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Military Radicalism in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Miles D. Wolpin
Miles D. Wolpin*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, SUNY—Potsdam, Potsdam, New York, International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway
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Analyses of military roles in Latin America during the two decades following World War II often assumed the military were both isolated or apart from politics, and hence amenable to civilian control. The resurgence of militarism since the early Sixties has been reflected in scholarly works reassessing these assumptions. Whereas the pioneers in this field, such as Lieuwen (1964) and Needier (1969), are clearly civilianist—reflecting a democratic and distinctly liberal bias in their values—students of Latin American militarism in the late Sixties and Seventies have increasingly, if tacitly, assumed the unviability of civilian hegemony and tended to downplay the democratic normative issue. Terms such as militarism, democracy, and civilian supremacy have been virtually eclipsed from analyses of military intervention (Johnson, 1964; Einaudi, 1969; Ropp, 1970; Stepan, 1971; Rankin, 1974; Needier, 1975; Fitch, 1979).

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , November 1981 , pp. 395 - 428
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Copyright © University of Miami 1981

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