{"product_id":"undermining-the-state-from-within-the-institutional-legacies-of-civil-war-in-central-america-paperback-9781009219891","title":"Undermining the State from Within; The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009219891","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUndermining the State from Within\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIlluminates how wartime institutional transformations undermine core state functions with legacies for political and economic development.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel A. Schwartz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009219891, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eUndermining 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Foundations: 1. Introduction: undermining the state in civil war\u003cbr\u003e 2. Theorizing wartime institutional change and survival\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Institutional Origins: 3. Civil war in Central America\u003cbr\u003e 4. The wartime institutionalization of customs fraud in Guatemala\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ordering police violence: extrajudicial Killing in wartime Guatemala\u003cbr\u003e 6. Land and counterinsurgency: rewriting the rules of agrarian reform in Nicaragua\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Institutional Persistence: 7. Transition, peace, and postwar power in Central America\u003cbr\u003e 8. Guatemala: the persistence of customs fraud\u003cbr\u003e 9. Guatemala: the persistence of extrajudicial killing\u003cbr\u003e 10. Nicaragua: chronic instability in postwar institutions\u003cbr\u003e 11. Conclusion: the institutional legacies of civil war\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: list of interviews and archival collections.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Comparative politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Comparative politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Comparative%20politics%20%5BJPB%5D%22\"\u003eJPB\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265405276440,"sku":"9781009219891","price":26.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781009219891i_8b4ecd54-361d-4d6d-81f8-293f9398080e.jpg?v=1696791439","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/undermining-the-state-from-within-the-institutional-legacies-of-civil-war-in-central-america-paperback-9781009219891","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}