Models of Modernization and geopolitical changes in Latin America

Abstract

In South America in the 1960s and 1970s the contradictions of economic, social and political structures were deepening. In order to surmount the structural crisis the different political forces, tendencies and governments elaborated various strategies. These attempts aiming at reorganizing the society led to undermining the hegemony of ruling governing block and radical transformation of state apparatus. Progressive and regressi-ve forms of military dictatorship and excepcional states of the new militarism appeared on the continent because of the Brazilian military takeover of April, 1964. Formally these state systems were set up by the institutional takeover of the armed forces. The military governments strove for the total reorganization and modernization of the societies in their all - economic, political and ideological - territories. The study aims at analizing the diffe-rent models of modernization during the past sixty years.

Keywords

• nuevo militarismo
• estado de excepción
• modelos de modernización
• américa del sur
• es-trategias alternativas
• integraciones regionales
• cambios geopolíticos
• new militarism
• exceptional state
• models of modernization
• south america
• alternativ strategies