Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; this volume deepens our understanding of the nature and extent of state governance in Latin America.
State capacity is multidimensional, with all elements interacting to produce stable governance and security. As such, a collection of scholars and practitioners use an explicit interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the contributions of history, political science, economics, public policy, military studies, and other fields to gain a rounded understanding of the link between security and democracy.
Democracy and Security in Latin America is divided in two sections:
- Part 1 focuses on the challenges to governance and key institutions such as police, courts, armed forces. and the prison system.
- Part 2 features country case studies that illustrate particularly important security challenges and various means by which the state has confronted them.
Democracy and Security in Latin America should appeal not only to those seeking to learn more about the capacity of the democratic state in Latin America to effectively provide public security in times of stress, but to all those curious about the reality that a democracy must have security to function.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Gabriel Marcella, Orlando J. Pérez, and Brian Fonseca
Part 1: Institutions
1. The Crisis of Governance
Phil Williams
2. Policing
Lucía Dammert
3. Judicial System
Mark Ungar
4. Prisons
Jonathan D. Rosen
5. Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces
Gabriel Marcella
Part 2: Country Studies
6. Colombia: Security Challenges and State Capacity
Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres
7. Mexico: Dilemma between Democratic Recession and Internal Security
Raúl Benítez Manaut
8. Brazil: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations and Security
Luis Bitencourt
9. Peru: Counterinsurgency and the Rule of Law during Re-democratization
Maiah Jaskoski
10. Cuba: The Exceptional Case
Brian Latell
11. Venezuela: The Erosion of Security Capacity
John Polga-Hecimovich
12. Argentina: Legality or Disobedience?
Rut Diamint
13. Chile: A Secure Democracy?
G. Alexander Crowther
14. Conclusion
Gabriel Marcella, Orlando J. Pérez, and Brian Fonseca
