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Num. 22. Supremacy and civil control of Defence and the Armed Forces. Monitoring and proposals for Latin America

Documento CIDOB América Latina; 22

This study is an examination of the state of democratic civil supremacy as against militarism and military interventionism in Latin America. The first part of the work focuses on the levels, forms and causes of military interventionism in general, and specifically in Latin America, and attempts to determine, generically, what the present situation is with regard to the phenomenon of interventionism in the region. The second part (the larger part of the study) is mainly descriptive, and is aimed at encouraging and laying the foundations for future, more detailed studies of the subject. This part tackles the concept and scope of the most classic concept of civil supremacy as against military power, recalling its democratic foundations and approaching the subject by means of a number of different disciplines, particularly political science, sociology and the legal-constitutional aspect.

ISSN: 1697-7688 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8137 (online edition)

Lorenzo Cotino Hueso

Date of publication: 01/2008

Issue price: 8 €

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