New studies on civil-military relations and defense policy in Brazil

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Summary
Civilian Scholars and the Study of Civil-Military Relations and Defense Policy in Brazil’s Unstable Democracy
	Introduction
	FGV, EBAPE, CAPES, and the Study of Civil-Military Relations and Defense Policy
	The Organization of this Volume
	Acknowledgments
	References
Inching Forward: The Evolution of Civilian Control in Contemporary Brazil’s Ministry of Defense
	Introduction
	Literature Review
	About Brazil
	Methodology
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
Peacekeeping and Brazilian strategy in the early 21st century: missed opportunities
	Introduction
	Peacekeeping and Brazil’s place in it
		Peacekeeping: a brief overview
	Brazil and peacekeeping
	Other Brazilian military engagements
	Why participate in peacekeeping?
		Domestic reform
		Supplementation to the defense budget
		International Signaling
	Methodology
	Critique of the framework
	New goals
	MINUSTAH and Brazil’s interests
		International Signaling
			Regional integration and stability
			Enhanced presence in Brazil’s sphere of influence
			Enhancing Brazil’s participation in international decision-making bodies
		Domestic reform
			Transformation of the role and orientation of the armed forces
			International socialization of the armed forces
			Integration of defense and foreign policies
		Supplementation to the defense budget
			A complement to military salaries
			Sustain or complement operational costs of acquiring new equipment
			Attracting young people to the military service
	Brazil’s domestic politics and the legacy of MINUSTAH
	Conclusion
	References
	Websites and databases referenced
	Appendix I – Interviewee profiles
The civil-military politics of indigenous affairs in Brazil (1967-2021)32
	Introduction
	The military and the first governmental indigenous affairs agency in Brazil
	The military, the Amazon region and the National Foundation of the Indian (FUNAI)
	Empirical strategy and data
	The forces driving appointments to FUNAI (1964-1985)
		1.1 Administrations’ ideology under the military regime
		1.2 Social movements pre-democratic transition
			1.2.1 The forces driving appointments to FUNAI (1985-2021)
				1.2.1.1 The military influence and the ideology of the Brazilian president
			1.2.2 Social movements post-democratic transition
	Limitations and Final remarks
	References
Threats, civil-military relations, and inequality: explaining economic development content in the declaratory defense policies of democracies (1998-2012)
	Introduction
	Explaining declaratory the developmental content in declaratory defense policies: a theoretical framework
		The role of external threats
		Civil-military relations in a democracy
		Hypotheses
	Measures, Data and Modeling Strategy
	Results: the determinants of the level of developmentalism of declaratory defense policy
		Illustrating the role of threats: qualitative evidence from Brazil, India and South Africa
			The External Threat Environment
			The “Defense-Development” nexus in declaratory defense policies
	Conclusion
	References
	Appendix
Transparency and Civil-Military Relations: assessing civilian access to military records in Brazil and Mexico (1981-2012)
	Introduction
	Theoretical frame
		Transparency of military records
		Civil-military relations and civilian access to records
		Access to military records and institutional change theory
	Methodological Procedures
	Results
		Brazil
		Mexico
	Military transparency after 2012
	Comparison and discussion
	References
Brazil, Colombia, and the Korean War: small powers’ reasons for joining military coalitions, and what do they gain?
	Small Powers and Big Wars: Making the Decision To Go or Not
	Method and Case Studies
		Brazil in the Korean War
		Colombia in the Korean War
		Discussion
	Small powers after big wars: are they rewarded?
	Methodology and Data
		Results
	Conclusion
	References
Conclusion: Bolsonaro and Beyond: The Future of Defense Studies in Brazil
	Defense and armed forces studies in Brazil’s social sciences
	The output of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa
	Bolsonaro and After
	References
About the Authors