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United States Influence Contributing to Democracy's Surge in Latin America.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	United States Influence Contributing to Democracy's Surge in Latin America./
Author:	Aponte, Ricardo.
Description:	1 online resource (73 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International56-06(E).
Subject:	Latin American history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355215069

United States Influence Contributing to Democracy's Surge in Latin America.
Aponte, Ricardo.

United States Influence Contributing to Democracy's Surge in Latin America. - 1 online resource (73 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-06.

Thesis (M.A.)

Includes bibliographical references

United States Influence Contributing to Democracy's Surge in Latin America has a focus on the increased emphasis given by U.S. leadership to the targeted objectives for international student training in U.S. military schools. I suggest in my thesis that a concentrated effort to change the norms of foreign students began in the 1984-1986 time frame and that it has continued unabated to the present. I also argue that this effort is responsible for the stay-in-the-barracks attitude of Latin American militaries during periods of unrest since then. The body of this thesis presents a review of the professional development of Latin American militaries since their forming - post-independence from Spain and Portugal - to maturation at the end of the twentieth century. The narrative flows from the birth of a military antipolitics doctrine, a prevailing belief that the internal security of the nation was the primary responsibility of its armed forces, to the eventual acceptance of an apolitical foundation. A transformation that required the alteration of personal norms and beliefs within the military circles, which created an apolitical civil-military tendency in the hearts and minds of the military forces and resulted in armed forces that are better prepared for international responsibilities such as peace keeping operations and multilateral ready forces. Consideration should be given to the origins of Latin American nations. They were the result of a colonial past that lasted over three-hundred years and a legal foundation based on feudal European mores. For the last two hundred years, the ruling governments in Latin America alternated between autocracies, dictatorships, and democracies - which, with a few exceptions could be labeled as fractured, restricted, or perfunctory democracies. In addition, Latin America is a region where the resulting changes in governance were aided, sometimes instigated, by military forces sworn to protect their forming nation from internal and external -real or imagined- dangers to their governments. In their insular military academies, new officers learned a military doctrine that valued defense against perceived enemies. The resulting dogma was a belief that within their military officer corps rested the security of the nation, a dogma that was to become entrenched within the military elite by the twentieth century.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355215069Subjects--Topical Terms:

1181262
Latin American history.
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Electronic books.

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