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Homicidal ecologies : illicit economies and complicit states in Latin America / Deborah J. Yashar, Princeton University.
Van Pelt Library HN125.2.V5 Y37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yashar, Deborah J., 1963- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Central America.
- Violence.
- Violence--Political aspects--Central America.
- Civil war--Social aspects--Central America.
- Civil war.
- Crime--Economic aspects--Central America.
- Crime.
- Crime--Economic aspects.
- Violence--Political aspects.
- Central America--Social conditions.
- Central America.
- Social conditions.
- Democratization--Latin America.
- Democratization.
- Latin America.
- Democracy--Latin America.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 418 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Violence in third wave democracies
- Appendix to chapter
- Engaging the theoretical debate and alternative arguments
- The argument about homicidal ecologies
- Illicit economies and territorial enclaves:
- The transnational context and domestic footprint
- State capacity and organizational competition:
- Strategic calculations about territory and violence
- Divergent trajectories in Central America:
- Post-Civil War cases
- Preface
- High violence in post-Civil-War Guatemala
- High violence in post-Civil War El Salvador
- Circumscribing violence in post-civil war Nicaragua
- Looking backwards and forwards
- Concluding with states.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781107178472
- 1107178479
- 9781316629659
- 1316629651
- OCLC:
- 1031049336
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