Verfasst von:	Jaskoski, Maiah
Titel:	Military politics and democracy in the Andes
Verf.angabe:	Maiah Jaskoski
Verlagsort:	Baltimore, Md.
Verlag:	Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
Jahr:	2013
Umfang:	XV, 288 S
Illustrationen:	graph. Darst., Kt.
Format:	24 cm
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-279) and index
Inhalt:	Military mission performance in Latin AmericaThe problem -- Challenges to security and democratic civil-military relations in the andes -- Explaining military mission performance in democratic Latin America -- Case selection: a focus on the army in Peru and Ecuador -- The data -- Overview of the analysis -- The context: civil-military relations in democratic Peru and Ecuador -- High constraints on Peru's military -- Low constraints on Ecuador's military -- Post-transition army mission performance in Peru and Ecuador, 1980s-90s -- Putting sovereignty before policing -- Deviations: contradictions in missions and sovereignty neglect -- Alternative explanations -- Mission constraint and neglect of counterinsurgency: Peru since 2000 -- Staying in the barracks -- Restrictions on army autonomy -- Mission overload and neglect of border defense: Ecuador since 2000 -- Neglecting a porous border while policing the interior -- Overwhelming security responsibilities -- Battalions for hire: private army contracts in Peru and Ecuador -- Pressures from the top -- Local client influence -- Limits to client influence -- Comparative perspectives on military mission performance -- Colombia: tolerance of policing amid ongoing insurgency -- Venezuela: mission loss, organizational trauma, and narrow mission beliefs -- Bolivia: broad mission beliefs despite trauma -- Extreme executive control: recent trends in Venezuela and Bolivia-- Reflections on assigning militaries police work -- Appendix A. Research methodology.
	Military mission performance in Latin America -- The problem -- Challenges to security and democratic civil-military relations in the andes -- Explaining military mission performance in democratic Latin America -- Case selection: a focus on the army in Peru and Ecuador -- The data -- Overview of the analysis -- The context: civil-military relations in democratic Peru and Ecuador -- High constraints on Peru's military -- Low constraints on Ecuador's military -- Post-transition army mission performance in Peru and Ecuador, 1980s-90s -- Putting sovereignty before policing -- Deviations: contradictions in missions and sovereignty neglect -- Alternative explanations -- Mission constraint and neglect of counterinsurgency: Peru since 2000 -- Staying in the barracks -- Restrictions on army autonomy -- Mission overload and neglect of border defense: Ecuador since 2000 -- Neglecting a porous border while policing the interior -- Overwhelming security responsibilities -- Battalions for hire: private army contracts in Peru and Ecuador -- Pressures from the top -- Local client influence -- Limits to client influence -- Comparative perspectives on military mission performance -- Colombia: tolerance of policing amid ongoing insurgency -- Venezuela: mission loss, organizational trauma, and narrow mission beliefs -- Bolivia: broad mission beliefs despite trauma -- Extreme executive control: recent trends in Venezuela and Bolivia-- Reflections on assigning militaries police work -- Appendix A. Research methodology.
ISBN:	1-4214-0907-0
	978-1-4214-0908-5
	1-4214-0908-9
	978-1-4214-0907-8
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	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz383609623inh.htm
Schlagwörter:	(g)Andenstaaten    / (g)Ecuador    / (g)Peru    / (s)Demokratie    / (s)Sicherheitspolitik    / (s)Militärpolitik    / (z)Geschichte 1980-2013
	(s)Militärpolitik    / (s)Militär    / (s)Militärmission    / (s)Loyalität    / (s)Demokratisierung    / (s)Innerstaatlicher Konflikt    / (s)Grenzschutz    / (s)Soldat    / (s)Sicherheitspolitik    / (g)Andenstaaten
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	MI 81940
K10plus-PPN:	72640604X