TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaskoski,Maiah
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Military politics and democracy in the Andes
SN  - 9781421409085
AV  - UA637 .J33 2013
U1  - 322/.50985 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, MD
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - Ejercito
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Peru
KW  - Internal security
KW  - National security
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421409085/
ER  -