Download or read book Security Democracy and Development in U S Latin American Relations written by University of Miami. North-South Center and published by University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines inter-American security issues in the United States and Latin America, and explores the impact of global changes on the Western Hemisphere. Differing economic, political and strategic potential and influence in the emerging world system is discussed.
Download or read book Security Democracy and Development in U S Latin American Relation written by University of Miami. North-South Center and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy and Security in Latin America written by Gabriel Marcella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; this volume deepens our understanding of the nature and extent of state governance in Latin America. State capacity is multidimensional, with all elements interacting to produce stable governance and security. As such, a collection of scholars and practitioners use an explicit interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the contributions of history, political science, economics, public policy, military studies, and other fields to gain a rounded understanding of the link between security and democracy. Democracy and Security in Latin America is divided in two sections: Part 1 focuses on the challenges to governance and key institutions such as police, courts, armed forces. and the prison system. Part 2 features country case studies that illustrate particularly important security challenges and various means by which the state has confronted them. Democracy and Security in Latin America should appeal not only to those seeking to learn more about the capacity of the democratic state in Latin America to effectively provide public security in times of stress, but to all those curious about the reality that a democracy must have security to function.
Download or read book United States Latin American Relations written by University of New Mexico. School of Inter-American Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Militarization Democracy and Development written by Kirk S. Bowman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Third World countries benefit from having large militaries, or does this impede their development? Kirk Bowman uses statistical analysis to demonstrate that militarization has had a particularly malignant impact in this region. For his quantitative comparison he draws on longitudinal data for a sample of 76 developing countries and for 18 Latin American nations. To illuminate the causal mechanisms at work, Bowman offers a detailed comparison of Costa Rica and Honduras between 1948 and 1998. The case studies not only serve to bolster his general argument about the harmful effects of militarization but also provide many new insights into the processes of democratic consolidation and economic transformation in these two Central American countries.
Download or read book Criminality Public Security and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America written by Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and published by Kellogg Institute Democracy an. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book offer a collective assessment of some of the causes for the alarming rise in criminal activity in Latin America as new democratic regimes have taken root.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security written by David R. Mares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America’s comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America’s security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. This Handbook sets a rigorous agenda for future research and is organised into five key parts: • The Evolution of Security in Latin America • Theoretical Approaches to Security in Latin America • Different 'Securities' • Contemporary Regional Security Challenges • Latin America and Contemporary International Security Challenges With a focus on contemporary challenges and the failures of regional institutions to eliminate the threat of the use of force among Latin Americans, this Handbook will be of great interest to students of Latin American politics, security studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations in general.
Download or read book International Security and Democracy written by Jorge I. Dominguez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominguez has drawn together fifteen leading scholars on international relations and comparative politics from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, thus bringing to bear varying national perspectives from several corners of the hemisphere to analyze the intersection between regional security issues and the democracy building process in Latin America.
Download or read book U S Latin America Relations written by Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S.-Latin America Relations and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of increasing attention to energy and climate change in the presidential campaigns, recent failure of the Senate to advance the Lieberman-Warner climate bill, and preparations for this summer's G8 summit, a CFR-sponsored Independent T.
Download or read book Power Dynamics and Regional Security in Latin America written by Marcial A.G. Suarez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the repercussions of a changing world order on regional security in Latin America. It examines how global and regional power shifts impact on the evolution of regional institutions as well as on state policies adopted in response to regional security challenges such as border conflicts, political instability, migration, drug-trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. Contributions to this volume analyze the topic from three angles: power dynamics and its effects on regional security governance; the contribution of regional institutions to the management of security challenges; and the impact of power dynamics on states’ shifting security priorities. Written by specialists from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Europe, the chapters weave theory and case studies to provide a rich description of the impact of power and politics on regional security in Latin America. This book is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Latin American politics, regional cooperation, and war and conflict studies, as well as international security and international relations in general.
