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  title info:
    title: Latin America and the illusion of peace
  name:
    name part: Mares, David R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 203 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Latin American countries embraced liberal democracy as the antidote to the past ills of military dictatorships, human-rights abuses and extreme poverty. Yet, more than twenty years on, states are still embroiled in armed combat with rebels who export their violence and traffic drugs across borders, threatening to draw neighboring states into conflict with one another. Throughout the region, there is a tendency to supplement diplomatic action with military posturing. As ideological rivalries reassert themselves and competition for resources increases, so does the risk that political confrontation may once again get out of hand and destabilize regional relations. The regional security architecture is not well-suited to controlling these risks, and neither the United States nor rising power Brazil is playing the role of regional mediator. Though few incidents have escalated into war over the last two decades, the shifting regional power balance, together with a rise in authoritarian government and growth in defense spending, give cause for concern. This paper analyzes the sources of inter-state conflict in Latin America and the potential policy options to tackle the region's cycle of instability.
  table of contents: Sources of conflict -- The dynamics of militarisation -- Latin American hot spots -- Preserving the illusion : managing conflict in Latin America.
  note: David R. Mares.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: cl-----
  subject:
    topic: Political stability
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: JL966 .M357 2012
  classification: 303.6/098
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Adelphi (Series) (International Institute for Strategic Studies) ; 429
  identifier: 9780415638463 (paperback)
  identifier: 0415638461 (paperback)
  identifier: 2012429426
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120525
    record change date: 20151203084048.0
    record identifier: in00002852640