In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Arnson,Cynthia J. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2012
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780804776677
    Published:
    Washington, DC; Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780804776677;0804776679
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, International relations, South America, Mexico, Central America, Nation-building, Conflict, Democratization, Peace-building, and Civil war
    Notes:
    430 p., Assesses the consequences of civil war for democratization in Latin America, focusing on questions of state capacity. Contributors focus on seven countries: Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru where state weakness fostered conflict and the task of state reconstruction presents multiple challenges. Includes Johanna Mendelson Forman's "An illusory peace: the United Nations and state building in Haiti."

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