Undermining the state from within : the institutional legacies of civil war in Central America / Rachel A. Schwartz.
"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 o...
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| Other title: | Institutional legacies of civil war in Central America |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : undermining the state in civil war
- Theorizing wartime institutional change and survival
- Civil war in Central America
- The wartime institutionalization of customs fraud in Guatemala
- Ordering police violence : extrajudicial killing in wartime Guatemala
- Land and counterinsurgency : rewriting the rules of agrarian reform in Nicaragua
- Transition, peace, and postwar power in Central America
- Guatemala : the persistence of customs fraud
- Guatemala : the persistence of extrajudicial killing
- Nicaragua : chronic instability in postwar institutions
- Conclusion : the institutional legacies of civil war.