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In this chapter, we seek to highlight the limits of the concept of civilian control over the armed forces, tensioning two of its main intersecting lines of normative interpretation: military professionalization and control over domestic missions. In short, there is a current argument in the literature that military professionalism would guarantee non-intervening military behavior, obedient to civil authority. Once this relationship of obedience was ascertained, there would be more significant restrictions on domestic military engagement, ideally reserved for exceptional situations. Our objective is to demonstrate the inaccuracy of this argument, explore the literature, and analyze the Brazilian case in which the professional armed forces are procedurally subordinated to civil authority, formalizing a set of domestic missions as their main activity. To this end, we do not intend to expose Brazil as a rupture with the norm, but rather to understand the construction of the Brazilian professional military and their missions as a response to the production of science and power on the global stage, in addition to the different sociological aspects of the country.

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Limits of Exogenous Analytical Frameworks of Political Control over the Armed Forces in Brazil: Professionalism and Missions

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    2025年

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  • David P Succi Junior,
  • Mariana da Gama Janot,
  • Samuel Alves Soares

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In this chapter, we seek to highlight the limits of the concept of civilian control over the armed forces, tensioning two of its main intersecting lines of normative interpretation: military professionalization and control over domestic missions. In short, there is a current argument in the literature that military professionalism would guarantee non-intervening military behavior, obedient to civil authority. Once this relationship of obedience was ascertained, there would be more significant restrictions on domestic military engagement, ideally reserved for exceptional situations. Our objective is to demonstrate the inaccuracy of this argument, explore the literature, and analyze the Brazilian case in which the professional armed forces are procedurally subordinated to civil authority, formalizing a set of domestic missions as their main activity. To this end, we do not intend to expose Brazil as a rupture with the norm, but rather to understand the construction of the Brazilian professional military and their missions as a response to the production of science and power on the global stage, in addition to the different sociological aspects of the country.