Rachel A Schwartz

Undermining the State from Within

The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book is for audiences interested in Latin America and the long-term legacies of civil war more generally. Using archives and in-depth interviews, it provides a captivating narrative of how counterinsurgency in Central America distorted government functioning, breeding long-term patterns of corruption and criminality that burden the region today"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781009219891
• ISBN-10: 1009219898
• Artikelnr.: 65954954

Autorenporträt

Rachel A. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction: undermining the state in civil war
2. Theorizing wartime institutional change and survival
Part II. Institutional Origins: 3. Civil war in Central America
4. The wartime institutionalization of customs fraud in Guatemala
5. Ordering police violence: extrajudicial Killing in wartime Guatemala
6. Land and counterinsurgency: rewriting the rules of agrarian reform in Nicaragua
Part III. Institutional Persistence: 7. Transition, peace, and postwar power in Central America
8. Guatemala: the persistence of customs fraud
9. Guatemala: the persistence of extrajudicial killing
10. Nicaragua: chronic instability in postwar institutions
11. Conclusion: the institutional legacies of civil war
Bibliography
Appendix: list of interviews and archival collections.