Power, institutions, and leadership in war and peace : lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995/1998 / David R. Mares and David Scott Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mares, David R.

Contributor:

Palmer, David Scott, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundary disputes--Case studies.

Boundary disputes.

Political leadership--Case studies.

Political leadership.

Political leadership--Ecuador.

Political leadership--Peru.

Politics and war--Case studies.

Politics and war.

Politics and war--Ecuador.

Politics and war--Peru.

Ecuador--Boundaries--Peru.

Ecuador.

Peru--Boundaries--Ecuador.

Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three years and the interplay of multiple actors and factors to achieve a definitive peace agreement, thus ending what had been the region's oldest unresolved border dispute. This conflict and its resolution provide insights about other unresolved and/or disputed land and sea boundaries which involve almost every country in the Western Hemisphere. Drawing on extensive field research at the time of the dispute and during its aftermath, including interviews with high-ranking diplomats and military officials, Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace is the first book-length study to relate this complex border dispute and its resolution to broader theories of conflict. The findings emphasize an emerging leadership approach in which individuals are not mere captives of power and institutions. In addition, the authors illuminate an overlap in national and international arenas in shaping effective articulation, perception, and selection of policy. In the “new” democratic Latin America that emerged in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, historical memory remains influential in shaping the context of disputes, in spite of presumed U.S. post–Cold War influence. This study offers important, broader perspectives on a hemisphere still rife with boundary disputes as a rising number of people and products (including arms) pass through these borderlands.

Contents:

Introduction: explaining interstate conflict and boundary disputes in post/Cold War Latin America

Two nations in conflict

Presidential decision making: the institutional and personal context

Domestic politics and the push toward war

The domestic bases for resolution

Hemispheric diplomacy and the politics of a solution

Conclusions: lessons learned, progress achieved, and implications for other boundary disputes

Appendix A. Effective number of parties

Appendix B. Ecuadorean attitudes toward relations with Peru (november 1992)

Appendix C. Polling data on border issues (1994/1996).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-292-73570-7

OCLC:

794672970