Democracy And Security In Latin America

Author : Gabriel Marcella,Orlando J. Pérez,Brian Fonseca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000459098

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Democracy and Security in Latin America by Gabriel Marcella,Orlando J. Pérez,Brian Fonseca Pdf

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.

Author : Yanilda María González
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108830393

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Authoritarian Police in Democracy by Yanilda María González Pdf

Explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in democratic contexts.

Author : University of Miami. North-South Center
Publisher : New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822018789867

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Security, Democracy, and Development in U.S.-Latin American Relations by University of Miami. North-South Center Pdf

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.

Author : Jorge I. Dominguez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822975007

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International Security and Democracy by Jorge I. Dominguez Pdf

Domínguez 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.

Author : H. Hugo Frühling,Joseph S. Tulchin,Heather Golding
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801873843

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Crime and Violence in Latin America by H. Hugo Frühling,Joseph S. Tulchin,Heather Golding Pdf

Offers timely discussion by attorneys, government officials, policy analysts, and academics from the United States and Latin America of the responses of the state, civil society, and the international community to threats of violence and crime.

Author : Enrique Desmond Arias,Daniel M. Goldstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822392033

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Violent Democracies in Latin America by Enrique Desmond Arias,Daniel M. Goldstein Pdf

Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of violence contrasts starkly with governmental efforts to extend civil, political, and legal rights to all citizens, and it is invoked as evidence of the failure of Latin American countries to achieve true democracy. The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a social aberration or the result of institutional failure; instead, it is intimately linked to the institutions and policies of economic liberalization and democratization. The contributors—anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians—explore how individuals and institutions in Latin American democracies, from the rural regions of Colombia and the Dominican Republic to the urban centers of Brazil and Mexico, use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice. They describe the lived realities of citizens and reveal the historical foundations of the violence that Latin America suffers today. One contributor examines the tightly woven relationship between violent individuals and state officials in Colombia, while another contextualizes violence in Rio de Janeiro within the transnational political economy of drug trafficking. By advancing the discussion of democratic Latin American regimes beyond the usual binary of success and failure, this collection suggests more sophisticated ways of understanding the challenges posed by violence, and of developing new frameworks for guaranteeing human rights in Latin America. Contributors: Enrique Desmond Arias, Javier Auyero, Lilian Bobea, Diane E. Davis, Robert Gay, Daniel M. Goldstein, Mary Roldán, Todd Landman, Ruth Stanley, María Clemencia Ramírez

Author : Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Publisher : Kellogg Institute Democracy an
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0268022135

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Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America by Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies Pdf

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.

Author : David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317965091

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security by David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Ungar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN : 1421428148

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Policing Democracy by Mark Ungar Pdf

Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard--the region's homicide rate is the world's highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics harking back to the repressive pre-1980s dictatorships. In Policing Democracy, Mark Ungar situates Latin America at a crossroads between its longstanding form of reactive policing and a problem-oriented approach based on prevention and citizen participation. Drawing on extensive case studies from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, he reviews the full spectrum of areas needing reform: criminal law, policing, investigation, trial practices, and incarceration. Finally, Policing Democracy probes democratic politics, power relations, and regional disparities of security and reform to establish a framework for understanding the crisis and moving beyond it.

Author : Richard L. Millett,Jennifer S. Holmes,Orlando J. Pérez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317908425

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Latin American Democracy by Richard L. Millett,Jennifer S. Holmes,Orlando J. Pérez Pdf

More than thirty years have passed since Latin America began the arduous task of transitioning from military-led rule to democracy. In this time, more countries have moved toward the institutional bases of democracy than at any time in the region’s history. Nearly all countries have held free, competitive elections and most have had peaceful alternations in power between opposing political forces. Despite these advances, however, Latin American countries continue to face serious domestic and international challenges to the consolidation of stable democratic governance. The challenges range from weak political institutions, corruption, legacies of militarism, transnational crime, and globalization among others. In the second edition of Latin American Democracy contributors – both academics and practitioners, North Americans, Latin Americans, and Spaniards—explore and assess the state of democratic consolidation in Latin America by focusing on the specific issues and challenges confronting democratic governance in the region. This thoroughly updated revision provides new chapters on: the environment, decentralization, the economy, indigenous groups, and the role of China in the region.

Author : University of Miami. North-South Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610295458

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Security, Democracy, and Development in U.S-Latin American Relation by University of Miami. North-South Center Pdf

Author : John Samuel Fitch
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0801859182

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The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America by John Samuel Fitch Pdf

The book tackles the subject of the military and politics in Latin America from a broad historical perspective, drawing on literature in the field and other information based on personal interviews with officers.

Author : Mark Ungar
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421429403

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Policing Democracy by Mark Ungar Pdf

2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association Latin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any standard—the region’s homicide rate is the world’s highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics harking back to the repressive pre-1980s dictatorships. In Policing Democracy, Mark Ungar situates Latin America at a crossroads between its longstanding form of reactive policing and a problem-oriented approach based on prevention and citizen participation. Drawing on extensive case studies from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, he reviews the full spectrum of areas needing reform: criminal law, policing, investigation, trial practices, and incarceration. Finally, Policing Democracy probes democratic politics, power relations, and regional disparities of security and reform to establish a framework for understanding the crisis and moving beyond it.

Author : David R Mares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429981203

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Civil-military Relations by David R Mares Pdf

This book analyses the normative and institutional aspects of the civil-military relationship to demonstrate that it is the politics of the relationship rather than its form that influences the likelihood of democracy and regional peace. It is useful for policymakers, academics, and general readers.

Author : Enrique Desmond Arias
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807877371

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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro by Enrique Desmond Arias Pdf

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely considers the social interactions and criminal networks that are at the heart of the challenges to democratic governance in urban Brazil. Much of the violence is the result of highly organized, politically connected drug dealers feeding off of the global cocaine market. Rising crime prompts repressive police tactics, and corruption runs deep in state structures. The rich move to walled communities, and the poor are caught between the criminals and often corrupt officials. Arias argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption. The challenge, he suggests, is to build new social networks committed to controlling violence locally. Arias also offers comparative insights that apply this analysis to other cities in Brazil and throughout Latin America.