Crafting civilian control of the military in Venezuela
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: Harold A. Trinkunas.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Civil-military relations -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century; Democratization -- Venezuela; Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Democracy and civilian control of the armed forces : Venezuela in comparative perspective; title: A lost opportunity : the failure of democratization in Venezuela, 1945@-1948; title: The 1958 transition to democracy in Venezuela : strategizing civilian control; title: Statecraft and military subordination in Venezuela, 1959@-1973; title: Civilian control under fire : resisting challenges from the military in Venezuela, 1992; title: Revolutionizing civil-military relations? Hugo Chávez and the fifth republic in Venezuela, 1998@-2004; title: Assessing the relationship between civilian control of the military and the consolidation of democracy.