This guide to the politics and recent history of Central America opens with an overview of pacification and democracy in the region. Dunkerley focuses on the causes and consequences of the ending of civil war in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Drawing on a range of local and international sources, the author stresses the variety of means by which peace has been sought and achieved. He also analyzes economic performance, relations with the US, refugee and human rights problems, narcotics and corruption, and the issue of war crimes.

An analysis of the political history of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.

Bolivia is a country with a reputation, writes James Dunkerley. Not so long ago it was for Che Guevara, for whose death its citizens are on occasions held to be collectively responsible. More recently it has been for cocaine. But in general it is for political disorder.
"Rebellion in the Veins"demonstrates that behind the succession of coups lies an exceptional and coherent record of political struggle. The country s location at the heart of Latin America has not, however, guaranteed it the attention it deserves. Dunkerley here redresses the balance in a masterly survey of Bolivian...

This book brings together international relations scholars, political theorists and historians to reflect on the intellectual history of American foreign policy since the late nineteenth century. -- .