Military involvement in Brazilian politics dates back to the origins of the Brazilian Republic itself. Academia and civil society alike are beginning to question the potential implications of these levels of militarization within a democracy, especially in a country still under the shadows of a military regime (1964-1985) and that is seeing an increasing presence of its military in power today.
Scholarship on the Brazilian Military regime, re-democratization, and civil-military relations in Brazil is consolidated and robust. However, there still lacks a multidisciplinary approach to understand the pervasive presence of the military in the Brazilian political arena from a broader perspective. Furthermore, civil-military relations in Brazil have not developed in the same way as in Europe or North America, and the case of Brazil can provide a significant addition to the global debate on the relationship between the military and politics.
