Of Centaurs and Doves - Guatemala''s Peace Process

This book explains how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involvement, and the stumbling 1990s peace process developed. It raises fundamental questions about the badly misunderstood and much over-hyped 'democratic transition' supposedly occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere in the region.

List of contents

Foreword -- Prologue -- Background: Guatemals’s Thirty-Six-Year Civil War -- The Mined Road to Peace -- The Terms of Peace -- Can Peace Bring Democracy or Social Justice? -- The U.S. Role: The Cold War and Beyond -- Implementation Wars -- High Hopes and Stark Realities: Obstacles to Sustainable Development -- The Hijacking of the Constitutional Reforms -- Conclusion: "Reinvention" or Lost Opportunity? Global, Comparative, and Imaginary Perspectives -- Epilogue

About the author

Susanne Jonas

Summary

This book explains how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involvement, and the stumbling 1990s peace process developed. It raises fundamental questions about the badly misunderstood and much over-hyped 'democratic transition' supposedly occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere in the region.

Product details

• Authors: Marrack Goulding, Susanne Jonas
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.1998
• EAN: 9780813334684
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3468-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Internationale Beziehungen, Guatemala