What you’ll find here
FASOC issues and related texts often circulate across multiple institutional repositories. The same publication may appear as: (1) a full scanned issue PDF, (2) individual article PDFs, or (3) a repository page with a PDF embedded behind a viewer. That duplication is normal for legacy journals. Your job is to download the best-structured file, verify the issue metadata inside the PDF, and store it under a filename that preserves year/issue information.
Recommendation: prefer “full issue” PDFs when you need the official table of contents and consistent pagination; prefer “single article” PDFs when you only need one text and want a smaller file for sharing and annotation.
How to save files so citations don’t break
Use a strict naming convention. If you don’t, you’ll waste time later trying to figure out what you downloaded. A reliable pattern looks like this:
FASOC_YYYY_AnoNN_NoMM_MonthRange_Country(optional)_Repository.pdf
After download, do a 30-second integrity check:
- Open the PDF and confirm the journal title printed on the issue.
- Confirm the year (YYYY), the issue label (Año / Nº), and the month range.
- Check that page numbers are present and consistent (you will need them for quotations).
- If the file is a scan, confirm that pages are not missing or duplicated.
If a repository page uses a viewer, the PDF download button is often hidden behind the viewer menu (usually a “…” control). Don’t assume “no download available” until you check the viewer controls.
Two curated PDFs (enough to start, not a link dump)
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FASOC full issue (scan): Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad - Año 15, Nº 3 (Julio–Septiembre 2000) (PDF)
Best for: citation work that requires the issue’s table of contents, editorial credits, and stable pagination. -
Single article PDF (English): “Police force reform and military participation against delinquency” (2006) (PDF)
Best for: fast reading on the military–police boundary, public security pressures, and reform constraints in Latin America.
Download ethics (yes, it matters)
Don’t “clean up” PDFs in ways that destroy auditability. If you compress, merge, or crop files, keep the original and store your edited version as a derivative. For any public-facing citation, you should be able to point to a stable source and show the exact page where a claim or quote appears. In security studies, sloppy sourcing turns into mythology.