Markus Hochmüller
@mhochmueller.bsky.social
Visiting Professor of Political Science @Freie Universität Berlin | Senior Associate & Co-PI Colombian Lessons Project @Global Security Programme, Pembroke College Oxford
75 years ago, Costa Rica abolished its Army. Demilitarization, however, was more of a myth than reality. In NACLA Report, Markus-Michael Müller and I show how hybrid policing based on counterinsurgency shapes security governance in the country until today.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Myth of Demilitarization in Costa Rica
Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 55, No. 4, 2023)
www.tandfonline.com
November 27, 2023 at 11:16 AM
75 years ago, Costa Rica abolished its Army. Demilitarization, however, was more of a myth than reality. In NACLA Report, Markus-Michael Müller and I show how hybrid policing based on counterinsurgency shapes security governance in the country until today.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...