Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America [Hardcover]

Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America explores the links between Latin American governments' economic policies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence. Based on the patterns of ten countries, the contributions to this volume trace the remarkable transformation from open ideological conflict to the explosion of social (seemingly apolitical) violence, the upsurge of urban crime, and the confrontations over natural resources and drugs across the region spanning from Mexico to Argentina. The variations in economic success and in conflict prevention and transformation can guide policymakers, development professionals, and activists committed to conflict-sensitive development.Economic Development Patterns and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America; W.Ascher & N.Mirovitskaya Violent Conflict and Unequal Development: The Case of Mexico; J.Teichman The Evolution of Violence: Economic Development and Inter-group Conflict in Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica; G.Arcia Violence and Sectoral Development in Colombia; J.S.Holmes & S.A.Guti?rrez de Pi?eres On the Brink of Violence: Work, Fear, and the State in the Bolivian Regions; W.T.Barndt Sowing Conflict in Venezuela: Political Violence and Economic Policy; D.L.Norden Education Policy and Conflict in Latin America: Lessons from Chile and Venezuela; E.Penner Economic Exclusion and the Shifting Patterns of Violence in Argentina and Brazil; P.Kingstone

In broad terms, this collection is the first I have seen to systematically address the relationship between post-Cold War development patterns and the use of violence in Latin America. This is a difficult topic it was so much easier to address related questions during the Cold War, when a bipolar view of the world was so often superimposed on Latin America. Today, however, two decades after the disappearance of the Soviet Union, we know there are far more than two sides to almost every implÃJ