Table of Contents


INTRODUCTION
9
COUP D'ÉTAT, INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT AND PROCESS OF POLITICAL TRANSITION
Jesús de Andrés Sanz
15
BULGARIA AND THE ARMED CONFLICT IN CENTRAL AMERICA, 1979-1989. NEW ARCHIVAL SOURCES
Jordan Baev
33
FROM THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY TO THE SUB-REGIONAL SECURITY COMMUNITY? AN INTERIM BALANCE SHEET OF THE MERCOSUR
Klaus Bodemer
46
THE INSTITUTIONAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE VENEZUELAN ARMED FORCES, NATIONAL AND REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Tania Delgado
67
RETHINKING THE BRAZILIAN ARMED FORCES: NO ROLE IN SIGHT, WHAT FUNCTION THEN?
Rene Armand Dreifuss
89
LATIN AMERICA: THE PRESENT PATTERN OF INDUSTRIAL COLONIALISM
Victor Manuel Figueroa Sepulveda
114
THE LATIN AMERICAN ARMED FORCES AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFIC: THE CASE OF BRAZIL
Luis Alexandre Fuccille
137
THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, FACING THE INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IN SANTO DOMINGO, 1964-1965
Nidia Elsa Galé
146
THE HEMISPHERIC LANDSCAPE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
Isabel Jaramillo Edwards
167
GLOBALIZATION AND NEOLIBERALISM
David M. Kotz
182
THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ROLE OF CUBA IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Katarzyna Krzywicka
204
THE ARGENTINE FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY OF THE SIXTIES AND THE PRESENCE OF THE MILITARY SECTORS AS A POWER FACTOR, 1958-1966
Maria de Monserrat Llairó, Raimundo Siepe
224
CHINA'S ECONOMIC INTERACTION WITH THE PACIFIC ASIAN REGION IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBALIZATION AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON REGIONAL SECURITY
Vasily Mikheev
236
TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA IN THE U.S.-MEXICAN RELATIONS AND THE COMING OF THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR OF 1846-1848
Constantine Miniar-Beloroutchev
261
THE ARMY AND POLITICS IN INDIA
Arun Mohanty
276
THE GROWTH OF CLERICALISM IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY: DANGEROUS TENDENCIES
Sergey Mozgovoy
288
THE EXPERIENCE OF MILITARY REGIMES AND PRESENT DAY RUSSIA
Evgeny Pashentsev
302
DISMANTLING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY: NEOPOPULISM AND REORIENTATION OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN VENEZUELA
Orlando J. Pérez
326
ARGENTINA, WORLD WAR II, AND THE ENTRY OF NAZI WAR CRIMINALS
Raanan Rein
349
MILITARY SUBORDINATIONS: DREAMS OF A NIGHT OF DEMOCRACY (FORMS OF MILITARY PARTICIPATION IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS)
Héctor Luis Saint-Pierre, Daniel Zirker
370
RUSSIA AND CHINA: PARTNERS FOR PEACE, STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Mikhail Titarenko
389
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
399
INDEX OF NAMES
409


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