Was Political Realism the Theoretical Basis for the National Security Doctrine? Reflections on the Matter
Journal: Public Administration Research
Year: 2012

This paper will investigate to what extent the following idea, which became very popular during the last third of the twentieth century in Latin America, is true: that political realism was the ideological foundation of the National Security Doctrine. In other words, did the theorists of the National Security Doctrine inspire their postulates on key authors of this international relations paradigm? If so, did they use political realism to build their own political culture and their authoritarian