Gregory Weeks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3661589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gregory Weeks |
| PRENOMES | Gregory |
| SOBRENOME | Weeks |
| ASSINATURA | WEEKS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Feathers of Condor
With the continued release of previously classified or hidden documents, we are starting to understand more about Operation Condor, the coordinated effort developed by five South American dictatorships to terrorize and exterminate their political opponents in the mid-1970s. Founded in 1975 by the Chilean military government of Augusto Pinochet, it was responsible for intelligence sharing and murders across the continent. Fernando López's exhausti…
Civilian inattention and democratization
The Chilean political transition that took place in 1932 is commonly viewed as positive for civil-military relations. This article argues that the very means used to restore stable civilian rule in Chile in the 1930s also contributed to the slow decay of civil-military relations, especially with the army. The conceptual lesson for the contemporary period is that civilian control entails much more than avoiding coups or rebellion in the short term…
Soft Power, Leverage, and the Obama Doctrine in Cuba
Fighting to close the School of the Americas
This article examines the structural and institutional changes that have occurred since the controversial United States School of the Americas (SOA) closed and its successor, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), opened in 2001. Placing these changes within a constructivist framework, the article uses the school as a case study to argue that human rights norm diffusion has both increased the amount of human rights i…
Immigration and Transnationalism
As more Latin American migrants make their way to the United States, the issue of transnationalism has received increased scholarly attention. Transnationalism refers to the delinking of the individual from his or her government and an increase in international ties as a result of the economic globalization that promotes the movement of people, goods, money, and ideas. Prevailing consensus is that the state, particularly in Latin America, is weak…
Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile
There is a large and still-growing literature on traumatic memory in Chile. Nearly 40 years after the coup and over 20 since Augusto Pinochet left power, the powerful psychological effects of political violence remain painfully relevant. The academic literature has gradually though incompletely responded to understand it. In Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence, Michael Lazzara grapples with some of the most…
Civilian Expertise and Civilian–Military Relations in Latin America
Even as the era of military rule in Latin America fades well into the past, empirical and theoretical questions about civilian–military relations remain highly relevant. For the first time in the region's history, most governments have been working to manage civilian–military relations within a setting of democratic rule. This article is intended to contribute to the debate over the importance of civilian expertise in the relationship between Lat…
Michelle Bachelet's Government
The purpose of this article is to explain the contradictions in Michelle Bachelet's presidency by focusing on the paradoxical nature of presidential power, the limits on the executive in the Chilean constitution, and how those limits affected President Bachelet's government. At the outset of her presidency, she faced the problem of wanting to promote inclusive policies while simultaneously experiencing political pressure to maintain elite consens…
Twenty-First Century Socialism? The Elusive Search for a Post-Neoliberal Development Model in Bolivia and Ecuador
The recent political, economic and social histories of Bolivia and Ecuador point to a broader, post-neoliberal trend emerging in Latin America. Presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa have closely followed the basic model of twenty-first-century socialism as an alternative to free market capitalism. In theory, both leaders have successfully re-founded their countries with new constitutions that encompass the interests of all sectors of society. …
The Bachelet Government
Michelle Bachelet was the first elected female president of Chile, and the first woman elected president of any South American country. What was just as remarkable, though less noted, was the success and stability of the political coalition that she represented, the Concertaciόn. Though Bachelet was the fourth consecutive Concertaciόn president, upon taking office her administration quickly faced a series of crises, including massive student prot…
U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions
Recent Works on U.S.–Latin American Relations
Recent Works on U.S.–Latin American Relations Gregory Weeks (bio) Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.–Latin American Relations. By Stewart Brewer. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. Pp. 197. $49.95 cloth. Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.–Latin American Relations, 2nd ed. Edited by Michael LaRosa and Frank O. Mora. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. 371. $29.95 paper. Addicted to Failure: U.S. Security Policy…
In from the Cold
