Managing the Military

Issue Date Winter 1990
Volume 1
Issue 1
Page Numbers 113-117
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A review of Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone, by Alfred Stepan.

About the Author

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.

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