Centralism and Nationalism in Latin America

Between two ages : America's role in the technetronic era

IN the early 1960's a great deal of “scare” literature was produced concerning Latin America. The titles and subtitles of many of the books and articles written during the period help bear this contention out: “The Eleventh Hour,” “Reform or Revolution,” “Evolution or Chaos.” The concern of scholars and public officials, stemming principally from the Cuban revolution, was that Latin America was about to explode in violent upheaval, that unless democratic reforms were quick in forthcoming, the Latin American nations would soon be the victims of Castro-Communist takeovers. The “one-minute-to-midnight” mentality shaped not only a great deal of official thinking and policy with regard to Latin America during the 1960's, but also permeated, in varying degrees of sophistication, the large body of development literature dealing with the area.

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Toward a Framework for the Study of Political Change in the Iberic-Latin Tradition: The Corporative Model

This article offers a comparative analysis of Spain and Mexico’s institutional evolution to elucidate how history matters in very specific ways. The main argument is that Mexico and Spain s...

Comparing Difficult Democratic Legacies: Institutional Continuity and State Formation in Spain and Mexico

En los ultimos anos las naciones sudamericanas parecen estar abocadas a aumentar las compras de armamentos y, simultaneamente, estan experimentando una reanudacion de los conflictos limitrofes y territoriales. Esta tendencia evoluciona hacia una emergente carrera armamentista. Tradicionalmente, y en especial durante el siglo XX, se ha considerado como pacifico al continente sudamericano. Existe un marcado contraste entre el turbulento siglo XIX en comparacion con el presente siglo, donde solo ha habido dos conflictos armados de envergadura (la Guerra del Chaco, 1932-35, y la confrontacion peruano-ecuatoriana de 1941). La paz de America del Sur se debe a dos factores principales: el predominio de los Estados Unidos dentro del sistema interamericano desde 1899 (Silvert y Blanchman, 1976; Child, 1980 (a)) y la tendencia a recurrir a la solucion pacifica de los conflictos entre los paises de America Latina, que ha primado durante los ultimos ochenta anos. La ultima decada ha mostrado que el efecto de dichos factores ha tenido un impacto decreciente en Sudamerica. Janowitz explico teoricamente el problema de la erosion continua de la presencia de los Estados Unidos en el hemisferio (Janowitz, 1974), particularmente en la zona sur. Segun Janowitz, el Pacto de la OEA-Rio es un tipico caso de sistema militar desestabilizante. Este tipo de alianzas son pactos formados por una o mas potencias desarrolladas y por algunos aliados debiles y poco desarrollados. De parte de las primeras existe un cierto grado de compromiso "directo o indirecto en la seguridad interna del pais asistido" (Janowitz, 1980, p. 486). Dicha ayuda militar de-

Competencia armamentista en América del Sur: 1970-1980

(1973). The City as a Source of Regional Economic Disparity in Latin America. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 66-84.

Centralism and Nationalism in Latin America

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Between two ages : America's role in the technetronic era

Toward a Framework for the Study of Political Change in the Iberic-Latin Tradition: The Corporative Model

Comparing Difficult Democratic Legacies: Institutional Continuity and State Formation in Spain and Mexico

Competencia armamentista en América del Sur: 1970-1980

The City as a Source of Regional Economic Disparity in Latin America

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