Product Description: This is a comparative examination of the politicized armed forces of Peru, Burma, Chile, Turkey, Algeria, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Nigeria, and Guatemala. The volume looks at the consequences of military rule for nation building and economic development, and also addresses the effects the rise of globalization on the military, as well as the role of political armies in the consolidation of civil politics and democratic governance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Latin America is in the grip of a double challenge--coping with what may be the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and the huge problems of poverty and inequality this has produced, while simultaneously consolidating its democratic transition, trying to recover from the traumas of many years of authoritarian rule and state terror...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Latin America has been one of the more industrialized parts of the developing world since the 1930s. Brazil even figures among the leading industrial economies in the world, representing a textbook case of industrialization in Latin America. This book dea