First published 1987 by Westview Press, Inc.

How Armed Forces Become Politically Engaged: Civil-Military Relations -- Involvement and Disengagement -- The Regional Contexts -- Bolivia: The Consequences of Partial Revolution -- Ghana: The Roots of Endemic Praetorianism -- Nigeria: The Politics of Military Correction -- Peru: The Limits of the "New Professionalism" -- Colombia: Political Parties and Disengagement -- Cote-D'ivoire: Personal Rule and Civilian Control -- Disengagement and Paths of Change.