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Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

By: David R. Mares

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Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

By: David R. Mares

David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive their displeasure if the costs exceed what they are willing to pay. Violent Peace proposes a conceptual scheme for analyzing militarized conflict and supports this framework with evidence from the history of Latin America.

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Columbia University Press

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0231111878

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Civil-military Relations

Building Democracy And Regional Security In Latin America, Southern Asia, And Central Europe

By: David R Mares

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Civil-military Relations

Building Democracy And Regional Security In Latin America, Southern Asia, And Central Europe

By: David R Mares

This book analyses the normative and institutional aspects of the civil-military relationship to demonstrate that it is the politics of the relationship rather than its form that influences the likelihood of democracy and regional peace. It is useful for policymakers, academics, and general readers.

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Routledge

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0429981201

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Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998

By: David R. Mares,David Scott Palmer

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Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998

By: David R. Mares,David Scott Palmer

In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three years and the interplay of multiple actors and factors to achieve a definitive peace agreement, thus ending what had been the region's oldest unresolved border dispute. This conflict and its resolution provide insights about other unresolved and/or disputed land and sea boundaries which involve almost every country in the Western Hemisphere. Drawing on extensive field research at the time of the dispute and during its aftermath, including interviews with high-ranking diplomats and military officials, Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace is the first book-length study to relate this complex border dispute and its resolution to broader theories of conflict. The findings emphasize an emerging leadership approach in which individuals are not mere captives of power and institutions. In addition, the authors illuminate an overlap in national and international arenas in shaping effective articulation, perception, and selection of policy. In the “new” democratic Latin America that emerged in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, historical memory remains influential in shaping the context of disputes, in spite of presumed U.S. post–Cold War influence. This study offers important, broader perspectives on a hemisphere still rife with boundary disputes as a rising number of people and products (including arms) pass through these borderlands.

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University of Texas Press

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0292742770

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9780292742772

United States and Chile

Coming in From the Cold

By: David R. Mares,Francisco Rojas Aravena

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United States and Chile

Coming in From the Cold

By: David R. Mares,Francisco Rojas Aravena

The United States and Chile is the ideal introduction to U.S.- Chilean relations. From our strained Cold War relations and the Allende assassination to current democratic and economic development, senior scholars Mares and Aravena deftly trace the path of the relationship from early partners, through tense Cold War stand-offs, to the slowly warming relations of the present. The authors include information on General Augusto Pinochet's human rights violations, his current prosecution for them, and the United State's complicity in bringing him to power. Chile is only just now recovering from decades of political instability and government abuses, and this volume provides a thorough look back, and an informed vision of the future.

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Routledge

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1135317089

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9781135317089

Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Venezuela in Context

By: David R. Mares

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Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Venezuela in Context

By: David R. Mares

It is widely thought that state ownership of natural resources, oil and natural gas in particular, causes countries to fall under the sway of the “resource curse.” In such cases, governments allegedly display “resource nationalism,” which destabilizes the economy, society, and politics. In this book, David R. Mares dispels these beliefs and develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. Mares examines variations in energy policy across a wide range of countries, underscoring the fact that in most of the world outside the United States, subsoil natural resources are owned by the state. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo Chávez. Mares demonstrates that the key factors that influence energy policy are the inclusiveness of the political system, the level of competitiveness within policy making, and the characteristics of individual leaders. Domestic politics, not state ownership, determines the effectiveness and efficiency of energy policies: the “resource curse” is avoidable. Drawing on these findings, Mares reconceptualizes resource nationalism, arguing that government intervention into resource extraction is legitimate as long as the benefits are shared through the provision of public goods. Featuring a sophisticated grasp of both Latin American politics and energy policy, this book sheds new light on why some governments are responsible stewards of natural resources while others appropriate national wealth for partisan or private benefit.

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Columbia University Press

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0231554796

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9780231554794

Regional Orders

Building Security in a New World

By: David A. Lake,Patrick M. Morgan

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Regional Orders

Building Security in a New World

By: David A. Lake,Patrick M. Morgan

Conflict among nations for forty-five years after World War II was dominated by the major bipolar struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. With the end of the Cold War; states in differing legions of the world are taking their affairs more into their own hands and working out new arrangements for security that best suit their needs. This trend toward new &"regional orders&" is the subject of this book, which seeks both to document the emergence and strengthening of these new regional arrangements and to show how international relations theory needs to be modified to take adequate account of their salience in the world today. Rather than treat international politics as everywhere the same, or each region as unique, this hook adopts a comparative approach. It recognizes that, while regions vary widely in their characteristics, comparative analysis requires a common typology and set of causal variables. It presents theories of regional order that both generalize about regions and predict different patterns of conflict and cooperation from their individual traits. The editors conclude that, in the new world of regional orders, the quest for universal principles of foreign policy by great powers like the United States is chimerical and dangerous. Regional orders differ, and policy artist accommodate these differences if it is to succeed. Contributors are Brian L. Job, Edmund J. Keller, Yuen Foong Khong, David A. Lake, Steven E. Lobell, David R. Mares, Patrick M. Nlotgan. Paul A. Papayoanou, David J. Pervin, Philip G. Roeder, Richard Rosecrance and Peter Schott, Susan Shirk, Etel Solingen, and Arthur A. Stein.

