Democracies at war against drugs : the military mystique in Brazil and Mexico / Anaís Medeiros Passos.
2022
HV5840.B6
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Title
Democracies at war against drugs : the military mystique in Brazil and Mexico / Anaís Medeiros Passos.
ISBN
9783031113277 (electronic bk.)
3031113276 (electronic bk.)
9783031113260
3031113268
3031113276 (electronic bk.)
9783031113260
3031113268
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-11327-7 doi
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HV5840.B6
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.1/33650981
Summary
"In an era when violence in Latin America remains widespread, we still lack a sufficient understanding of military crime fighting in the region. Anais M. Passos's well written and richly detailed study helps fill the gap. This is an excellent study that deserves to be widely read and debated." --David Pion-Berlin, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, USA This book provides an in-depth account of military operations against drug gangs and organizations in two of the biggest countries in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico. Recent studies on drug wars have detailed case studies on the war on drugs but do not focus on the role of the army in such policies. Publications that do drive attention to the military in such situations are usually from human rights organizations or the press and are therefore not scholarly works. There are therefore no recent academic books dealing with the role of the military in the fight against drugs in Latin America. This book aims to fill this gap. It also offers an empirical and theoretical examination of the issue of the role of the military (rather than the police) on national soil--the army being generally devoted to interventions abroad, and the police, to law enforcement on the national ground. The book is also the first work to look at high-level negotiations between military and civilian elites that define the conditions for the use of force during military operations. It provides a theoretically informed understanding of contemporary security politics in Brazil and Mexico. Anaís Medeiros Passos is Associate Professor of Political Science in Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CERI series in international relations and political economy. 2945-6088
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Armed Forces and Domestic Missions in Brazil and Mexico (1960-2000)
3. The Politics of Militarization
4. The Military Mystique
5. The Military's Agency Patterns
6. The Use of Violence by Military Personnel
7. Conclusions.
2. The Armed Forces and Domestic Missions in Brazil and Mexico (1960-2000)
3. The Politics of Militarization
4. The Military Mystique
5. The Military's Agency Patterns
6. The Use of Violence by Military Personnel
7. Conclusions.