REQUIRED
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Samuel P. Huntington, "The Torturer Problem" in
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), p. 211-31.
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Samuel P. Huntington, "The Praetorian Problem,"
in The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), p. 231-53.
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Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics:
Brazil and the Southern Cone (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1988), p. 68-145.
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Wendy Hunter, "Politicians against Soldiers: Contesting
the Military in Postauthoritarian Brazil," Comparative Politics,
July 1995 (27):425-43.
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Consuelo Cruz and Rut Diamint, "The New Military
Autonomy in Latin America," Journal of Democracy, October
1998, 8 (4):115-27.
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Deborah L. Norden, "Democracy and Military Control
in Venezuela: From Subordination to Insurrection," Latin American
Research Review, 1998, 33 (2):143-63.
- Larry Rohter, "Ecuador's Coup Alerts Region to a
Resurgent Military," The New York Times, January 30, 2000.
RECOMMENDED
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The New York Times, Editorial, "Ecuador's
Endangered Democracy," January 25, 2000.
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The New York Times, Larry Rohter, "Bitter
Indians Let Ecuador Know Fight Isn't Over," January 27, 2000.
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Juan Rial, "Armies and Civil Society in Latin America,"
in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., Civil-Military Relations
and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996),
p. 47-66.
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Louis A. Goodman, "Military Roles Past and Present,"
in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., Civil-Military Relations
and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996),
p. 30-43.
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José Nun, "The Middle Class Military Coup Revisited,"
in Abrahama Lowenthal and J. S. Fitch, Armies and Politics in
Latin America (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1976): 59-95.
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Juan E. Mendez, "Accountability for past abuses,"
Human Rights Quarterly, May 1997, 19 (2):255-82.
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Alain Rouquié, "Demilitarization and the Institutionalization
of Military-Dominated Polities in Latin America," in Guillermo O'Donnell,
Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions
from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986): 108-136.
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Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds.,
Constructing Democratic Governance: Mexico, Central America,
and the Caribbean in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996), p. 3-63, 135-158 (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala,
and Haiti).
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Lawrence Weschler, A Miracle, A Universe: Settling
Accounts with Torturers (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1990).
Abraham F. Lowenthal and J. S. Fitch, Armies and Politics in Latin
America (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986).
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Michel S. Laguerre, The military and society
in Haiti (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993).
- Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds.,
Constructing Democratic Governance: Mexico, Central America, and
the Caribbean in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996), p. 3-63, 135-158 (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala,
and Haiti).
LITERARY OVERLAY
- The movie Z: A Political Tragedy in Greece.
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General Pinochet after the 1973 coup, General Pinochet
retired, mass arrests in the streets of Santiago, Mother demonstrating
at the Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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Mothers of the disappeared hold a
vigil in Argentina.
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Chilean army unit.
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