Bibliograph

Undermining the state from within, the institutional legacies of civil war in Central America, Rachel A. Schwartz

Type

Label

Undermining the state from within, the institutional legacies of civil war in Central America, Rachel A. Schwartz

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Undermining the state from within

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1349287802

Responsibility statement

Rachel A. Schwartz

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the institutional legacies of civil war in Central America

Summary

Undermining the State from Within pulls back the curtain on the counterinsurgent state to better understand how conflict dynamics affect state institutions and continue to shape political and economic development in the postwar period. Drawing on unique archival and interview data from war and postwar Central America, this book illuminates how counterinsurgent actors, under the pretext of combatting an insurgent threat, introduce alternative rules within state institutions, which undermine core activities like tax collection, public security provision, and property administration. Moreover, it uncovers how the counterinsurgent elite outmaneuvers governance reforms during democratic transition and peacebuilding to preserve the predatory wartime status quo. In so doing, this book rethinks the relationship between war and state formation, challenges existing scholarly and policy approaches to peacebuilding and post-conflict institutional reform and contributes a new understanding of what civil war leaves behind in an institutional sense.--, Provided by publisher

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

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