Beyond Praetorianism: The Latin American Military in Transition

The post-Cold War world has presented Latin American militaries with new, unsettling realities: diminished threats from insurgencies, governments' inability to control the flow of information, the necessity of operating within a global economic system, and a lost ability by weaker states to manipulate external actors. These conditions are lacing military institutions under pressure to support effects at peace negotiation, to accept significant reductions in strength and budgets, to reduce their roles in the political process, and to re-examine their traditional immunities and autonomy. This volume examines all of these factors and offers possible scenarios for regional developments.