1st Edition

Militarization And The International Arms Race In Latin America

By Augusto Varas Copyright 1986
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Military conflicts and dictatorships in Latin America are the main consequences of the increasingly autonomous role of the armed forces in the region, asserts noted scholar Augusto Varas, and international factors related to the expansion of weapon industries in the North and the increasing flow of financial resources to Latin America are accelerating the arms race. Varas discusses the historical... Read more

Introduction 1 The Role of the Armed Forces in Latin American Societies 2 A Corporatist Ideology for the Latin American 3 The Militarization of Latin America 4 The Arms Race in Latin America 5 The Transfer of Military Technology from Developed Countries 6 Perceptions of Security and Conflict and the Arms Race.7 Military Conflicts and Regional Peace Agreements 8 The Armed Forces and the Military Regime in Chile .9 Demilitarization, Disarmament, and Democracy

Biography

<P>Augusto Varas is a professor at FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences), Santiago, Chile. He has served as a consultant to UNESCO's division of human rights, the UN University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.</P>