Military Intervention and Withdrawal in South America

Bibliographic Data

ID6299759
AuthorsAlexandre De S C Barros (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Edmundo Campos Coelho (Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro)
Year1981
Volume2
Issue3
Pages341-349
Publication date1981-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/019251218100200310
OpenAlexW1972202059
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This article deals with the politics of military intervention and withdrawal in South America. The main argument is that a situation of "military structural unemployment" is at the root of both the military interventions in South American politics and the problems involved in the recent "liberalization" tendencies which are appearing among authori tarian military governments in that part of the continent. It is our contention that the doctrine of internal national security has given the military the ideological justification for taking over and retaining power for more than a decade, but also that it has failed to give them the instruments for institutionalizing a new social and political order in which they could find a clear identity. The military in several South American countries communicate more and more with each other, establishing, better than any other elite group, linkages across borders in political terms

Argument (complex analysis · Development economics · Doctrine · Economics · Elite · Ideology · Intervention (counseling · Military doctrine · Military threat · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Psychology

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