The Cold War in Latin America continues to be a major topic of analysis in many academic disciplines, made all the more enticing because new information is constantly emerging. In from the Cold asks us to look beyond the opening of new archives, testimonies, interviews, and declassified documents and instead to reconsider the conflict itself. For many years, scholars have viewed Latin America as caught between two great powers in a largely reacti…
A Preference for Deference
In the past decade an effort to reform the military's role in defence institutions such as intelligence services has been underway across Latin America. Utilising the cases of Argentina, Chile and Peru, this article will argue that reform has occurred, but has been limited in terms of expanding civilian authority, and will offer a means of understanding the dynamics of intelligence reform. In particular, incentives for civilians to pursue complic…
Facing Failure
Not long ago, I received a packet of papers, the contents of which explained why my latest article submission was rejected by a well-known peer-reviewed journal. Like everyone else, I've been in this position before, but this time two things led me to more contemplation than usual. First, it was the first rejection since I received tenure, and I noted that job security did little to dampen my disappointment. Second, it came very shortly after I r…
Understanding the Holocaust
Omer Bartov Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003), 248 pp., (pb), ISBN 0801486815. Doris L. Bergen War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 280 pp., $17.95 (pb), ISBN 0847696316. Inga Clendinnen Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 238 pp., $15 (pb), ISBN 0521012694. Debórah Dwork ed.,…
Rethinking Historical Factors
As South American dictatorships fade into the past, analyses regarding their military legacies have increasingly diverged and disagreed. The purpose of this article is to introduce a factor that has yet to be fully incorporated into these accounts, one that has usually been viewed as less useful in examining political transitions, namely historical military legacies. The study of the military's role in transitions has been hampered by an overemph…
The Military and Legalism
AlthoughArgentina and Brazil initially received more attention in that regard, Chile is a tempting new examplebecause retired General Augusto Pinochet, once a symbol of utter impunity (even entering theChilean Senate), was transformed into a rumpled octogenarian, and for the most part disappearedfrom public view (though not from public discourse). His successors in the role of army Commander-in-Chief began speaking in new terms, eschewing Pinoche…
Fighting the enemy within
German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945
Zwangsarbeit und Verfolgung
The 'Lessons' of Dictatorship
This article argues that political learning with regard to civil-military relations in Chile has proved an obstacle to democratization. In the postauthoritarian period, both the armed forces and political parties have referred to history when considering civil-military reform, especially with regard to how to avoid a repeat of the conflict of the Unidad Popular period. Meanwhile, the military also utilizes the Spanish example when resisting chang…
Germans into Nazis
The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Almost Jeffersonian
Since Latin American independence, U.S. presidents have consistently faced the issue of how to respond to domestic political conflict in the region. The purpose of this article is to examine U.S. recognition policy toward Latin American governments, to identify patterns in that policy, and to explain its decline. It might appear that the United States has come full circle and that we are currently seeing a return to Thomas Jefferson's de facto pr…
Twenty-First Century Socialism? The Elusive Search for a Post-Neoliberal Development Model in Bolivia and Ecuador
The recent political, economic and social histories of Bolivia and Ecuador point to a broader, post-neoliberal trend emerging in Latin America. Presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa have closely followed the basic model of twenty-first-century socialism as an alternative to free market capitalism. In theory, both leaders have successfully re-founded their countries with new constitutions that encompass the interests of all sectors of society. …
Immigration and Transnationalism
As more Latin American migrants make their way to the United States, the issue of transnationalism has received increased scholarly attention. Transnationalism refers to the delinking of the individual from his or her government and an increase in international ties as a result of the economic globalization that promotes the movement of people, goods, money, and ideas. Prevailing consensus is that the state, particularly in Latin America, is weak…
The 'Lessons' of Dictatorship
This article argues that political learning with regard to civil-military relations in Chile has proved an obstacle to democratization. In the postauthoritarian period, both the armed forces and political parties have referred to history when considering civil-military reform, especially with regard to how to avoid a repeat of the conflict of the Unidad Popular period. Meanwhile, the military also utilizes the Spanish example when resisting chang…
Michelle Bachelet's Government