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Penn State Press

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0271043261

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9780271043265

Aspirational Power

Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence

By: David R. Mares,Harold A. Trinkunas

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Aspirational Power

Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence

By: David R. Mares,Harold A. Trinkunas

Brazil’s soft power path to major power status. The largest country in South America by land mass and population, Brazil has been marked since its independence by a belief that it has the potential to play a major role on the global stage. Set apart from the rest of the hemisphere by culture, language, and history, Brazil has also been viewed by its neighbors as a potential great power and, at times, a threat. But even though domestic aspirations and foreign perceptions have held out the prospect for Brazil becoming a major power, the country has lacked the capabilities—particularly on the military and economic dimensions—to pursue a traditional path to greatness. Aspirational Power examines Brazil as an emerging power. It explains Brazil’s present emphasis on using soft power through a historical analysis of Brazil’s three past attempts to achieve major power status. Though these efforts have fallen short, this book suggests that Brazil will continue to try to emerge, but that it will only succeed when its domestic institutions provide a solid and attractive foundation for the deployment of its soft power abroad. Aspirational Power concludes with concrete recommendations for how Brazil might improve its strategy, and why the great powers, including the United States, should respond positively to Brazil’s emergence.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815727968

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Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

By: David R. Mares

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Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

By: David R. Mares

This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin Americas contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or Colombia-Ecuador 2008) analysts and the press ask, "how could that happen here?" Yet the official uses of military force in interstate relations are significantly more prevalent than most analysts within and outside the region understand, and the region is facing new and potentially destabilizing challenges. It is the contention of this book that mitigating the threat raised by militarized interstate relations requires understanding the various ways in which military force can be employed short of war; this in turn requires illuminating the decision making process that produces militarization of a disagreement, considering options for dissuading the decision makers from choosing to militarize and limiting escalations when militarization does occur.

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Routledge

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1351224409

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Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations

By: David W. Dent,Larman C. Wilson

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Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations

By: David W. Dent,Larman C. Wilson

The Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations covers the changing world of inter-American and international organizations that have played an important role in bilateral and multilateral efforts to solve a wide range of problems that have confronted the nations of the Western Hemisphere. The Latin American region is clearly more integrated regionally and internationally than in previous decades and is better prepared to confront a broad range of problems—trade, development, illicit drugs, terrorism and guerrilla activity, health, environment, democratization, trade, human rights, intervention, electoral assistance, peacekeeping and conflict resolutions, migration, border conflicts, corruption, and energy independence—that governments and non-governmental organizations face in the 21st century. The role of the United States in Latin America has clearly faded since the end of the Cold War and the second edition of this book fills a large void in explaining the complexities of inter-American organizations and their activities since the first edition was completed in the late 1990s. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations covers the history of through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Inter-American Organizations.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810878615

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Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

By: Richard David Semba

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Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

By: Richard David Semba

The Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology is the first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. The author provides important links between the epidemic of obesity and implications it has for eye disease and blindness. The volume also includes chapters addressing nutritional aspects of preventing eye disease in diabetes mellitus and other optical neuropathies, making this a unique book.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1592599796

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Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

By: David R. Mares

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Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

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Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998

By: David R. Mares,David Scott Palmer

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Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998

By: David R. Mares,David Scott Palmer

An examination of the three-year border war between Peru and Ecuador reveals new approaches to Latin American leadership and a transformed power structure that integrates domestic and international factors

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0292735693

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Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Venezuela in Context

By: David R. Mares

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Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Venezuela in Context

By: David R. Mares

Introduction: Resource Nationalism and the Political Economy of Energy Policy -- The Parameters of Nationalism and Energy Policy -- The Road to Diverse Partnerships under Nationalism -- Explaining Oil and Gas Policy -- Venezuela's Political Economy 1989- -- Scoring the Variables -- Explaining Energy Policy Under a Collapsing Punto Fijo -- Explaining Energy Policy in the Bolivarian Revolution -- Conclusions: Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy.

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Regional Orders

Building Security in a New World

By: David A. Lake,Patrick M. Morgan

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Regional Orders

Building Security in a New World

By: David A. Lake,Patrick M. Morgan

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Violent Peace

Violent Peace

Civil-military Relations

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Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

United States and Chile

United States and Chile

Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Regional Orders

Regional Orders

Aspirational Power

Aspirational Power

Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations

Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations

Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

Violent Peace

Violent Peace

Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace

Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Regional Orders

Regional Orders

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