Militarism In Mexico

Author : Jeffrey S. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822032051815

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Militarism in Mexico by Jeffrey S. Cole Pdf

Mexican society is becoming militarized due to the increased use of the Mexican military in domestic affairs. This militarization is the result of three factors: the internal focus of the military, the drug war, and corruption. The internal focus of the Mexican military is based on doctrine. Mexico's drug war began in 1986 when U.S. President Reagan convinced their government that the trafficking of drugs constituted a National security threat. Corruption is pervasive in Mexico due to the combination of seven decades of authoritarian rule by the hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the associated effects from transnational drug trafficking. The army represents the last publicly respected institution in Mexico. During the past three years, almost the entire law enforcement apparatus to combat drug trafficking has been replaced with military soldiers and numerous key political appointees and governmental positions have been filled with Mexican generals and colonels. There are few national interests more profoundly consequential to the United States than the political stability and general welfare of Mexico. The militarization and changing civil military relations in Mexico is an important aspect in U.S. Mexico relations and must be considered impossible policy changes.

Author : Edwin Lieuwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Civil supremacy over the military
ISBN : UVA:X000239464

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Mexican Militarism by Edwin Lieuwen Pdf

This book examines the unique role a revolutionary army plays in the politics of Mexico. It discusses the political process which characterizes revolutions and revolutionary regimes in the twentieth century. The general problem to which the author directs his analysis is that of introducing civilian control into a political structure still dominated by the generals who successfully brought about the Revolution and who supposedly represent its ideals.

Author : Ben Fallaw,Terry Rugeley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816520428

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Forced Marches by Ben Fallaw,Terry Rugeley Pdf

Forced Marches is a collection of innovative essays that analyze how the military experience molded Mexican citizens in the years between the initial war for independence in 1810 and the consolidation of the revolutionary order in the 1940s. The contributors—well-regarded scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom—offer fresh interpretations of the Mexican military, caciquismo, and the enduring pervasiveness of violence in Mexican society. Employing the approaches of the new military history, which emphasizes the relationships between the state, society, and the “official” militaries and “unofficial” militias, these provocative essays engage (and occasionally do battle with) recent scholarship on the early national period, the Reform, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution. When Mexico first became a nation, its military and militias were two of the country’s few major institutions besides the Catholic Church. The army and local provincial militias functioned both as political pillars, providing institutional stability of a crude sort, and as springboards for the ambitions of individual officers. Military service provided upward social mobility, and it taught a variety of useful skills, such as mathematics and bookkeeping. In the postcolonial era, however, militia units devoured state budgets, spending most of the national revenue and encouraging locales to incur debts to support them. Men with rifles provided the principal means for maintaining law and order, but they also constituted a breeding-ground for rowdiness and discontent. As these chapters make clear, understanding the history of state-making in Mexico requires coming to terms with its military past.

Author : Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Mexico
ISBN : NYPL:33433067350102

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Mexico in Revolution by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Pdf

Author : Thomas Rath
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469608358

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Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 by Thomas Rath Pdf

At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarization was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at political suppression, while officers meddled in provincial politics, engaged in corruption, and crafted official history, all against a backdrop of sustained popular protest and debate. Using newly available materials from military, intelligence, and diplomatic archives, Rath weaves together an analysis of national and regional politics, military education, conscription, veteran policy, and popular protest. In doing so, he challenges dominant interpretations of successful, top-down demilitarization and questions the image of the post-1940 PRI regime as strong, stable, and legitimate. Rath also shows how the army's suppression of students and guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s and the more recent militarization of policing have long roots in Mexican history.

Author : Barbara Sutton,Sandra Morgen,Julie Novkov
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813543604

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Security Disarmed by Barbara Sutton,Sandra Morgen,Julie Novkov Pdf

In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization.

Author : Jonathan D. Caverley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107063983

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Democratic Militarism by Jonathan D. Caverley Pdf

Examines the political and economic circumstances which lead democracies to build up their militaries and involve themselves in armed conflict.

