Politics in Chile, Challenges to Modern Catholicism, by Brian H. Smith and The Church in Brazil, The Politics of Religion, by Thomas C. Bruneau Get access James M. Malloy James M. Malloy University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 387–389, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710838 Published: 01 December 1982
Brazil in the International System: The Rise of a Middle Power
The Church in Brazil: The Politics of Religion
Continuity and change in Portuguese politics: Ten years after the revolution of 25 April 1974
1984). Continuity and change in Portuguese politics: Ten years after the revolution of 25 April 1974. West European Politics: Vol. 7, The New Mediterranean Democracies: Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal, pp. 72-83
The Church in Brazil: The Politics of Religion
Consolidating civilian Brazil
Political transitions, as changes from one type of regime to another, are inherently complicated. Not only are the individuals and possibly some organisations (the armed forces, political parties, groups and associations) which were formerly in power replaced by others, but the very format of the regime is also transformed as is its legitimacy and bases of support. In the contemporary phase of transitions from dictatorship to democracy in Souther…
Church and Politics in Brazil: The Genesis of Change
The Catholic Church in Brazil has undergone a fundamental transformation in its role in state and society during the past decade and a half, making it probably the most progressive Church in Latin America, if not the world. Based on theological innovations since the Second Vatican Council (1962-5) and the CELAM meeting in Medellín, Colombia (1968), the Church in Brazil has made a 'preferential option for the poor
The Catholic Church and Religions in Latin America
The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916-1985
A mediterranean model of democracy? The Southern European democracies in comparative perspective
The four Southern European democracies ‐ Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece ‐ have a number of important cultural, social, economic, and historical characteristics in common, and their political systems are also often seen as similar, representing a ‘Mediterranean model of democracy’. However, when these four democratic regimes are compared with the world's other democracies in terms of the contrasting majoritarian and consensus models, they turn …
Cooperation or Conflict: The Church in the Brazilian Transition
Patterns of Church Influence in Brazil's Political Transition
Brazil's twenty-one year authoritarian regime came to a close on January 15, 1985, when Tancredo Neves, the candidate of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, was elected president by an electoral college of state and federal legislators. Although Neves died before assuming office, the political transition of which he was a part has continued under his successor, Jose Sarney. Municipal elections were held on November 15, 1985, and e…
Power and Poverty: Development and Development Projects in the Third World
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved
Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation
The peaceful transfer of power to a civilian president in in March 1985 marked the end of one of Latin America's most enduring and - until the economic crisis of the 1980s - economically dynamic military regimes. In this companion volume to Authoritarian Brazil, a distinguished group of Brazilian and American scholars - Albert Fishlow, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Thomas Skidmore among them - analyze the decade-long process, known as abertura, b…
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