Browsing by Author "Zirker, Daniel"

• The Brazilian military under Cardoso: Overcoming the identity crisis 

  Martins-Filho, Joao R.; Zirker, Daniel (University of Miami, 2000)

  In Brazil, an era of military confusion and dissatisfaction that followed the end of the Cold War has largely dissipated since the mid-1990s. Despite scarce federal resources under current economic policies, the Cardoso ...

• Cablegate and the continuing U.S. penetration of Brazil (Cablegate e a Penetração continuada dos EEUU do Brasil) 

  Zirker, Daniel (Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2015)

  Jan Black outlined the US penetration of Brazilian politics in the 1960s and 1970s, including the linkages with military and business elites, revealing their compromise on national sovereignty. Based on cables released by ...

  

• Clean and green with deepening shadows? a non-complacent view of corruption in New Zealand 

  Gregory, Robert; Zirker, Daniel (2013)

  New Zealand has long been regarded as a country with little or no governmental corruption. In recent times it has been ranked consistently as one of the five least corrupt countries in the world, on Transparency International’s ...

  

• Conclusion 

  Zirker, Daniel (Lexington Books (an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.), 2015)

  Two critical points are highlighted in this examination of what we have chosen to call "quasi-ethnic identities" in military establishments: First, that although the emergence of this phenomenon has been, at best, gradual ...

  

• Defining a US defence diplomacy for Brazil at the beginning of the century 

  Zirker, Daniel (2009)

  At the beginning of the 1990s, the US military was apparently considered to be a significant threat by the Brazilian Armed Forces. Other military establishments in the Hemisphere likewise expressed a lack of confidence, ...

  

• Political parties, strongmen and populism: Why Jair Bolsonaro won the 2018 Brazilian election 

  Tait, Paul James (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  The election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil in 2018 is an example of the recent global phenomenon of election victories by right-wing populist leaders, such as Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, and Viktor Orbán. ...

  

• The rise of homicides on the Baja California Peninsula in 2017: A bloody mess 

  Swain, Alexander (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  The Baja California Peninsula (BCP) is situated in the northwest of Mexico and consists of two major Mexican states, Baja California and Baja California Sur. For decades the peninsula has remained relatively quiet in the ...

  

• The Zapatista rebellion and Mexican reluctance to repress a dissident group 

  Whyte, Hamish (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Mexican dirty wars, the disappearances of thousands, the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre, the 1971 Corpus Christi Massacre, genocidal plans, kidnappings, tortures and mass graves: Mexico has a long and well-documented history of ...

  

• Indonesia’s great power and superpower environment in the post Cold War era: A study of Indonesia’s search for a dynamic regional equilibrium 

  Syofian, Ahmad (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Against the backdrop of regional transformation, during President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) period of office from 2004 – 2014, Indonesian officials have frequently expressed an expectation of a peaceful region through ...

  

• Can Justice be Traded for Democracy? 

  Foxcroft, Debrin (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  For much of the Twentieth Century, the transition processes of democratizing states have followed a familiar pattern. Outgoing authoritarian regimes relinquished power after extracting the promise of amnesty from the ...

  

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