Book review: Iberian military politics: controlling the armedforces during dictatorship and democratisation by José JavierOlivas Osuna

In Iberian Military Politics: Controlling the Armed Forces During Dictatorship and Democratisation , José Javier Olivas Osuna traces the divergent trajectories of civil-military relations in Portugal and Spain from the 1930s to the 1980s. This book offers a convincing challenge to the idea of a shared Iberian pathway through dictatorship and democratisation, finds Alejandro Quiroga.