Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America

ISBN-13: 9781009219891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 300 str.

Rachel A. (University of Oklahoma) Schwartz

Opis

Illuminates how wartime institutional transformations undermine core state functions with legacies for political and economic development.

Spis treści

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.