Download or read book Democracy and Its Discontents written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on development, breakthroughs and setbacks to democracy in Latin America, this work examines US-Latin American relations. It emphasises the importance of recognising that concepts such as democracy, rights and constitutionalism have different meanings in the US and Latin America.
Download or read book Barrio Democracy in Latin America written by Eduardo Canel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.
Download or read book Post World War II Political Developments in Latin America written by University of New Mexico. School of Inter-American Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American Views of U S Policy written by Robert G. Wesson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy Vs National Security written by Paul W. Zagorski and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru, Zagorski adopts a comparative framework to treat one of the key problems in the process of democratic consolidation: that of establishing civilian control over the armed forces.
Download or read book U s Policy Toward Latin America written by Harold Molineu and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1986-05-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen Security and Democratization in Latin America written by Fernanda A. Gutiérrez-Merino and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English: Latin American region has transitioned to democracy in the last forty-thirty years and along with many policy reforms, citizen security has not been left behind. As these changes evolve, the relationship between internal security and the development of a stable democracy has acquired a great importance in terms of the factors that contribute to a free world. The purpose of this research is to look at how security policy and policing in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, and Mexico have contributed to the democratization process in regards to how the recent reforms in law enforcement in the region have created favorable conditions towards democracy. First, this paper focuses on establishing the relationship between internal security and democratization, moving forward to the role of law enforcement in the demilitarization trend in the region and the world on the transition to democracy. After briefly covering some socio economic indicators of Latin America, this inquiry applies an original demilitarization scale of law enforcement to the citizen security institutions in the countries mentioned above. This is the first empirical measurement of law enforcement demilitarization for countries in Latin America. The empirical design tests whether demilitarization of internal security affects individuals’ diffusive democracy support and police institutions’ specific democratization or, on the contrary, there is no effect what so ever. The findings show support for the main hypothesis that individuals from countries with more demilitarized police support in greater scale democratic regimes; individuals from countries perceived as less corrupted were shown to trust police institutions greater than those from countries more corrupted; finally, individuals that have had any crime interaction, whether themselves or through a relative, showed less trust rates in police institutions. Spanish: La región de Latinoamérica ha pasado a la democracia en los últimos treinta a cuarenta años y, junto con muchas reformas políticas, la seguridad ciudadana no ha quedado atrás. Mientras estos cambios evolucionan, la relación entre la seguridad interna y el desarrollo de una democracia estable ha ganado gran importancia en términos de los factores que contribuyen a un mundo libre. El propósito de esta investigación es analizar cómo la política de seguridad y la policía en Argentina, Chile, El Salvador y México han contribuido al proceso de democratización en cuanto a cómo las recientes reformas de seguridad interna en la región han creado condiciones favorables para la democracia. En primer lugar, este documento se centra en establecer la relación entre la seguridad interna y la democratización, avanzando hacia el papel de la policía en la tendencia de desmilitarización en la región y el mundo en la transición a la democracia. Tras examinar brevemente algunos indicadores socioeconómicos de América Latina, esta investigación aplica a una escala original de desmilitarización a las policías en los países mencionados anteriormente. Esta es la primera medición empírica de desmilitarización de seguridad interna en los países de América Latina. El diseño empírico prueba si la desmilitarización de la seguridad interna afecta el apoyo de los individuos a la democracia difusiva y la democratización específica de las instituciones policiales o, por el contrario, no tiene efecto alguno. Los hallazgos demuestran apoyo a la hipótesis principal de que individuos de países con más apoyo policial desmilitarizado apoyan regímenes democráticos a mayor escala; Los individuos de países percibidos como los menos corruptos muestran más confianza en las instituciones policiales que los individuos de países percibidos más corruptos; Finalmente, los individuos que han tenido alguna interacción con el crimen, ya sea ellos mismos o a través de un pariente, mostraron menos tasas de confianza en las instituciones policiales.
