Harold Trinkunas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Trinkunas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Trinkunas |
| SIGNATURE | TRINKUNAS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors that control local territory and render public services that the nation-state cannot or will not provide. This fascin…
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America
Latin America experienced recurring episodes of populism, and of military reaction against populists, during the twentieth century, frequently ending in coups d'état. In the twenty-first century, military coups appear to have died out even as populist regimes returned during the third wave of democracy. This paper examines military contestation in populist regimes, both left and right, and how it has changed in the contemporary period. Combining …
Building Democratic Militaries
Building Democratic Militaries Harold Trinkunas (bio) The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. By Zoltan Barany. Princeton University Press, 2012. 472 pp. By titling his new book as he has, Zoltan Barany consciously evokes Samuel P. Huntington’s seminal 1957 study on civil-military relations, The Soldier and the State. Whereas Huntington focused on great powers and had in view milit…
Latin America’s Growing Security Gap
Balancing freedom and security is a challenge for any democracy, yet in Latin America, governments are once again addressing this issue as the region becomes increasingly violent. A legacy of authoritarianism has led Latin American reformers to advocate limits on their security forces, directing their militaries towards external threats and democratizing their police to focus on community issues. However, violent actors have become more capable a…
Civilian Praetorianism and Military Shirking During Constitutional Crises in Latin America
Since the end of the Cold War, an elected civilian leader in Latin America is more likely to be displaced from office prior to the end of his constitutional term by mass mobilization than by a military coup.As Arturo Valenzuela has observed, thirteen of the fifteen nonconstitutional transfers of power in the region between 1990 and 2004 have been the result of civilian coups rather than military actions. 1 This phenomenon has occurred in Argentin…
Forthcoming in Volume 42 Number 3
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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…
Venezuela’s “Peaceful Revolution”
Essay| March 01 1999 Venezuela’s “Peaceful Revolution” Jennifer L. McCoy, Jennifer L. McCoy Jennifer L. McCoy is director of the Latin American and Caribbean program at the Carter Center in Atlanta and associate professor of political science at Georgia State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Harold Trinkunas Harold Trinkunas Harold Trinkunas is a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin America…
Civilian Praetorianism and Military Shirking During Constitutional Crises in Latin America
Since the end of the Cold War, an elected civilian leader in Latin America is more likely to be displaced from office prior to the end of his constitutional term by mass mobilization than by a military coup.As Arturo Valenzuela has observed, thirteen of the fifteen nonconstitutional transfers of power in the region between 1990 and 2004 have been the result of civilian coups rather than military actions. 1 This phenomenon has occurred in Argentin…
Latin America’s Growing Security Gap
Balancing freedom and security is a challenge for any democracy, yet in Latin America, governments are once again addressing this issue as the region becomes increasingly violent. A legacy of authoritarianism has led Latin American reformers to advocate limits on their security forces, directing their militaries towards external threats and democratizing their police to focus on community issues. However, violent actors have become more capable a…
Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America
Latin America experienced recurring episodes of populism, and of military reaction against populists, during the twentieth century, frequently ending in coups d'état. In the twenty-first century, military coups appear to have died out even as populist regimes returned during the third wave of democracy. This paper examines military contestation in populist regimes, both left and right, and how it has changed in the contemporary period. Combining …
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…
Venezuela’s “Peaceful Revolution”
Essay| March 01 1999 Venezuela’s “Peaceful Revolution” Jennifer L. McCoy, Jennifer L. McCoy Jennifer L. McCoy is director of the Latin American and Caribbean program at the Carter Center in Atlanta and associate professor of political science at Georgia State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Harold Trinkunas Harold Trinkunas Harold Trinkunas is a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin America…
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…
Forthcoming in Volume 42 Number 3
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Civilian Praetorianism and Military Shirking During Constitutional Crises in Latin America
Since the end of the Cold War, an elected civilian leader in Latin America is more likely to be displaced from office prior to the end of his constitutional term by mass mobilization than by a military coup.As Arturo Valenzuela has observed, thirteen of the fifteen nonconstitutional transfers of power in the region between 1990 and 2004 have been the result of civilian coups rather than military actions. 1 This phenomenon has occurred in Argentin…
Latin America’s Growing Security Gap
Balancing freedom and security is a challenge for any democracy, yet in Latin America, governments are once again addressing this issue as the region becomes increasingly violent. A legacy of authoritarianism has led Latin American reformers to advocate limits on their security forces, directing their militaries towards external threats and democratizing their police to focus on community issues. However, violent actors have become more capable a…
Building Democratic Militaries
Building Democratic Militaries Harold Trinkunas (bio) The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. By Zoltan Barany. Princeton University Press, 2012. 472 pp. By titling his new book as he has, Zoltan Barany consciously evokes Samuel P. Huntington’s seminal 1957 study on civil-military relations, The Soldier and the State. Whereas Huntington focused on great powers and had in view milit…
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors that control local territory and render public services that the nation-state cannot or will not provide. This fascin…
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America
Latin America experienced recurring episodes of populism, and of military reaction against populists, during the twentieth century, frequently ending in coups d'état. In the twenty-first century, military coups appear to have died out even as populist regimes returned during the third wave of democracy. This paper examines military contestation in populist regimes, both left and right, and how it has changed in the contemporary period. Combining …
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