Miguel Angel Centeno
Autor(a) de Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
About the Author
Miguel Angel Centeno is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His Democracy Within Reason (Penn State, 1994; revised edition, 1997) was named an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice.
Obras de Miguel Angel Centeno
Paradoxes of War 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
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Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 95
- Popularidade
- #197,646
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 37
As for why the state has been a relatively weak institution in Latin America, and seldom able to muster the resources and generate the enthusiasm needed to go to war (as opposed to engaging in the suppression of internal enemies), Centeno points out a whole series of starting conditions after the fall of the Spanish empire that retarded state formation. However, the one key point seems to be leadership, as elites were more interested in pursuing their internecine feuds, as opposed to creating strong political movements, which would have meant overcoming the social and racial prejudices of time. With a few exceptions, the mass of potential followers were simply to alien to court in regards to larger poltical projects.… (mais)