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  • Webster's Guide to World Governments: Argentina, featuring President Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner

    Robert Dobbie
    World governments operate on complex infrastructures that vary greatly from country to country. Each system is structured on a number of differing rules and regulations which can be overwhelming. This Cheaters Guide makes sense of the madness and even lays out step by step the detailed intricacies of the Argentinean government.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although ...
  • Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective

    Harold A. Trinkunas
    Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to a successful military coup d'©tat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed forces to follow the orders of elected leaders? And how do emerging democracies gain that control over their military establishments? Harold Trinkunas answers these questions in an examination of Venezuela's transition to democracy following military rule and its attempts to institutionalize civilian control of the military over the past sixty years, a period that included three regime changes.

    Trinkunas first focu...

  • Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

    Gretchen Helmke
    This study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, the central findings of the book contradict the longstanding assumption that only independent judges rule against the government of the day. Set in the context of Argentina, the study uses the tools of positive political theory to explore the conditions under which courts rule against the government. In addition to shedding new light on the dynamics of court-executive relations in Argentina, the stud...
  • The ABC Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

    Robert J. Alexander
    Robert Alexander, a long-time observer of Latin American politics and economics, has been an active correspondent with the key figures of the region for decades. In this volume, he provides interview transcripts and letters from nearly a score of the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. With some of the correspondence and interviews spread over a considerable length of time, the shifting views and attitudes as well as the comments on other key players makes for fascinating insights into the politics of change in Latin America. Beginning with an introduction placing the various presiden...

Who Is The Current President Of Argentina

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    Argentine lawyer, politician, the current President of Argentina. Husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, Argentinas first lady before taking office, following the Isabel Peron in Argentina after the second female president, ...
    SpeedyGgggs: Mercosur Expanding and Forging Closer Links w/a ...
    Venezuelas accession as a full member is also crucial to Mercosurs regional trade expanding to the benefit of full members Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay and associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, the current president of Mercosur, said he would propose amendments to membership rules when Mercosurs council meets Tuesday in Montevideo. Venezuelas accession as a full member has ...