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Status
Assistant Professor
Contact
majaskos@nps.edu
Research Interests
Latin American Politics; Comparative Politics; military roles; state-society relations; and theories of organization.
Biography
Maiah Jaskoski joined the Department of National Security Affairs in September 2008.She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and her B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College. Her research has been published in Armed Forces & Society and Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, and is forthcoming in Latin American Politics and Society and Latin American Research Review.
Jaskoski's book manuscript analyzes security missions of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian armies from the 1980s to the present. Drawing on contingency theories of organizations, the study challenges two expectations regarding military behavior: that, being bureaucracies, militaries act so as to maximize their budgets; and that, preferring external defense and, in Latin America, counterinsurgency, above other security missions, militaries will focus more intensely on these more "professional," sovereignty missions than on policing assignments. Contrary to these expectations, the manuscript finds that the Peruvian and Ecuadorian armies have neglected their sovereignty missions at different moments since democratization, even when doing so has meant foregoing resources. Rather than putting professional, lucrative missions first, the two armies have prioritized maintaining predictability for troops on the ground in the most immediate sense.
Recent Publications
"Civilian Control of the Armed Forces in Democratic Latin America: Military Prerogatives, Contestation, and Mission Performance in Peru," Armed Forces & Society (2011). "Ecuador and Peru: Army for Rent, Terms Negotiable," Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies (Spring 2009), 46-49. "Evaluando el control civil en el ámbito político en Latinoamérica: Lecciones del Perú," in Felipe Agüero and Claudio Fuentes, eds., Influencias y resistencias: Militares y poder en América Latina (Santiago: FLACSO Chile and Editorial Catalonia, 2009).
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