Suchergebnisse

La banalización de la vida en sociedad tiene repercusiones en el sistema político; y, riñe con los ideales democráticos que inspiran al estado de derecho. La mercantilización de la política y la promoción electoral deviene en apatía ciudadana, desinstitucionalización de los partidos políticos y el surgimiento de líderes populistas, carentes de ideología, de programas reales de gobierno, que dentro de un presidencialismo multipartidista atomizado profundizan el problema, a la vez, permite visualizar el punto desde el cual se han de plantear alternativas. A manera de conclusión, se plantea la propuesta de dar un giro hacia modelos parlamentarios que fortalezcan a los partidos políticos como actores principales; no obstante, se trabaja también, sobre el sistema electoral planteado como un sistema institucional propio y complejo, aunque no por ello incontrolable.

"Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America elucidates why many state-actors in the Global South exhibit a remarkable degree of policy continuity in their external behavior despite structural incentives for change. This book contends that the theoretical notion of strategic culture is instructive to explain such a puzzle. It extends the application of strategic culture beyond the policy of nuclear deterrence among great powers into other equally strategic areas of policy, such as diplomacy, political economy, regional international institutions, legal norms, politico-military institutions, and different security agendas beyond war and peace, for example, the illicit drug-trade and peacekeeping missions. The overall contribution of this book is three-fold: first, it rescues, updates, and expands the original conceptual and theoretical dimensions of strategic culture. Second, it extrapolates further theoretical implications of the concept through its application to five policy domains in Latin America beyond the original application of the strategic culture perspective to nuclear weapons strategy among great powers in the 1970s. Third, it draws together the theoretical and policy implications of the strategic cultures in Latin America and identifies possible applications for other peripheral, non-great power policy areas and issues in the Global South. This book will be of interest to academics, graduate and undergraduate students, policy analysts, and practitioners of Latin American Studies, International Relations Theory and Security Studies"--