Description: Brett J. Kyle, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, focuses on democracy, human rights, and the military in Latin America.
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I am a teacher and scholar of Latin American politics, authoritarianism and democracy, and civil-military relations.
At the University of Nebraska at Omaha , I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and a faculty member in the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) and the Goldstein Center for Human Rights (GCHR) .
My most recent book, Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy: The Politics of Military Justice (2021), with Andrew G. Reiter , examines military justice systems in democracies around the world. We develop an innovative framework of legal subordination of the armed forces and utilize our newly created dataset of 120 countries over 200+ years to assess the power of military courts to serve as a shield of impunity for military personnel or even as a tool of repression agai