Papers by Anthony Pereira
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2012
L’annee 2014 marque le 50e anniversaire du coup d’Etat militaire qui renversa le gouvernement dem... more L’annee 2014 marque le 50e anniversaire du coup d’Etat militaire qui renversa le gouvernement democratique du president bresilien Joao Goulart et fut le debut de vingt-et-un ans de dictature militaire (1964-85). Les deux decennies suivantes s’accompagnerent de limitations rigoureuses des droits civiques, ainsi que de censures de la presse, du theâtre et du cinema. On y observa un usage systematique de la torture afin de reduire l’opposition au silence, et des mesures appuyees par l’Etat qui causerent la mort et la disparition de centaines d’opposants au regime. Le contexte actuel de retour memoriel, avec la mise en place des Commissions de la verite, nous invite a revisiter cette periode et la tres vaste litterature produite sur la question par des historiens, des sociologues, des politologues aux approches les plus diverses. Le debat reste intense, au Bresil mais aussi a l’etranger, dans les milieux du « bresilianisme ». Ce colloque international de deux jours sur la dictature bres...
The American Historical Review, 1999
Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on King's Research Portal is ... more Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on King's Research Portal is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Post-Print version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.
The world is becoming more multilateral, with established powers increasingly sharing decision-ma... more The world is becoming more multilateral, with established powers increasingly sharing decision-making with rising powers. At the same time, democratic institutions appear to be unstable in many parts of the world. What are the positions of the rising powers on the defense and promotion of democracy abroad? This article examines Brazil which, like India and South Africa, is a democracy. The conventional wisdom about Brazil is that its foreign policy prioritizes non-intervention, is pragmatic and open to negotiation to everyone, and prioritizes its own economic development as well as the political and economic integration of its own region, South America. Brazil’s efforts to defend and promote democracy are also often depicted as minimal, and far less than those of established powers such as the USA and the EU. This article examines Brazilian policy towards Honduras after the coup d’état there in 2009 to challenge these interpretations. It argues that the Honduras case shows that Braz...
Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais
Public security has become an increasingly important political issue in Brazil since the end of m... more Public security has become an increasingly important political issue in Brazil since the end of military rule in 1985. Increasing levels of violent crime have led to various initiatives to reform the public security system, and especially the police. This article looks at three reforms intended to increase the accountability of the police to the public: police ombudsmen, community policing, and Public Ministry oversight of police investigations. Drawing from research in the Brazilian northeast and national studies, it argues that so far, these reforms have had less impact than expected. This is due in part to organisational characteristics of the police, and specifically their combination of insulation and vulnerability to political manipulation.
Brasiliana- Journal for Brazilian Studies
Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2013
Brasil ha participado de manera importante en el movimiento mundial de los derechos humanos que s... more Brasil ha participado de manera importante en el movimiento mundial de los derechos humanos que se ha producido durante las ultimas decadas. Este pais se ha visto fuertemente influido por las tendencias internacionales y por la comunidad transnacional de derechos humanos. En la decada de los ochenta del pasado siglo, la dictadura militar que gobernaba en Brasil fue reemplazada por un regimen democratico y, desde entonces, se han creado multitud de instituciones formales para la proteccion de los derechos humanos. Sin embargo, estas instituciones solo han cambiado parcialmente las practicas cotidianas. Lo cual puede comprobarse en el ambito de las actuaciones policiales, en el que la violencia arbitraria, la corrupcion y la ineficacia son lugares comunes. En los ultimos anos se han producido importantes esfuerzos para transformar la practica policial; en este terreno, los reformadores tambien se han visto influidos por los acontecimientos internacionales, y han buscado conjugar la preocupacion por la eficacia policial con el respeto de los derechos humanos.
Clio Revista De Pesquisa Historica, Jul 13, 2010
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2015
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1992
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1991
The Journal of Politics, 1993
The Americas, 2005
We live in a paradoxical era. There are more democratic regimes in the world than ever before, bu... more We live in a paradoxical era. There are more democratic regimes in the world than ever before, but this is also a time of deep disillusionment with democracy. The Quality of Democracy contributes to our understanding of this reality in three ways. First, it introduces the conceptual distinction between high and low quality democracy. Second, the book reports in detail on a citizen’s audit in Costa Rica, a country with the reputation for having one of the highest quality democracies in Latin America. Finally, twelve academic specialists comment on both the theoretical assumptions underlying the concept of democratic quality and the citizen audit.
Political Science Quarterly, 2002
Perspectives on Politics, 2004
Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation.
Luso-Brazilian Review, 2006
displaying. In its approach and style the text matches the complexities and nuances of that knowl... more displaying. In its approach and style the text matches the complexities and nuances of that knowledge. The book attests to the longstanding acceptance among educated Brazilians of French culture as the ideal and the norm. Just how conversant they are in general with that culture is another matter, as indicated by the publisher’s selection for the cover illustration of a fi gure from Gustave Caillebotte’s best-known painting, exhibited in 1877—totally out of period and irrelevant to the topic.
Latin American Perspectives, 2000
This issue, like the preceding one (March 2000), is devoted to the study of the causes and conseq... more This issue, like the preceding one (March 2000), is devoted to the study of the causes and consequences of new forms of violence and coercion in the Americas. All but one of the articles (that by Jorge Zaverucha) were originally written for a conference sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation held at the New School for Social Research, New York City, on April 16-17, 1998. The articles in Part 1 dealt with states and militarized forces and the military-police nexus. The four articles in this part address the demilitarization that has taken place in some Latin American states and societies and the trade-offs that this has frequently entailed. A theme of all of these articles is the tension between demilitarization from above and demilitarization from below. This distinction mirrors processes of militarization such as Mexico's (discussed in Part 1), which has occurred as much as a result of local processes "from below" as from elite negotiation. "Fragile Democracy and the Militarization of Public Safety in Brazil," by Jorge Zaverucha, examines the relationship between a preeminently national institution, the military, and police forces organized at the state level. Zaverucha argues that despite the military's tactical concessions to civilian politicians at the level of elite politics, its control over "everyday" security issues on Brazil's streets and in its public spaces is quietly growing. Unlike Angel Lopez-Montiel, who examined the increased use of the military in policing in Mexico in the previous issue, Zaverucha sees the increasing role of the military in police operations as almost entirely negative for democracy. Highlighting some less well-known mechanisms by which the military's role
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