Civil‐Military Relations in Contemporary Argentina
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Government and Opposition
- Vol. 19 (2) , 207-224
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1984.tb01040.x
Abstract
THE ISSUE OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS PRESENTS THE new Argentine government with several problems. One is the structuring of government, that is general staff relations. Moreover the new authorities must take a position in the short to medium term over the question of responsibility for the ‘dirty war’, the plundering of the public purse by the officer corps between 1976 and 1982 and the defeat in the war with Britain. And in the longer term they must confront the wider issue of how to both ‘civilianize’ the armed forces and ‘demilitarize’ civil society.Keywords
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