Peacekeeping and civil–military relations in Uruguay

Diego Esparza, Santiago Arca Henon and Hope Dewell Gentry

Defense & Security Analysis, 2020, vol. 36, issue 3, 314-334

Abstract: There have been over 90,000 UN peacekeepers deployed around the world to 78 peacekeeping operations (PKOs) in over 125 countries since 1948. Some scholars have made the case that these missions have had a positive impact on the relationship between the military and the civilians they work for. However, other scholars have identified a negative impact on civil military relations (CMR). This paper contributes to this debate by investigating how peacekeeping has impacted civil-military relations in Latin America's most prolific contributor to peacekeeping: Uruguay. This paper finds that PKOs in Uruguay have facilitated post-transitions attempts by civilians to build first-generation control, but not second-generation control. Further, PKOs have marginally improved military effectiveness, but we find that they do not improve societal trust in the armed forces.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2020.1790809

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