Author : Nami Kim,Wonhee Anne Joh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498579223

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Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism by Nami Kim,Wonhee Anne Joh Pdf

Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people’s lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and violence intersect to threaten women’s lives, especially women of color’s lives, and the broader environment upon which women’s lives are dependent. Most of all, this volume challenges the readers to understand the U.S. as the warfare, counterterror, carceral state and its devastating effects on the everyday lives of women, especially women of color, locally, nationally, and globally. This volume also helps readers understand the racialized gendered impacts of U.S. militarism in conjunction with the ongoing global economies of dispossession and militarized violence across the borders of nation-states. Interrogating U.S. military interventions in “other” countries can show how the U.S. War on Terror directly affects U.S. “domestic” affairs and daily lives in the United States.

Author : F. Martín
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403983589

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Militarist Peace in South America by F. Martín Pdf

Martin derives several realist and liberal propositions on the causes of war and peace and tests them, utilizing evidence from the peace in South America, as well as developing and discussing the "Militarist Peace" hypothesis.

Author : Roberto J González
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315424682

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Militarizing Culture by Roberto J González Pdf

Militarizing Culture is a rousing critique of the American warfare state by a leading cultural commentator. Roberto J. González reveals troubling trends in the post-9/11 era, as the military industrial complex infiltrates new arenas of cultural life, from economic and educational arenas to family relationships. One of the nation’s foremost critics of the Human Terrain System program, González makes passionate arguments against the engagement of social scientists and the use of anthropological theory and methods in military operations. Despite the pervasive presence of militarism and violence in our society, González insists that warfare is not an inevitable part of human nature, and charts a path toward the decommissioning of culture.

Author : Charlotte May Gradie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007304416

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The Tepehuan Revolt of 1616 by Charlotte May Gradie Pdf

Analyzes the Tepehuan revolt of 1616 and the events leading up to it from the perspectives of the Tepehuanes, the Spanish, and the Jesuit Order. Examines how the revolt influenced each of these groups, describing how the Spanish revised their frontier Indian policy, the Jesuits continued their missionary work, and the Tepehuanes lost their remaining vestiges of independence. Advances an alternative explanation for the revolt, claiming that Tepehuan leaders sought to regain control over their people and to revive intertribal warfare through which positions of leadership were traditionally acquired. Author information is not given. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Aaron W. Navarro
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271037059

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Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico, 1938-1954 by Aaron W. Navarro Pdf

"Analyzes the impact of the opposition candidacies in the Mexican presidential elections of 1940, 1946, and 1952 on the internal discipline and electoral dominance of the ruling Partido de la Revoluciâon Mexicana (PRM) and its successor, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mark Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350095472

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Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926-1929 by Mark Lawrence Pdf

Waged between 1926 and 1929, The Cristero War (also known as The Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada) resulted from a religious insurrectionary movement, which formed in protest of the Mexican Revolution's anticlerical constitution of 1917. It was arguably the most violent and divisive episode in Mexican history between the 1910 Revolution itself and the ongoing 'Narco Wars'. Filling in major gaps in our understanding of the conflict, Mark Lawrence explores both combatant and civilian experiences in the centre-west Mexican state of Zacatecas and its borderlands. Lawrence shows that, despite the centrality of this key region, it has received little scholarly attention compared with other states, such as Jalisco or Michoacán, which saw similar levels of conflict. In providing a greater understanding of Zacatecas during The Cristero War, Lawrence not only works to even out a major historiographical bias, but he also sheds greater light on the contours of religious conflict and political dissent in early 20th-century Mexican history. In particular, he illustrates how the dynamics of local politics had fundamentally affected the way that a broader movement was embraced (and rejected) at a sub-national level. As such, he offers all historians, irrespective of geographic or temporal specialization, a reminder not to make sweeping assumptions about the everyday nature of compliance and resistance at the local level.

Author : Thomas E. Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:30000010461436

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Area Handbook for Mexico by Thomas E. Weil Pdf

Author : Saburo Sugiyama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 052178056X

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Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership by Saburo Sugiyama Pdf

An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.