FASOC — English Selection
Selected articles in English on security governance, military roles in public security, and institutional reform in Latin America.
What FASOC is about
The journal’s core lane is the intersection of international relations and defence policy with military–civilian relations. That means: how democracies manage defence institutions; how civilian oversight works in practice; how armed forces modernize, professionalize, and justify their role; and how regional and global security dynamics influence doctrine, procurement, and cooperation.
Typical subjects include defence and security strategy, arms control and disarmament debates, regional security cooperation, civil–military relations, and the political economy of defence (budgets, capability planning, and institutional reform). Many pieces are grounded in case studies, comparative regional analysis, or policy-relevant frameworks.
How to use this archive efficiently
Don’t skim randomly. Use a repeatable workflow:
- Pick a problem: civilian control, defence budgets, peace operations, or regional security architecture.
- Pull a time range: compare early 1990s vs early 2000s vs mid-2000s to see what actually changed.
- Extract claims: note the author’s main argument, evidence type, and what they treat as “given.”
- Cross-check with primary documents: pair journal arguments with official strategy texts or data sources.
- Write a short synthesis: continuity, breaks, and what evidence supports each conclusion.
This approach turns the archive into a research tool instead of a nostalgia museum.
Scope keywords that match how people actually search
- civil–military relations (democratic control, oversight, legitimacy, professionalization)
- defence policy (doctrine, procurement, modernization, military expenditure)
- security governance (institutions, accountability, reforms, coordination)
- regional security (Latin America, hemispheric security, cooperation, disputes)
- international relations (multilateralism, crisis management, strategic competition)
- arms control & disarmament (norms, regimes, confidence-building measures)
Bibliographic essentials for citations
When you cite the journal in academic writing, make sure your reference includes the journal title Revista Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad (often shortened to Rev. fuerzas armadas soc.) and the print ISSN where required. If you’re comparing older issues, note that earlier stages of the publication history are sometimes indexed under a prior title (Defensa y Desarme) before the journal consolidated under the FASOC name.
This matters because library catalogs and indexing services may split records across title changes. A clean citation prevents broken references and makes your bibliography verifiable.
Two solid, no-nonsense PDFs to anchor your reading
If you need fast primary/context documents to support analysis (and not just opinions), start with one global benchmark and one example issue PDF:
- SIPRI Yearbook 2024 - Summary (PDF) (military spending, arms transfers, conflicts, arms control: quick, citeable baseline).
- Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad - Año 15, Nº 3 (2000) (PDF) (a concrete snapshot of how the journal framed defence and society debates at the time).