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List of contents
Acknowledgments -- About the Editor and Contributors -- 1 Military Dictatorships in Retreat: Problems and Perspectives /Constantine P. Danopoulos -- 2 Obstacles to Disengagement and Democratization: Military Regimes in Benin and Burkina Faso /Claude E. Welch, Jr. -- 3 After the Coup: South Korea Creates a New Political Order /C.I. Eugene Kim -- 4 Polish Soldiers in Politics: The Party in Uniform? /Robin Alison Remington -- 5 Contemporary Civil-Military Relations Theory and De-Intervention: The Case of Panama /David Lewis Feldman -- 6 The Politics of Disengagement in Turkey: The Kemalist Tradition /James Brown -- 7 Back to the Barracks: The Brazilian Military's Style /Edmundo Campos Coelho -- 8 A Postmortem of the Institutional Military Regime in Peru /Carlos A. Astiz -- 9 Withdrawal in Disgrace: Decline of the Argentine Military, 1976-1983 /Dennis R. Gordon -- 10 Beating a Hasty Retreat: The Greek Military Withdraws from Power /Constantine P. Danopoulos -- 11 Withdrawal and After: A One-Way Street or a Revolving Door? /Constantine P. Danopoulos -- Index.
About the author
Constantine P. Danopoulos teaches Political Science at San José State University and Santa Clara University. A native of Greece, he received his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from San José State University and his Ph.D., also in Political Science, from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has written extensively on the subject of civil-military relations. His publications include: Warriors and Politicians in Modern Greece (1984) and many articles in journals such as Political Science Quarterly; Armed Forces and Society; the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, West European Politics, and Public Administration and Development. He is presently associate editor of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology.
Summary
This book presents case studies that highlight the different degrees of civilian supremacy, the forces that prompted military disengagement, the role of the armed forces, as well as difficulties and travails associated with return to the barracks and transition from military to civilian rule.