The purpose of this article is to explain the contradictions in Michelle Bachelet's presidency by focusing on the paradoxical nature of presidential power, the limits on the executive in the Chilean constitution, and how those limits affected President Bachelet's government. At the outset of her presidency, she faced the problem of wanting to promote inclusive policies while simultaneously experiencing political pressure to maintain elite consens…
Recent Works on U.S.–Latin American Relations
Recent Works on U.S.–Latin American Relations Gregory Weeks (bio) Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.–Latin American Relations. By Stewart Brewer. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. Pp. 197. $49.95 cloth. Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.–Latin American Relations, 2nd ed. Edited by Michael LaRosa and Frank O. Mora. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. 371. $29.95 paper. Addicted to Failure: U.S. Security Policy…
Fighting the enemy within
Waiting for Cincinnatus
This article explains the persistent influence of General Augusto Pinochet in Chilean politics. After leaving the presidency in 1990, he managed to fuse his personal position with that not only of the institution of the army but of the armed forces as a whole, making Pinochet and the military almost indistinguishable. By doing so Pinochet sought to equate any attack on him with an attack on the institution. The military, in turn, accepted him as …
Fighting to close the School of the Americas
This article examines the structural and institutional changes that have occurred since the controversial United States School of the Americas (SOA) closed and its successor, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), opened in 2001. Placing these changes within a constructivist framework, the article uses the school as a case study to argue that human rights norm diffusion has both increased the amount of human rights i…
Almost Jeffersonian
Since Latin American independence, U.S. presidents have consistently faced the issue of how to respond to domestic political conflict in the region. The purpose of this article is to examine U.S. recognition policy toward Latin American governments, to identify patterns in that policy, and to explain its decline. It might appear that the United States has come full circle and that we are currently seeing a return to Thomas Jefferson's de facto pr…
The Long Road to Civilian Supremacy
Waiting for Cincinnatus
This article explains the persistent influence of General Augusto Pinochet in Chilean politics. After leaving the presidency in 1990, he managed to fuse his personal position with that not only of the institution of the army but of the armed forces as a whole, making Pinochet and the military almost indistinguishable. By doing so Pinochet sought to equate any attack on him with an attack on the institution. The military, in turn, accepted him as …
The Long Road to Civilian Supremacy
Germans into Nazis
The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Almost Jeffersonian
Since Latin American independence, U.S. presidents have consistently faced the issue of how to respond to domestic political conflict in the region. The purpose of this article is to examine U.S. recognition policy toward Latin American governments, to identify patterns in that policy, and to explain its decline. It might appear that the United States has come full circle and that we are currently seeing a return to Thomas Jefferson's de facto pr…
German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945
Zwangsarbeit und Verfolgung
The 'Lessons' of Dictatorship
This article argues that political learning with regard to civil-military relations in Chile has proved an obstacle to democratization. In the postauthoritarian period, both the armed forces and political parties have referred to history when considering civil-military reform, especially with regard to how to avoid a repeat of the conflict of the Unidad Popular period. Meanwhile, the military also utilizes the Spanish example when resisting chang…
Fighting the enemy within
Rethinking Historical Factors
As South American dictatorships fade into the past, analyses regarding their military legacies have increasingly diverged and disagreed. The purpose of this article is to introduce a factor that has yet to be fully incorporated into these accounts, one that has usually been viewed as less useful in examining political transitions, namely historical military legacies. The study of the military's role in transitions has been hampered by an overemph…
The Military and Legalism
AlthoughArgentina and Brazil initially received more attention in that regard, Chile is a tempting new examplebecause retired General Augusto Pinochet, once a symbol of utter impunity (even entering theChilean Senate), was transformed into a rumpled octogenarian, and for the most part disappearedfrom public view (though not from public discourse). His successors in the role of army Commander-in-Chief began speaking in new terms, eschewing Pinoche…
Facing Failure
Not long ago, I received a packet of papers, the contents of which explained why my latest article submission was rejected by a well-known peer-reviewed journal. Like everyone else, I've been in this position before, but this time two things led me to more contemplation than usual. First, it was the first rejection since I received tenure, and I noted that job security did little to dampen my disappointment. Second, it came very shortly after I r…
Understanding the Holocaust
Omer Bartov Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003), 248 pp., (pb), ISBN 0801486815. Doris L. Bergen War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 280 pp., $17.95 (pb), ISBN 0847696316. Inga Clendinnen Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 238 pp., $15 (pb), ISBN 0521012694. Debórah Dwork ed.,…
A Preference for Deference
In the past decade an effort to reform the military's role in defence institutions such as intelligence services has been underway across Latin America. Utilising the cases of Argentina, Chile and Peru, this article will argue that reform has occurred, but has been limited in terms of expanding civilian authority, and will offer a means of understanding the dynamics of intelligence reform. In particular, incentives for civilians to pursue complic…
U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions
Recent Works on U.S.–Latin American Relations
Recent Works on U.S.–Latin American Relations Gregory Weeks (bio) Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.–Latin American Relations. By Stewart Brewer. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. Pp. 197. $49.95 cloth. Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.–Latin American Relations, 2nd ed. Edited by Michael LaRosa and Frank O. Mora. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. 371. $29.95 paper. Addicted to Failure: U.S. Security Policy…
In from the Cold
The Cold War in Latin America continues to be a major topic of analysis in many academic disciplines, made all the more enticing because new information is constantly emerging. In from the Cold asks us to look beyond the opening of new archives, testimonies, interviews, and declassified documents and instead to reconsider the conflict itself. For many years, scholars have viewed Latin America as caught between two great powers in a largely reacti…
The Bachelet Government
Michelle Bachelet was the first elected female president of Chile, and the first woman elected president of any South American country. What was just as remarkable, though less noted, was the success and stability of the political coalition that she represented, the Concertaciόn. Though Bachelet was the fourth consecutive Concertaciόn president, upon taking office her administration quickly faced a series of crises, including massive student prot…
Twenty-First Century Socialism? The Elusive Search for a Post-Neoliberal Development Model in Bolivia and Ecuador
The recent political, economic and social histories of Bolivia and Ecuador point to a broader, post-neoliberal trend emerging in Latin America. Presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa have closely followed the basic model of twenty-first-century socialism as an alternative to free market capitalism. In theory, both leaders have successfully re-founded their countries with new constitutions that encompass the interests of all sectors of society. …
Civilian Expertise and Civilian–Military Relations in Latin America
Even as the era of military rule in Latin America fades well into the past, empirical and theoretical questions about civilian–military relations remain highly relevant. For the first time in the region's history, most governments have been working to manage civilian–military relations within a setting of democratic rule. This article is intended to contribute to the debate over the importance of civilian expertise in the relationship between Lat…
Michelle Bachelet's Government
The purpose of this article is to explain the contradictions in Michelle Bachelet's presidency by focusing on the paradoxical nature of presidential power, the limits on the executive in the Chilean constitution, and how those limits affected President Bachelet's government. At the outset of her presidency, she faced the problem of wanting to promote inclusive policies while simultaneously experiencing political pressure to maintain elite consens…
Immigration and Transnationalism
As more Latin American migrants make their way to the United States, the issue of transnationalism has received increased scholarly attention. Transnationalism refers to the delinking of the individual from his or her government and an increase in international ties as a result of the economic globalization that promotes the movement of people, goods, money, and ideas. Prevailing consensus is that the state, particularly in Latin America, is weak…
Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile
There is a large and still-growing literature on traumatic memory in Chile. Nearly 40 years after the coup and over 20 since Augusto Pinochet left power, the powerful psychological effects of political violence remain painfully relevant. The academic literature has gradually though incompletely responded to understand it. In Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence, Michael Lazzara grapples with some of the most…
Fighting to close the School of the Americas
This article examines the structural and institutional changes that have occurred since the controversial United States School of the Americas (SOA) closed and its successor, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), opened in 2001. Placing these changes within a constructivist framework, the article uses the school as a case study to argue that human rights norm diffusion has both increased the amount of human rights i…
Soft Power, Leverage, and the Obama Doctrine in Cuba
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